The Mediterranean Sea is the most porous border between Europe and its neighbours and the world’s most dangerous border between countries that are not at war with each other. Three facts emerge: sea routes to Europe are anything but new; places of embarkation and disembarkation have changed in relation to controls; and the risk of dying at sea has considerably increased over the last decade.
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A new Migration Policy Centre (MPC) Policy Brief: "35 years of forced displacement in Iraq: contexualising the ISIS threat, unpacking the movements" by Cameron Thibos (Migration Policy Centre, RSCAS, EUI)
This brief situates the astonishing rise of the group Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham (ISIS) within Iraq’s much larger history of violent displacement. Looking across the past 35 years, it argues that ISIS may be distinct inasmuch as it has taken and held territory from Syria and Iraq, its violence is ‘non-state’, and it espouses a radically retrogressive ideology. But it is neither unique in its level of brutality nor is it an unprecedented threat to the well-being of Iraqi citizens.
A new Migration Policy Institute Europe policy brief "Strengthening refugee protection and meeting challenges: The European Union’s next steps on asylum" by Madeline Garlick
As increasing numbers of asylum seekers and migrants
undertake precarious journeys by land and sea to reach Europe, the
European Union is at a key juncture in its asylum and migration
policy-making cycle. The European Council will convene at the end of
June to agree upon strategic guidelines intended to set the tone and
parameters for future policy-making for the 2014-2020 period in the area
of Justice and Home Affairs.
A new MPC Policy Brief "One million Syrians in Lebanon : a milestone quickly passed" by Cameron Thibos (Migration Policy Centre, RSCAS, EUI)
Lebanon received its one-millionth refugee from Syria on April 3rd, an
event that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
the UN’s refugee agency, called a “devastating milestone.”
Unfortunately, markers such as these only show the distance travelled
but not how far is left to go. This one was quickly passed and there is
still no end in sight.
The new MPC Policy Brief: Ukraine’s key migration challenges and opportunities by the CARIM-East team
In the past twenty years Ukraine’s population decreased. Emigration has
only contributed to the negative population dynamics and also resulted
in the ‘brain drain’, where many specialists whose skills are in global
demand have left Ukraine. Nevertheless, the post-Soviet Ukraine has had
some positive developments in the migration sphere. The government was
able to address several challenges, including creating migration
legislation from scratch, establishing the State Border Guard Service as
well as working with the EU in negotiating, adopting and implementing
the Readmission Agreement. One of the key issues on the EU-Ukraine
agenda concerning migration is an agreement that would allow Ukrainians
to travel for short-term visits to Europe without visas. Researchers do
not expect that such visa-free travel would lead to a substantial
increase in illegal migration. To the contrary, it is expected that a
visa-free regime will stimulate greater tourism and business links
between Ukraine and EU Member States.
The new MPC Policy Brief: The Integration of Migrants in Russia: Why Does Tension Continue to Grow? by the CARIM-East team
During the last 2-3 years, the integration (or rather non-integration)
of migrants has become the burning issue of Russian migration. The
reason has its roots in the growth of inter-ethnic tension and
manifestations of open nationalism, which are in turn the result of
people’s wider discontent with social inequality and administrative
dereliction combined with a crisis in national self-identification.
Ineffective migration management, resulting in wide-scale irregular
migration, exasperates Russian society and fuels social strain.
A new Migration Policy Centre (MPC) Policy Brief: Europe Must Take on its Share of the Syrian Refugee Burden, But How? By Philippe Fargues, Director of the MPC
(http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/29919/20140214-PB-RSCAS_MPC-Syria-web.pdf?sequence=1)