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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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Migration Policy Practice: Vol. VII, Number 2, April-September 2017: Special issue on Irregular Migration
IOM and Eurasylum Ltd.
14 September, 2017
Migration Policy Practice is a bi-monthly journal that publishes articles from, and that is overseen by, policymakers working in the field of migration policy. This issue of Migration Policy Practi
Irregular migration, Migrant deaths, Human Smuggling, Human Tracfficking, Circular Migration -
Fatal Journeys Volume 3 Part 1: Improving Data on Missing Migrants
12 September, 2017
Since 2014, more than 22,500 migrant deaths and disappearances have been recorded by the International Organization for Migration globally.
Migrants death -
Harrowing Journeys - Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation
12 September, 2017
Young migrants and refugees set out to escape harm or secure better futures – and face staggering risks in the process. For children and youth on the move via the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe
Irregular migration, Trafficking, Exploitation, Safe migration, Children, Child migration -
Irregular Afghan Migration to Europe: At the Margins, Looking In
Angeliki Dimitriadi
12 August, 2017
This book examines the issue of irregular transit Migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans.
Transit, Irregular migration, Migratory journey -
The shifting boundaries of (un)documentedness: a Gendered understanding of migrants’ Employmentbased legalization pathways in Italy
Paola Bonizzoni
1 August, 2017
The paper provides a qualitative exploration of the experiences of migrants who have engaged in the last Employment-based amnesties in Italy.
Undocumented, Gender, Women, Migration policy, Irregular migration, Care and domestic work, Work-based legalization -
Migration diplomacy in the Global South: cooperation, coercion and issue linkage in Gaddafi’s Libya
Gerasimos Tsourapas
28 July, 2017
Despite a recent resurgence in research on the politics of Migration, foreign Policy analysts have yet to approach cross-border population Mobility as a distinct field of inquiry.
Issue linkage, Migration diplomacy, Leverage, Refugee, Cooperation, Coercion, Transit migration -
Human Security and Shared Responsibility to Fight Transnational Crimes: Resolution 2240 (2015) of the United Nations Security Council on Smuggling of Migrants and Human Tracfficking Off the Coast of Libya
Vassilis P. Tzevelekos
7 July, 2017
The paper discusses United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution 2240 (2015).
human Security, shared responsibility, transnational Crime, resolution 2240 (2015), Security council, Smuggling of migrants, Human Tracfficking, Human Rights, state responsibility -
Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’
Heaven Crawley, Dimitris Skleparis
6 July, 2017
The use of the categories ‘Refugee’ and ‘migrant’ to differentiate between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international Protection has featured strongly duri
Mixed migration, Migrant flows, Crisis, Categorical fetishism -
The Mediterranean and its migrants: porous Policy for a porous border
Claire Spencer
1 July, 2017
The Mediterranean Sea has traditionally been seen as a transit route rather than a border zone, yet the upsurge in Migration from the Mediterranean's southern shores into Europe in recent year
EU Migration Policy -
Actual Patterns of Migration flows: The Challenge of Migration and Asylum in Contemporary Europe
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
1 July, 2017
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden analyses the implications of the Refugee and Migration Crisis for the EU.
Children, Unaccompanied, International Mobility, Restricted rights -
White innocence in the Black Mediterranean: hospitality and the erasure of history
Ida Danewid
2 June, 2017
Themes of loss, grief, and vulnerability have come to occupy an increasingly central position in contemporary poststructuralist and feminist theory.
Migrant deaths, Ethics, mourning, Colonial amnesia, Race, Judith Butler -
A Free Ride on the Wave of Terror? The Securitisation of Migration in the EU and its Discursive Consequences
Emilía Anna Ward (Supervisor: Silja Bara Ómarsdóttir)
1 June, 2017
This essay analyses the concept of the securitisation of migration in the EU in light of the ongoing European migrant crisis and recent wave of terrorist attacks across Europe.
terrorism, Securitization, Politics, Public attitudes, Security, Schengen Agreement and Convention -
Migrexit and its Consequences for the European Union
Nikolaos Zahariadis
25 May, 2017
Does the influx of hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants in recent years spell trouble for the European Union (EU) as we know it?
Irregular migration, Trouble, Consequences -
Deaths at the borders database: evidence of deceased migrants’ bodies found along the southern external borders of the European Union
Tamara Last, Giorgia Mirto, Orçun Ulusoy, Ignacio Urquijo, Joke Harteb, Authors, Nefeli Bamia, Marta Pérez Péreza, Flor Macias Delgado, Amélie Tapella, Alexandra Michalaki, Eirini Michalitsia, Efi Latsoudi, Naya Tselepi, Marios Chatziprokopiou and Thomas Spijkerboer
22 May, 2017
Irregular migrants and asylum seekers have died and continue to die attempting to cross the external borders of the EU without authorisation, seeking to enter the territories of its Member States.
Irregular migration, Borders, Migrants death, Registration, Gibraltar -
Skilful Survivals: Irregular Migration to the Gulf
Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah
13 May, 2017
The overall objective of this volume is to advance existing knowledge about irregular migration to the Gulf, a subject about which huge research gaps remain.
Irregular migration, Labour migration -
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences
Vicki Squire, Angeliki Dimitriadi, Nina Perkowski, Maria Pisani, Dallal Stevens, Nick Vaughan-Williams
4 May, 2017
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of EU policies in addressing the so-called European migration or refugee ‘crisis’ in 2015 and 2016.
Irregular migration, Cross-Mediterranean flow, Migrant deaths, EU Migration Policy -
Is Europe really the dream? Contingent paths among sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco
Dorte Thorsen
1 May, 2017
This article explores migrant existences in the border zones around Europe.
Migrant's pathways, Irregular migration, Migration routes -
The Legal Grounds of Irregular Migration: A Global Game Approach
Claire Naiditch, Radu Vranceanu
1 May, 2017
This paper analyses the relationship between regular and irregular Migration taking into account the Migration network effect and the network creation mechanism.
Global games, Irregular migration, Migration policy, Networks -
Learning to live with irregular Migration: towards a more ambitious debate on the politics of ‘the problem’
Anne McNevin
1 April, 2017
What might be gained by learning to live with ‘the problem’ of irregular Migration, rather than attempting to solve it?
Irregular migration, Refugee regime, Borders, Citizenship, Migration, Development nexus, Migration policy -
What Does It Mean to Disrupt the Business Models of People Smugglers?
Luigi Achilli, Gabriella Sanchez
1 April, 2017
Despite the scaling-up of EU surveillance, enforcement measures and patrolling operations aimed at border security, the flow of irregular migrants towards Europe shows little sign of abating.
Irregular migration, Human Smuggling, EU Migration Policy
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More than 800 recent papers, reports, articles and opinion pieces on irregular migration in the region.
