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Welcome to the European migration policy portal

European migration policy is a set of rules towards migration of people within and beyond the European Union which was a logical conclusion of establishment of the European Internal Market and the abolition of internal border control. It was established in 1990 with the entry into force of Schengen Implementation Convention. The European migration policy includes asylum, intergration, free movement within EU, policy against traffickking people, Development aid etc.

This week's featured IPM wiki article

Refugee

Refugees are those who fled their country because of war, prosecution, natural disaster in order to reside permanently to other countries which are bound to UNHCR,The UN Refugee Agency. Refugee has an major impact on European migration policy as they are immigrants and are included as one of the policy within EMP (European migration policy). European migration policy strongly links to refugees because they are persons that migrated to different parts of Europe for safety there for the making of European migration policies has to be looked upon very closely to help refugees making sure they are not Displaced persons but also to protect the well being of the country.

European Migration Network European Migration Network is an organization of European member states to provide the information on the migration and Asylum situation within European member states...European Migration Network

Asylum seeker

Asylum seeker is someone who has fled his/her country,in turmoil and danger,deprived of normal life because of conflict and persecution,to apply asylum to the government of another country for the protection as a refugee. Asylum seekers are also a form a emigrate, he or she fled their country because of conflict and needs refuge from another that is capable.Where as Europe has to form and shape significantly there asylum seeker policy in connection with their migration policy.

Human rights

Human rights places a strong role with in the European migration polices.The policies that has to be implemented bearing on the human rights.Human rights places a strong role with in the European migration polices.Human Rights is the rights of whole human beings of having; right to live freely, right to express the view without restraint , right to participate in any aspects of human activities which take place on the earth.The security of person not being exploited and mistreated have a strong role in European migration policy.Person in charge of policy making should be aware of the rights of human beings and also enable the immigrants to be aware of there rights as human beings and as immigrants.



In the news

Europe is not heading for a population collapse

Posted on 5 February 2010

Fred Pearce vividly portrays population collapse in the town of Hoyers­werda in eastern Germany and links it with a likely future for Europe: "Europe's population is, right now, peaking, after more than six centuries of continuous growth. With each generation reproducing only half its number, this looks like the start of a ­continent-wide collapse in numbers.

Read further... Guardian.co.uk

EU immigration slows down

Posted on February 2, 2010

Switzerland has seen a slowdown in the numbers of immigrants coming from European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (Efta) countries.

At the end of December 2009, the number of permanent residents of EU and Efta nationality reached 1,066,086, an increase of 3.9 per cent on 2008, according the Federal Migration Office.

Read further... swissinfo.ch

Spanish Presidency ministers outline Council Presidency priorities

Posted on January 27, 2010

Spanish Presidency ministers this week outline their EU Council Presidency priorities to a range of parliamentary committees and will field MEPs' questions on most EU policy areas. On Tuesday they faced the committees on Civil Liberties, Public Health, Culture, and Economic and Monetary Affairs. This release will be updated throughout the week.

Read further... news.penki.lt

New President of PACE is a Turkish Parliamentarian

Posted on January 26, 2010

Mevlut Cavusoglu, a Parliamentarian from Turkey, was elected the first Turkish president in the history of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), established in 1949. This election is noteworthy in regards to Turkey’s position and role in Europe.

Read further... www.turkishweekly.net

New action plan on legal immigration

Posted on January 25, 2010

While Europe’s immigration ministers intend to make efforts in terms of legal migratory policy and the integration of migrants, for some, combating illegal immigration unequivocally remains at the top of the political agenda.

Read further... www.europolitics.info

Claims over Polish immigrants' return 'not true'

Posted on January 22, 2010

A Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true. The Migration Policy Institute had said 1.5m people from new EU states, mostly Poles, had come to the UK since 2004 and that more than half had now left.

Read further... news.bbc.co.uk


Historical perspective

History of European migration policy

1960-1970s : « guestworkers » from Southern Europe, later also Morocco, are invited to work in the low paid, hard jobs in factories in Northern and Western Europe

1973 Germany: “Anwerbestopp” = no more guestworkers invited Netherlands: Decolonisation of Indonesia, Suriname and the Netherlands Antillies provokes a big refugee streem from these countries to the Netherlands

1979 Netherlands: creation of ‘Vluchtelingenwerk’, a national organisation working for and with refugees and asylumseekers.

1987 Netherlands: creation of asylumseekers centres by the government to spread asylum seekers over more municipalities and to provide more or less decent facilities

1990s: Creation of the “Schengen-area” of free movement and beginning of restrictive policies concerning immigration and asylum, first readmission contracts with transit countries...History of migration policy (Europe)

Policy practices compared


EUROPEAN MIGRATION POLICY COMPARED TO Canada's....

Compared to Canada's migration policy , European have and is still current expanding and improving it's migration policy.Being the nearest and closest continent for persons to seek for refuge, Europe have made possible for persons to seek settlement and the rights to own a European passport within years of settling .Europe have also reach the goal of easing borders with the Schengen Agreement, causing the growth in globalization with cross-border workers contributing to the European economy.

