Briefs / Focus / Spot Ons
- Policy Brief
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
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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
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Buying Morocco’s collaboration in migration containment? Complicating the use of aid in border control cooperation
This article analyses how local and national authorities respond differently to aid budgets related to migration depending on how they fit their national and domestic political priorities, showcasing responses ranging from collaboration to outright h...
6 September 2022
- Focus
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
- Spot On
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
- Policy Brief
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
- Policy Brief
The Twin Transition and the Future of Labour Migration in the Mediterranean. Three Assumptions to the Test
This policy brief examines how the EU is undergoing a digital and green transition that will result in the need to reshape the labour markets. It also offers recommendations to policy makers in Europe and its Southern Neighbourhood.
22 March 2022
- Policy Brief
Big Data at the Crossroads: Seizing the Potential of Big Data to Guide the Future of EU Migration Policy
This policy brief assesses the opportunities presented by the use of big data to improve the analysis of migration-related phenomena and inform migration and integration policies.
15 February 2022
- Policy Brief
The Role of Non-State Actors in Digitised Migration Management. The Impacts and Limits of Digitalisation on the EU’s Externalised Migration Control in the Mediterranean
This Policy Brief provides recommendations on how to avoid side effects of digitalisation in the field of migration management for EU policy-makers.
8 February 2022
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Diaspora, Transnationalism, Political Remittances and Lebanese Migrants
Diasporic relations and issues are transnational in character but they assume different characteristics. The space of activities involving diasporic relations and issues spreads across national borders.
27 January 2022
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Rescate en el mar y protección internacional: ¿hacia un nuevo marco legal a través del pacto europeo sobre la migración y el asilo?
Los Estados del Mediterráneo —España, Grecia, Italia y Malta— se enfrentan al desafío de responder a la llegada de migrantes y solicitantes de protección internacional que llegan por mar, y de gestionar centros de acogida superpoblados, y de...
12 November 2021
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La construcción de la frontera vertical. El caso de Marruecos
La gobernanza de la UE está protagonizando, en lo que a tránsito de sujetos se refiere, una política de cierre fronterizo. Paradójicamente no sucede lo mismo con el tránsito de mercancías, bienes y capitales.
15 June 2020