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The use of AI tools in asylum procedures. Quo vadis?
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The use of AI tools in asylum procedures. Quo vadis?

This Brief calls for a rights-based, precautionary approach to AI in asylum procedures, ensuring that digital innovation does not come at the expense of fairness, dignity, or protection.

30 December 2025
The Pact for the Mediterranean: a stimulus for enhanced skills and labour mobility?
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The Pact for the Mediterranean: a stimulus for enhanced skills and labour mobility?

Helena Hahn examines the EU’s Pact for the Mediterranean as a possible framework to boost skills development and labour mobility between the EU and partner countries.

30 December 2025
Securing digital borders: confronting technology-facilitated violence against migrant women in the Euro-Mediterranean
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Securing digital borders: confronting technology-facilitated violence against migrant women in the Euro-Mediterranean

This Policy Brief exposes how digital tools – from messaging apps to social platforms – are increasingly used to target, manipulate, and exploit migrant women across the Euro-Mediterranean.

5 December 2025
Migraciones femeninas internacionales y Derechos Humanos en países de la Unión Europea. Desafíos y aportes para la gobernabilidad democrática
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Migraciones femeninas internacionales y Derechos Humanos en países de la Unión Europea. Desafíos y aportes para la gobernabilidad democrática

Article by Teresa Terrón-Caro on international female migrations and Human Rights

12 March 2025
Muertes en el Mediterráneo. Cuerpos, huellas y afectos
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Muertes en el Mediterráneo. Cuerpos, huellas y afectos

Article by Carolina Kobelinsky on migrant deaths in the Mediterranean.

28 February 2025
Migraciones internacionales y construcción del Mediterráneo. Miradas históricas.
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Migraciones internacionales y construcción del Mediterráneo. Miradas históricas.

Artículo de Virginie Baby-Collin a partir de su conferencia inagural del ciclo Aula Mediterrània 2024-25.

16 January 2025
North African Diaspora in Europe: Asset for Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation
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North African Diaspora in Europe: Asset for Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation

This policy brief explores the evolving dynamics of Euro-Mediterranean relations nearly three decades after the Barcelona Process of 1995. As the EU’s traditional approaches, such as democracy promotion and financial aid, prove insufficient for sus...

15 July 2024
The Refugee Crisis’ Double Standards: Media Framing and the Proliferation of Positive and Negative Narratives During the Ukrainian and Syrian Crises
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The Refugee Crisis’ Double Standards: Media Framing and the Proliferation of Positive and Negative Narratives During the Ukrainian and Syrian Crises

This policy brief examines how media framing of the Ukrainian and Syrian refugee crises affected public opinion and policy-making in the European Union.

20 March 2023
Displaced and Dispersed: Women and Gender Activists from the Arab Middle East and North Africa
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Displaced and Dispersed: Women and Gender Activists from the Arab Middle East and North Africa

Carmen Geha explores the questions of how does the experience of migration impact the lives of women and gender activists, and how can activists in migration contribute constructively to their new surroundings.

2 March 2023
Pushbacks and dispersal as technologies of migration displacement
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Pushbacks and dispersal as technologies of migration displacement

In this article, the author rethinks the notion of displacement by considering dispersal and pushbacks as key spatial governmental tactics of migration governmentality that nowadays are used in a widespread way across Europe.

2 September 2022
A decade of hosting Syrian refugees in Jordan – Lessons learnt for Poland
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A decade of hosting Syrian refugees in Jordan – Lessons learnt for Poland

The present article proposes a set of policy recommendations drawing from the experience of Jordan, translated for use in the Polish context.

2 May 2022
Between Promise and Peril: Digitalised Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
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Between Promise and Peril: Digitalised Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

This Policy Brief offers a panorama of European Union (EU) external migration governance vis-à-vis the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and an overview of risks presented by digitised migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region....

23 March 2022