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Welcome to the fifth Migration Newsletter. Since migration is rapidly evolving, knowledge needs to be constantly updated and shared with policymakers, key actors and relevant stakeholders. Moreover, because it is a global phenomenon, its study requires innovative cooperation between scholars around the world.
The Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute (EUI) responds to the above mentioned strategic need. Namely, the MPC as a research centre on migration can mobilise the best expertise available in Europe, in migrants’ countries of origins, and, indeed, from the worldwide scientific community. It sets out to bridge the gap between research and policy-making by: producing policy-oriented research, pooling scholars, experts and thinkers,offering a venue for discussion.
Click here to access the Migration Policy Centre Website
The projects carried out at the MPC span the different facets, characterising migration phenomena. More specifically, contributing to understand how migration can result in progress at both ends (in source and host countries) is a common feature of all research conducted by the MPC.
Up to now, the research projects within the MPC are:
- CARIM: Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration
- METOIKOS: Circular migration in Southern and Central Eastern Europe – Challenges and opportunities
- Improving EU and US Immigration Systems' Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges: Learning from experiences
- Scientific Working Group on India-EU Mobility Cooperation
- Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe (ACCEPT
- Mediterranean 2030
Already concluded:
- MIREM: Migration de Retour vers le Maghreb
- Labour Markets Performance and Migration in Arab Mediterranean Countries
CARIM, with the aim of spurring research-based decision making and action, releases periodically the Migration Country Profiles. They focus on the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean as well as Sub-Saharan countries. Migration dynamics are analysed under three complementary perspectives: demographic, economic, legal and sociopolitical.
Following the Country Migration Profiles on Morocco, Lebanon, Mauritania, Egypt the fifth one focuses on Mali. The next will be devoted to Tunisia.
Click here to consult the English version of Mali's migration profile
Click here to consult the French version of Mali's migration profile
The study on ‘Labour Markets Performance and migration flows in Arab Mediterranean countries: determinants and effects’ has been recently published. This study, which analyses the key labour market determinants of migration flows from selected Arab Mediterranean Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and the Occupied Palestinian Territories) finds that employment in AMCs is a major challenge for the region – and for Europe – in the next 10 to 15 years.
Click here to access the whole study
The four best essays awarded in the last edition of the Summer School on “Euro-Mediterranean Migration and Development” are now available on the CARIM website.
Click here to access the research papers
Forthcoming events
CARIM Summer School on ‘Euro Mediterranean Migration and Development’
The Summer School on ‘Euro-Mediterranean Migration and Development’, taking place in Florence from 21st June until 2nd July, offers post-graduate students and professionals a high-level training in the field of migration studies, focusing particularly on the area formed by Europe and the countries to the South and East of the Mediterranean. The School analyses the various interactions between migration and development of both the regions of origin and those of destination; migration policies and the regulation of migration; and integration processes. Research work will accompany teaching activities.
Thank you for the great interest shown; the selection of the candidates has been completed. More detailed information will be displayed, soon, on CARIM website.
Click here to read more about the CARIM Summer School
The Third Meeting of the Scientific Working Group on India-EU
On 17th and 18th June in Brussels it will be held the Third Meeting of the Scientific Working Group on India-EU focusing on the following topics: Highly-Skilled Migration from India to the EU, Governance and Labour Migration- India Migration Report 2010, Irregular migration from India to the EU, Research priorities to advance the EU-India dialogue on migration.
Recent events
First meeting of METOIKOS
The first meeting of METOIKOS took place in Florence on 29-30 April 2010.Overall the discussion and background reports presented at the meeting showed that circular migration is an elusive concept because it covers very different type of phenomena. The question remains therefore open (and will be tackled through the extensive fieldwork now undertaken by the METOIKOS research teams) whether circular migration involves something distinct from temporary, seasonal migration, and whether it can be regulated by bilateral schemes and incentives provided by destination to origin countries with regard to re-integration measures aimed at the circular migrants when they are back home.
Click here to access the documents discussed during the METOIKOS Meeting
New demo-eco datasets
The demographic and economic database is constantly being updated with datasets containing information on all of the countries covered by CARIM. The following datasets are examples of recent updates:
Click here to access more datasets in the Demo-Eco database
New legal texts
New legal texts and documents are regularly added to the website for each of the countries covered by CARIM. The following texts are examples of recent updates:
Click here to access more legal texts
New socio-political texts
Different socio-political texts are continuously added to the database for each of the countries covered by CARIM. The following texts are examples of recent updates:
Click here to access more socio-political texts
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