Migreurop Brief #5 - April 2017

Control of the external borders of the Schengen area is being relocated outside the EU and increasingly relies on countries of transit and countries of departures, the latter thus acting as sub-contracted border management. Preventing the movement of migrants must thus be achieved through the Neighbourhood Policy, signing various agreements (on cooperation, development assistance, coordinated management of migratory flows or readmission) and new tools such as the Migration Compacts. In (...)

Migreurop Brief #4 - October 2016

Hotspots are generally presented as a key component of the European Union (EU)’s response to the “migration crisis”, but the meaning of this expression has yet to be defined.
For those who support an essentially restrictive European asylum policy, a “crisis” occurs when large numbers of exiles arrive in the EU. If they manage to enter, the Community structure must be reinforced by further restricting entry into countries where they might benefit from the rights safeguarded by the 1951 Geneva (...)