Briefs / Focus / Spot Ons
- Policy Brief
Arab Mediterranean Youth Migration. Who Wants to Leave, and Why?
The push factors of an economic nature are key behind the phenomenon of Arab Mediterranean youth migration. However, the desire to migrate does not depend on the education level and the (un)employment of the young people.
16 March 2017
- Policy Brief
The Trust Fund for Africa: A Preliminary Assessment
In its attempt to curb irregular immigration the EU has deployed a number of instruments. One of them is the “Trust Fund for Africa”, adopted during the EU-Africa Summit, which took place in Valletta in November 2015.
6 September 2016
- Policy Brief
The Migration Crisis: Issue or Opportunity?
The ongoing refugee crisis is the most acute political and policy challenge the EU and its neighbouring countries have been facing lately. The EU policies have been inadequate in addressing the magnitude of the crisis.
11 April 2016
- Policy Brief
How Can the EU Border be Better Managed?
The attempts by the EU to manage the refugee’s influx have been characterised by the prevalence of a security-based approach, the tendency to put migrants and refugees in the same box, and the prioritisation of border control.
5 April 2016
- Policy Brief
Reconceptualising Sustainable Responses to the Refugee Crisis
An unprecedented number of asylum-seekers crossed the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe in 2015. How can states better understand and respond to the complex realities of forced displacement and migration in the 21st century?
24 February 2016
- Focus
Migraciones entre África subsahariana y Europa. Fábulas, mitos y datos
Los sucesos en las vallas de Ceuta en 2005, la crisis de los Cayucos en 2006, la reciente tragedia de Lampedusa o la situación en Melilla alimentan sin cesar la imagen de unas fronteras débiles y porosas.
2 October 2014
- Focus
El Mediterráneo, puerta cerrada a las migraciones
La respuesta política a nivel europeo a los naufragios pone en evidencia que las únicas herramientas que la UE propone ante la llegada de personas que intentan cruzar el Mediterráneo consisten en aplicar una estricta lógica de control migratorio....
17 December 2013
- Policy Brief
The Migration Impact of North African Revolutions and What it Reveals about Europe
North of the Mediterranean, the dominant media message and the prevailing public perception has been that the migration impact of the North African upheavals has been mainly felt in Europe. This is a deeply flawed perception.
28 July 2011
- Policy Brief
L’immigration en Méditerranée après le conseil Européen des 24 et 24 Juin 2011
Avec le Printemps arabe, l’UE s’est trouvée prise dans une tenaille politico-sécuritaire, obligée de soutenir l’aspiration à la démocratie, mais cherchant à protéger ses frontières contre des arrivées massives de personnes fuyant l’i...
27 July 2011
- Policy Brief
Révolutions arabes et migrations, Schengen face aux accords bilatéraux de contrôle des frontières
Les révolutions survenues sur la rive sud de la Méditerranée en Tunisie et en Libye n’ont pas manqué de susciter des discours alarmistes sur le risque migratoire qu’elles comportaient pour l’Europe.
20 July 2011
- Focus
Moviments humans en l’espai euromediterrani: repercussió de les revoltes
Per tal d’avaluar l’impacte i la repercussió sobre els moviments humans que puguin tenir l’actual onada de revoltes del Maghreb i del Mashreq, es necessari diferenciar els efectes immediats i els canvis que, a mig i llarg termini puguin compor...
8 March 2011