Migration & Mobility

The European Pact on Asylum and Migration: An Existential Challenge?

The European Pact on Asylum and Migration: An Existential Challenge?

The Pact cannot be described as “a fresh start,” but can rather be considered a continuation of European asylum and immigration policies over the past 20 years.

 28 June 2024
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Irregular migration in the Mediterranean: border policies and gender spaces

Lecture by Sebnem Koser Akçapar, Full Professor in Sociology at Ankara Social Sciences University, on irregular migration.

 2 February 2023
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Mediterranean Cities and Migration Governance

The international symposium "Mediterranean Cities and Migration Governance" is held in Barcelona organised by the EUMedMi project with the collaboration of the IEMed.

 21 October 2022

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

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: A Comparative Perspective on Maghreb Countries Migration Cooperation with their West African Neighbours

This paper analyses the migration and mobility cooperation in the Mediterranean region in the framework of the Joint Vision that the EU and the AU commited to and the EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum.

 16 June 2022

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

The EU Non-Rescue Strategy for the Mediterranean: Death as Means of Border Control

Conference by Violeta Moreno-Lax, reader in Communitarian Law, Queen Mary University of London, and expert in European Migration Law and introduced by David Moya, associate professor in Constitutional Law and co-coordinator of the Master’s degree,...

 21 April 2022

From a Fragmented Cooperation to an Integrated Approach – The Emergence of the Maghreb and Sahel Region and its Consequences for the European Union

This paper present the concept of a Maghreb-Sahel regional security complex, a region which gains relevance due to the four key challenges it poses: human smuggling and irregular migration flows, regional conflicts and the presence Jihadist groups.

 30 March 2022

Developing EU Trade Incentives: A Support Tool for Refugee Self-Reliance and Host Community Resilience in Turkey

This paper explores how trade facilitation can become a way of supporting sustainable self-reliance for migrants and refugees by analysing their situation in Turkey.

 28 March 2022

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