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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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EU Asylum Policies: The Power of Strong Regulating States
Natascha Zaun
11 January, 2017
This book fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of the refugee crisis by analyzing the dynamics that lie behind fifteen years of asylum policies in the European Union.
Policy, Quota, Asylum, Admission, Border management, Cooperation, Politics -
IOM News: Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Top 363,348 in 2016; Deaths at Sea: 5,079
6 January, 2017
IOM on Friday (06/01) reported preliminary totals for all 2016 migrant and refugee arrivals to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea, as well as estimated fatalities.
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Punitive inclusion: The political Economy of irregular migration in the margins of Europe
Leonidas K. Cheliotis
2 January, 2017
Focusing on the treatment irregular migrants have received in Greece since the early 1990s, this article seeks to advance critical scholarship on how European countries have responded to Migration
Inclusion, Irregular migration, Labour exploitation, Violence -
Beyond Irregular Migration Governance: Zooming in on Migrants’ Agency
Anna Triandafyllidou
1 January, 2017
The loss of over a thousand human lives in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean during April 2015 has once again drawn Media and political attention to the challenges that the European Union face
Irregular migration, Beyond irregular, Governance of migration -
The Role of Migration-Specific and Migration Relevant Policies in Migrant Decision-Making in Transit
Katie Kuschminder, Khalid Koser
1 January, 2017
This paper examines the role of Migration-specific and Migration-relevant policies in migrant decisionmaking factors for onwards Migration or stay in Greece and Turkey.
Migration policies, Transit migration, Irregular migration -
Clashing Cartographies, Migrating Maps: The Politics of Mobility at the External Borders of E.U.rope
Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani
1 January, 2017
The generative power of Mapping speaks to the material effects produced by maps and their capacity to order particular social and spatial relations.
Counter, Mapping, Borders, Migration routes, Surveillance, Activism -
Smuggling of Migrants as an Influential Factor on National Security, Economic and Social Life
Jordan Georgiev Deliversky
1 January, 2017
Human Trafficking and Smuggling of migrants are criminal activities, which are on the rise over recent years.
Corruption, Migration, Security, Smuggling -
Emptying the sea with a spoon? Non-governmental providers of migrants search and rescue in the Mediterranean
Eugenio Cusumano
1 January, 2017
In 2015 and 2016, 1,200,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean into Europe. At least 6000 went missing at sea.
NGOs, Humanitarian assistance, Search and rescue (SAR) -
"You are welcome in Portugal”: Conviction and convenience in framing today’s Portuguese politics on European burden sharing of refugees
Costa Paulo Manuel, Sousa Lúcio
1 January, 2017
Historically-speaking, Portugal is a country that has received a very small number of applications from asylum seekers and resettled refugees.
Policy, Humanitarian assistance, Human Rights, Politics -
Challenges for Africa-EU relations in 2017: Matching Means to prioirities
James Mackie, Matthias Deneckere and Greta Galeazzi
1 January, 2017
ECDPM’s annual Challenges Paper seeks to identify important debates that can be expected in 2017 and beyond and to sketch the backdrop against which these will unfold.
Cooperation, Policy, Politics, terrorism, Brexit -
Nonrecording the “European Refugee Crisis” in Greece Navigating through irregular bureaucracy
Katerina Rozakou
1 January, 2017
This article explores nonrecording on the borders of Europe during the “European Refugee Crisis” in 2015. It examines the ambiguous practices of border control and the diverse actors involved.
Borders, Bureaucracy, “European Refugee Crisis, ”the state -
Trafficking and Syrian Refugee Smuggling: Evidence from the Balkan Route
Danilo Mandi?
1 January, 2017
As of March 2016, 4.8 million Syrian Refugees were scattered in two dozen countries by the civil war.
Smuggling, Trafficking in persons, Asylum, Balkan route, Forced migration, Refugee -
Boat Arrivals and the “Threat” to Italian National Security: Between a “Moral Panic” Approach and the EU's Failure to Create a Cohesive Asylum-Seeking Policy
Riccardo Armillei
1 January, 2017
Italy is increasingly a major destination for Asylum seekers arriving by boat.
Asylum, Boat people, Moral panic -
Non-Refoulement and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: State Sovereignty and Migration Controls at Sea in the European Context
Seunghwan Kim
1 January, 2017
The principle of non-refoulement found in the UN Convention on the Status of Refugees has been widely regarded as the core element of the international Refugee Protection regime.
Human Rights, Extraterritorial jurisdiction, Migration controls at sea, Non-refoulement, Refugee law, Refugee -
Women, Migration, and Prostitution in Europe: Not a Sex Work Story
Zobnina, Anna
1 January, 2017
Since the onset of the most recent humanitarian crisis, nearly one million refugees have been granted asylum in Europe.
Migration trends, Women, Policy, Refugee, Human Rights, Safety, Asylum -
Framing Migration and the process of crimmigration: A systematic analysis of the media representation of unauthorized immigrants in Netherlands
Jelmer Brouwer, Maartje van der Woude, Joanne van der Leun.
1 January, 2017
In this article we examine whether the proposal to criminalize illegal stay in Netherlands was preceded by increased negative Media attention for unauthorized immigrants.
Irregular migration, Criminalization, Imigration, Media -
The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Right to Health of Irregular Migrants, as Reflected in the Jurisprudence of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Stefano Angeleri
1 January, 2017
In response to the global financial and economic Crisis, which began almost a decade ago, many European countries have adopted austerity measures aimed at curtailing public expenditure, which have
Health, Right to Health, Core obligations, Discrimination, Vulnerable, Irregular migration, Crisis -
The Indefinite Detention of Undesirable and Unreturnable Third-Country Nationals in Greece
Eleni Koutsouraki
1 January, 2017
This article critically examines the use of immigration detention as a national response to the problem of “undesirable” – for public order and/or national Security reasons – but unreturnable undoc
Undocumented, Detention, Irregular migration -
A Crisis of Protection and safe passage:violence experienced by migrants/Refugees travelling along the Western Balkan corridor to Northern Europe
Jovana Arsenijevi?, Erin Schillberg, Aurelie Ponthieu, Lucio Malvisi, Waeil A. Elrahman Ahmed, Stefano Argenziano, Federica Zamatto, Simon Burroughs, Natalie Severy, Christophe Hebting, Brice de Vingne, Anthony D. Harries and Rony Zachariah
1 January, 2017
Pushed by ongoing conflicts and pulled by the desire for a better life, over one million migrants/Refugees transited Balkan countries and arrived in Europe during 2015 and early 2016.
Asylum, Mental health, Traumatic events, Operational Research, MSF -
Syrian Refugees in Turkey: pathways to precarity, differential inclusion, and negotiated citizenship rights
Feyzi Babana, Suzan Ilcanb and Kim Rygielc
1 January, 2017
This article addresses the question of how to understand the relation among precarity, differential inclusion, and citizenship status with regard to Syrian Refugees in Turkey.
Syrian Refugees, precarity, differential inclusion, citizenship rights
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More than 800 recent papers, reports, articles and opinion pieces on irregular migration in the region.
