Migration and asylum
CEPS Staff involved
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Mikkel Barslund is the Head of the Ageing Societies Programme within the Economic Policy Unit.…
Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs unit…
Roberto Cortinovis is a Researcher in the Justice and Home Affairs Unit at CEPS. Prior…
Mattia Di Salvo is a Researcher in the Economic Policy Unit with expertise in migration…
Ngo Chun Luk is Researcher in the Justice and Home Affairs unit at CEPS. He…
Marco Stefan is Research Fellow in the Justice and Home Affairs Unit. He obtained his…
Lina Vosyliute is a Research Fellow in the Justice and Home Affairs unit. Her research…
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Paving the way for future labour migration
A Belgian-Tunisian Skills Mobility Partnership
Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union
Complaint Mechanisms and Access to Justice, 1st Edition
When mobility is not a choice
Problematising asylum seekers’ secondary movements and their criminalisation in the EU
Rethinking EU migration and asylum policies
Managing immigration jointly with countries of origin and transit
The Malta declaration on SAR and relocation
A predictable EU solidarity mechanism?
Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis
Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered
Search and rescue, disembarkation and relocation arrangements in the Mediterranean
Sailing Away from Responsibility?
Policing Humanitarianism
EU Policies Against Human Smuggling and their Impact on Civil Society
The EU’s Role in Implementing the UN Global Compact on Refugees
Contained Mobility vs. International Protection
Fit for purpose?
The Facilitation Directive and the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance to irregular migrants: 2018 update
Some EU governments leaving the UN Global Compact on Migration
A contradiction in terms?
Offshoring Asylum and Migration in Australia, Spain, Tunisia and the US
Lessons learned and feasibility for the EU
Complaint Mechanisms in Border Management and Expulsion Operations in Europe
Effective remedies for victims of human rights violations?
Related Projects
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The ASILE project studies the interactions between emerging international protection systems and the United Nations Global Compact for Refugees (UN…
The ultimate objectives of TRIGGER are to provide EU institutions with knowledge and tools to enhance their actorness, effectiveness and…
EU-CITZEN establishes a new Academic Network on European Citizenship Rights aimed at providing the European Commission with the best independent…
This project will achieve regular collaboration between Europe’s well-developed networks of migration researchers and stakeholders for the purpose of evidence-based…
The Mercator Dialogue on Migration and Asylum (MEDAM) is three-year research and consultation project that aims to identify and close…
The Impact of Euroscepticism in the construction of Europe is a project under the EU program Europe for Citizensinvolving five cities, namely Gijón (Spain), Nüremberg…
The purpose of this grant (ENGAGE project II) is to continue facilitating the participation of representatives from NGOs, Civil Society…
The project unpacked EU crisis response mechanisms, with the aim to increase their conflict sensitivity and efficiency. By combining bottom–up…
There is an emerging change in the role of education and skills in working lives and career trajectories. Increasingly, the…
The aim of the SOURCE Network of Excellence is to create a robust and sustainable virtual centre of excellence capable…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
The Study starts from the 2015 ESPAS Global Trends Report, which identified five global economic and social trends to 2030,…
Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities (TRANSMIC) is a project funded under the FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN call and…
The IPEPS project aims at complementing degree-level programmes led by Universities by enriching the background knowledge that students acquire in…
European air travel has witnessed a tremendous evolution since the late 1990s following the liberalisation process, with many new entrants…
The EU seeks to build a comprehensive immigration policy in which legally residing non-EU nationals, referred to as third-country nationals…
The purpose of this grant was to facilitate the participation of representatives from NGOs, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and think…
OSEPI contributes to bridging the current gap between policy-makers and CSOs by commissioning research exploring the feasibility of ‘outsourcing’ asylum…
This Study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department forCitizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee…
The Study aims to provide the necessary clarity by carrying out an in-depth assessment of the EUTFs and the FRT,…
Border control, surveillance operations and expulsion of irregular immigrants –particularly through return flights –can pose serious challenges to human rights.…
This Study was carried out by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Programme and…
The project examined the ways in which European Union policies aimed at countering the phenomenon of migrant smuggling affect civil…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
The 284 initiatives entered for the 2016 Civil Society Prize competition provide an inspiring set of experiences and successful practices…
EURA-NET is an international research project funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for the period 2014-2017. The objective…
Since its inception in 2003/4, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has attracted the interest of many research analysts across a…
The notion of ‘anti-Gypsyism’ aims to refocus public policies addressing Roma discrimination in order to place responsibility for combating structural,…
The project will contribute to the development of an effective and humanitarian European response to the migration crisis in the…
Skills, labour mobility and Information technology (IT) all rank high on the European policy agenda and feature among the key…
FIDUCIA is a research project that will shed light on a number of distinctively “new European” criminal behaviours that have…
ILEC was a two-year research project co-funded by the European Commission’s DG Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights which aimed to…
In March 2017, the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union, effectively starting the process…