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The database contains links to existing academic and non-academic research and analysis, as well as data sources related to irregular migration to Europe. You can search the database using your own search terms, or filter the results by relevant country, region, date of publication, etc. using the drop-down menus on the left. Authors of relevant research and analysis are invited to submit their own content for review and inclusion by email to: gmdac@iom.int
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‘When I look at this van, it’s not only a van’: Symbolic objects in the policing of Migration
Vivien Lowndes, Roda Madziva
1 November, 2016
The ‘Go Home Van’ was the centrepiece of the UK government’s 2013 immigration enforcement campaign.
Immigration, Interpretivist Policy analysis, Irregular migration -
International Refugee Protection and European Responses
Martin Wagner & Albert Kraler
1 November, 2016
The purpose of the Vienna Migration Conference (VMC) is to take stock of the developments in the area of migration and migration policy in the previous year and to discuss the most burning issues i
Refugee, Protection, European Union, Policy -
Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base
1 November, 2016
Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base presents a unique review of what is being collected and what can be done to further build the evidence base on mig
Smuggling, Forced Displacement, Trafficking in persons, Vulnerable Groups, Gender, Women, Child migration -
Suspended Lives: Undocumented Migrants’ Everyday Worlds and the Making of ‘Illegality’ Between Morocco and Italy
Laura Menin
26 October, 2016
This chapter explores the existential and embodied experience of border(ing) by focusing on the trials and tribulations of Abdelkrim, a young Moroccan man in his late 20s.
Border regimes, neoliberal economic policies, underground Economy, Security and legality -
Integration against the state: Irregular migrants’ agency between deportation and regularisation in the United Kingdom
Reinhard Schweitzer
4 October, 2016
Reducing the number of foreigners residing unlawfully within the borders of a state requires either their removal or the legalisation of their presence within the territory.
Deportation, Integration, Irregular migrantion, Migrant Agency, Regularisation -
The Refugee Crisis: destabilizing and restabilizing European borders
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen
1 October, 2016
Drawing on fieldwork among irregular migrants in Norway, this article examines how borders are constructed, reproduced and contested by a variety of actors, using techniques, institutions, laws, po
Irregular migration, Borders, Mobility -
This is Who We Are: Afghan UASC Refugees in Sweden
1 October, 2016
A study of the profile, experiences and reasons for flight of unaccompanied or separated children from Afghanistan seeking asylum in Sweden in 2015.
Asylum, Children, Migrant well-being, Push-pull factors, Transit -
UNHCR: Europe's Refugee Emergency Response Update #30, Aug 2016
1 October, 2016
Covers key data and situations relating to the current situation, gives updates on acheivements and identified needs, covers some financial information.
Asylum, Border management, Economy, Policy -
Italy and the Security in the Mediterranean
Alessandro Marrone, Michele Nones
1 October, 2016
Covers "The Trajectory of the Crises in the Mediterranean", "Italy in the Meditteranean: Commercial Challenges, Changing Infrastructure and New Maritime Traffic", and more.
Migration, Push-pull factors -
Mediterranean Migration: Race against time
1 October, 2016
The article reports on migration of people from Libya to Europe, as of October 2016, and presents comments from Abdel Hamid al-Souei of Libya's Red Crescent regarding role of weather in enhanc
Climate Change, Drivers, Flows -
EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management: Political Cultures, Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives
Alice Bellagamba, Paolo Gaibazzi, Stephan Dünnwald
1 October, 2016
This volume traces the African ramifications of Europe’s southern border.
Asylum, Border management, Economy, Policy -
Key migration issues: One year on from initial reporting
1 October, 2016
Over the past year, responses to the migration situation in the European Union (EU) have directly affected several fundamental rights referred to in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the Europea
Children, Crime, Migrant well-being, Migration, Policy, Xenophobia, Human Rights -
Lampedusa and the Migrant Crisis: Ethics, Representation and History
Tony Kushner
1 October, 2016
The small Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean has become notorious in the early twenty-first century through a series of migrant disasters which, until the events of 2015, came to typi
Migrants death -
FRONTEX: Western Balkans Quarterly, Q2: Apr–Jun 2016
1 October, 2016
The Western Balkans Quarterly is focused on quarterly developments as reflected by the seven key indicators of irregular migration: (1) detections of illegal border-crossing between BCPs, (2) detec
Border management, Irregular migration, Policy, Smuggling, Transit -
From hell to heaven? Trajectories of illegal migrants in Italy
Manuela Stranges, François-Charles Wolff
1 October, 2016
This paper investigates the trajectories of illegal migrants in Italy using unique individual data stemming from a centre for reception of Refugees and Asylum seekers located in the southern region
illegal migrants, Refugees, Asylum seekers, administrative data -
Sentiment Analysis of Media in German on the Refugee Crisis in Europe
Gayane Shalunts, Gerhard Backfried
1 October, 2016
Since the summer of 2015, the refugee crisis in Europe has grown to be one of the biggest challenges Europe has faced since WW2.
Humanitarian assistance, Populism, Xenophobia, Social Cohesion, Media, Refugee -
The inversion of accountability
Frances Webber
1 October, 2016
In this wide-ranging survey of recent UK government pronouncements, policies and new legislation relating particularly – but not limited – to ‘Security’, Migration and Refugee issues, the author ex
Asylum, Channel, Counter, Radicalisation, Human Rights, Irregular migration, Police, Prevent, Third Sector -
Migration, public health and human rights
Michael Knipper
1 October, 2016
What is the meaning of the “human right to health” in the light of the European refugee reception crisis?
Migrants death, Health, Human Rights -
Frontex’ Fundamental Rights Ambiguities: Conflicting Political Objectives and the Implications of an Increased Budget for Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean - Masters thesis Political Science
Roos Margaux Beek
1 October, 2016
Thesis: Conflicting Political Objectives and the Implications of an Increased Budget for Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean
Migrants death, Economy, Humanitarian assistance, Policy, Human Rights -
Changes in Malta's Migration and Asylum Policies after EU Membership
Berta Fernandez
30 September, 2016
This paper provides an overview of the main challenges and accomplishments of Malta since it joined the EU in 2004 in migration and asylum related issues.
Solidarity, Detention, Irregular migration, Resettlement, Schengen Agreement and Convention, Trafficking in persons, Labour migration, FRONTEX
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Research & Analysis
More than 800 recent papers, reports, articles and opinion pieces on irregular migration in the region.
