Rethinking Migration Policies includes
all the contributions of the HMI World Congress

The EIMed has published the book "Rethinking Migration Policies. Ideas, proposals and experiences from the World Congress Human Movements and Immigration" as a result of the HMI Congress. This English version has the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). (See contents of the book)

With the will of the HMI Congress to suggest ideas for the management of the migration, a book has been elaborated with the aim to spread, propose and activate. It includes the great amount and variety of participation and the diversity of formats of the speeches given during the Congress. It is not the publication of the Congress’ acts with academic vocation or simply analytical vocation, but a book that tries to contribute in the continuation of the debate that the HMI Congress represented: to divulge a positive image of migration, to tackle the analysis of the complexity in the management of migration and to make proposals to improve this management.


The book presents its contents in two axes. On the one hand, the representatives papers of the implied institutions and high level experts in the international migrations scope, that has allowed to gather the most excellent and paradigmatic ideas of the speakers. On the other hand, the contribution of the organizer equipment of HMI Congress and which has published, updated and structured the book contents according the aspects that the migrations analysis carries. Along those lines, the content of the publication is divided in three great scopes: a) the challenges that lack to assume in migrations matter and give title to different chapters, b) the performance proposals, come from the governments or the civil society actors, and c) the experiences presented in HMI Congress.

Finally, the conclusions of the book want to be a reflection of those of the Congress, tackling the main subjects and problems identified during the congress, as well as the measures and institutions proposed to face them. It also summarizes the conclusions and proposals established by the Contents Committee (made up by the International Committee and the Scientific Advisory Committee) in the meetings held before, during and after the Congress.