Migration & Mobility

A Renewed Migration Contract Post-Covid: What Next for Migration Governance in the Mediterranean?

A Renewed Migration Contract Post-Covid: What Next for Migration Governance in the Mediterranean?

2020 has seen not only a fundamental disruption to mobility and migration due to Covid-19, but also the acceleration of ongoing processes and pushing forward with policy pathways that existed before the pandemic in the Euromed region.

 24 September 2020
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EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2023: “From the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership to a Euro-Mediterranean Geostrategic Alliance”

“From the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership to a Euro-Mediterranean Geostrategic Alliance” was the theme of the EuroMeSCo Annual Conference which took place at the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation in Madrid on 1...

 20 November 2023

Business Platform 2023: The Global Gateway, a New Paradigm for Relations between the European Union and its Partners in the Mediterranean and Beyond

The EU’s ‘Global Gateway’ connectivity strategy has become a flagship of EU’s global agenda. It is also likely to impose itself as a distinct cooperation paradigm in Euro-Mediterranean relations. The EuroMeSCo Business Platform will offer a u...

 20 November 2023

Las devoluciones en caliente de inmigrantes en las fronteras de Ceuta y Melilla con Marruecos

Este artículo Aula Med analiza las deficiencias que presenta la política migratoria hispano-marroquí, en relación con la práctica de las devoluciones en caliente en las fronteras de Ceuta y de Melilla.

 20 June 2023

Irregular Migration in the Mediterranean: Border Politics and Gendered Spaces

An AulaMed article on migration narratives and the persistence of the irregular migration problem; conceptualization of borders and boundaries; and borders as gendered spaces.

 30 May 2023

Cooperation on Readmission in the Euro-Mediterranean Area and Beyond: Lessons Learned and Unlearned

This joint policy study examines the European Union’s (EU) readmission system in the context of the Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-African regions and its impact on interstate cooperation, human rights observance, and migrants’ conditions.

 27 April 2023

No hay ojos en el mar. El papel de las ONG en la cobertura mediática de los flujos de inmigrantes y las relaciones con los medios mainstream

Third prize in the Best Master's Dissertations 2020-2021 awards organized by the Aula Mediterrània Program

 21 March 2023

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

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

The Impact of Covid-19 on Migrants’ Remittances in the Mediterranean – Evidence from Libya and Tunisia

The author analyses how the Covid-19 has impacted migrants' remittances in the Mediterranan analysing the cases of Libya and Tunisia

 17 October 2022

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

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

The EU-Southern Neighbourhood Relationship in Transition: From ‘Closed’ to Semi-Open Borders in the Mediterranean?

The article analises the European Union's migration policy and its relationship with the Southern Neighbourhood on border control.

 22 June 2022