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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Marking Trends-Refuge and Migrations

The workshop serves to provide answers to the needs of the group of migrants and refugees in our cities.

 17 June 2021

Beyond Networks, Militias, and Tribes: Rethinking the EU’s Counter-Smuggling Policy and Response

The event reflects cri­tically on the actions and instruments the EU has deployed to counter mi­grant smuggling, and proposes what should be done differently under the forthcoming term.

 25 May 2021

BEYOND NETWORKS, MILITIAS, AND TRIBES: Rethinking the EU’s Counter-Smuggling Policy and Response

This public debate weighs the future of EU counter-smuggling policies against evidence and data on the realities of smuggling in North Africa and the Sahel.

 18 May 2021

Beyond Networks, Militias and Tribes: Rethinking EU Counter-Smuggling Policy and Response

The EU’s stated commitment to counter the negative impacts of migrant smuggling activities constitutes an opportunity to rethink the traditional approaches to smuggling.

 11 May 2021

Capturing Irregular Migration by a Macro-Sociological Lens: 12 Steps Process from and through North Africa to Europe

Irregular migration is a complex phenomenon on which each country develops its vision. A change of perspective can displace all narratives to turn irregular migrations into regular ones and, therefore, provide policies to “leave no one behind”.

 6 May 2021

Canarias: gestión local y de emergencia para unos flujos migratorios entre continentes

Priorizar el retorno y reforzar el control fronterizo y los acuerdos de cooperación no evitará que la crisis migratoria se repita..

 29 April 2021

Sea Rescue and International Protection: Towards a New Legal Framework Based on the European Pact on Migration and Asylum?

Joana Abrisketa, analyses the legal tensions that may occur when a ship is rescuing a group of migrants at sea and reflects on the recent European Pact on Migration and Asylum (2020).

 18 March 2021

Mediterranean Migration Governance: Looking at New Policy Paths

Strategies to address Euro-Mediterranean migration have been predominantly directed from a European and state-focused point of view. Carmen Geha and Gemma Aubarell discuss new paths of multilevel governance.

 11 March 2021

Integration and Transnationalism in a Comparative Perspective: the Case of Albanian Immigrants in Vienna and Athens

Using the comparative study of the integration model of Albanian migrants in Vienna and Athens, Eda Gemi (New York University of Tirana) explains the weight and the connections between integration and transnationalism.

 28 January 2021

Socioeconomic Impact of Operations in the Mediterranean

The port of Barcelona presents an innovative strategy that makes it the main Euro-Mediterranean logistics hub. Santiago García-Milà presents the role of the port, a service infrastructure that is directed to a wide hinterland.

 14 January 2021

Human Movements in the Mediterranean in the Era of Globalisation and Interculturality

In the times in which we live, movements of people in the Mediterranean are one of the aspects that have most impact on our societies, an impact that only increases with time.

 29 November 2020

EU Borders and African Mobility

A new Pact on Migration and Asylum is a key objective of the new Commission. This is yet another attempt to find an agreement on two questions that European policymakers have been debating since 1995.

 6 October 2020