Asylum, immigration, free movement of people

IOM - Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Measuring Progress

Migration can be a powerful driver for sustainable development and is recognized as a cross-cutting issue throughout the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report presents and assesses trends on migration across selected goals, and d (...)

Experts Council on Integration and Migration - "No More Morias ? Origins, challenges and prospects of the hotspots on the Greek islands"

The refugee camps on the Greek islands have long been overcrowded; residents are subject to precarious and insecure living conditions and lack basic services. Asylum and return procedures in the so-called hotspots are slow. The Policy Brief by the Sc (...)

Migrations en questions - Key figures on migration

This document is based on key figures from various reports published by International, European and national institutions and agencies. It is obviously not exhaustive and its main objective is to offer an overview of the migration phenomenon on a glo (...)

Defending migrants’ rights in the context of detention and deportation

By Alix Loubeyre and Maïté Fernandez

Over the past years, political pressure to detain and deport more migrants has led to more case law that challenges the legality of various aspects in the forced removal procedure, including the legality of detention decisions. Civil society has a si (...)

The human displacement challenge - Understanding and framing our response to refugees and asylum seekers

By Paris Aristotle

Speech given by Paris Aristotle during the "1st Australia and New Zealand Refugee Trauma and Recovery Conference - 29/31 March 2017 - Sydney (Australia)

Free movement of Europeans - Taking stock of a misunderstood right

Martina Menghi & Jérôme Quéré (foreword by António Vitorino)

The free movement of persons within the European Union is often the subject of debate. Preconceived ideas are deeply rooted in the collective imagination, such as the Polish plumber exploiting the directive on posted workers, or poor citizens who exe (...)

Better Protecting Refugees in the EU and Globally

UNHCR

The European Union (EU) needs a bold, imaginative and workable approach to overcome fragmentation and manage refugee movements effectively in accordance with international law. This paper from the UNHCR provides a vision for how this could be achieve (...)

Improving the Responses to the Migration and Refugee Crisis in Europe

In the framework of the Vision Europe Summit on "Improving the Responses to the Migration and Refugee Crisis in Europe", several authors have contributed to the debate in proposing responses and solutions to address the current migratory and refugee (...)

The Schengen area in crisis - the temptation of reinstalling borders

Yves Pascouau

For the Schengen cooperation 2015 was to herald its 30th anniversary, a symbolic stage in its development. As a sign of history this anniversary coincided, give or take a few days, with the start of Luxembourg's six-monthly presidency of the Council (...)

Measures and rules developed in the EU member states regarding integration of third country nationals - Comparative Report

By Yves Pascouau

This report, entitled ‘Measures and rules developed in the EU Member States regarding integration of third county nationals’ provides a detailed comparative analysis of integration measures and schemes established in 27 member states and Norway, in t (...)