For further reading on European migration policy click on the link http://www.e-joussour.net/en/node/1061


Canadian Migration Policy Compared To European migration policy

Immigration to Canada is a privilege, not a right. Canada remains selective about who may enter and, equally important, who may not.The future of multiculturalism is unclear. History has shown that the rise and fall of economic prosperity and the need for a larger labor force affect our society's openness toward new immigrants to our shores....Canadian migration policy

U.S. Migration policy

Immigration policy in the United States reflects multiple goals. First, it serves to reunite families by admitting immigrants who already have family members living in the United States. Second, it seeks to admit workers with specific skills and to fill positions in occupations deemed to be experiencing labor shortages. Third, it attempts to provide a refuge for people who face the risk of political, racial, or religious persecution in their country of origin...Migration policy (United States)


Did you know...?

...That Spain, the UK, Italy, Germany, and France were the leading states for migrants sending money home, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total EU remittance.

...That the number of Polish migrants in the Netherlands has doubled since 2004, when Poland joined the EU.

...That businesses taking part in an informal debate on a common immigration pact in the European Union feel that High-skilled labor immigration is extremely important.

...That last year, 34% of the migrants went to Europe.


Institutions

Institutions related to European migration policy among others are


People

People who play an important role for European migration policy

European Union

  • Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs,Mr.F. de La Mure.[1].
  • European Ombudsman,Mr.P. Nikiforos Diamandouros.[2].
  • José Manuel Barosso, president of the European Commision.

Guido Bolaffi is Director-General of the Italian Department of the Ministry of Labor and Social ,and he is also the Director-General position as head of both the Immigration Bureau of the Ministry of Immigration and Italian Communities Overseas. Mr. Bolaffi was a member of the high-level panel on the free movement of persons in the European Union, chaired by Simone Veil in 1996. In 1989, at that time he was appointed as a Advisor on Social European Issues.

Heaven Crawley is a program Director and also senior researcher of Institute for Public Policy Research in London and he is also Responsible for developing and delivering a program of research on asylum and immigration to evaluate changes in policy and practice resulting.

Constantinos Fotakis is head of the Unit "Social and demographic analysis" in the European Commission. He has been working at the European Commission since 1981. He is working in European Since 1981.

Elspeth Guild is a human rights lawyer, specializing in immigration law. Ms. Guild is representatives of the UK to the European Commission's Network on Free Movement of Persons. http://www.inexproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=90



Further reading

If you want to get more or detailed information you could check:

  • Websites:
    • Provisions on visas,asylum,immigration and other policies related to free movement of persons[3]
    • Webtext on migration policy in the european perspective, development and future trends by Anna Kicinger, Katarzyna Saczuk [4]
    • Migrant Integration Policy [5]
  • Books:
    • Migration and Asylum law and policy in the European Union,Cambridge University Press 2004,ISBN 9780521605588 This book is about EU policy on migration and asylum, and the manner in which this policy is being implemented at a national level.
    • European Migration Policies in Flux,Christian Boswell, ISBN 9781405102964 This book is about European migration policies and it's changes after three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply that are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies.


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Welcome to the European migration policy portal

European migration policy is a set of rules towards migration of people within and beyond the European Union which was a logical conclusion of establishment of the European Internal Market and the abolition of internal border control. It was established in 1990 with the entry into force of Schengen Implementation Convention. The European migration policy includes asylum, intergration, free movement within EU, policy against traffickking people, Development aid etc.

This IPMProject 1 portal was created and maintained in 2008-2009 by the following IPM students of The Hague University (HHS):

Featured

Refugee

Refugees are those who fled their country because of war, prosecution, natural disaster in order to reside permanently to other countries which are bound to UNHCR,The UN Refugee Agency. Refugee has an major impact on European migration policy as they are immigrants and are included as one of the policy within EMP (European migration policy). European migration policy strongly links to refugees because they are persons that migrated to different parts of Europe for safety there for the making of European migration policies has to be looked upon very closely to help refugees making sure they are not Displaced persons but also to protect the well being of the country.

European Migration Network European Migration Network is an organization of European member states to provide the information on the migration and Asylum situation within European member states...European Migration Network

Asylum seeker

Asylum seeker is someone who has fled his/her country,in turmoil and danger,deprived of normal life because of conflict and persecution,to apply asylum to the government of another country for the protection as a refugee. Asylum seekers are also a form a emigrate, he or she fled their country because of conflict and needs refuge from another that is capable.Where as Europe has to form and shape significantly there asylum seeker policy in connection with their migration policy.

Human rights

Human rights places a strong role with in the European migration polices.The policies that has to be implemented bearing on the human rights.Human rights places a strong role with in the European migration polices.Human Rights is the rights of whole human beings of having; right to live freely, right to express the view without restraint , right to participate in any aspects of human activities which take place on the earth.The security of person not being exploited and mistreated have a strong role in European migration policy.Person in charge of policy making should be aware of the rights of human beings and also enable the immigrants to be aware of there rights as human beings and as immigrants.



In the news

Europe is not heading for a population collapse

Posted on 5 February 2010

Fred Pearce vividly portrays population collapse in the town of Hoyers­werda in eastern Germany and links it with a likely future for Europe: "Europe's population is, right now, peaking, after more than six centuries of continuous growth. With each generation reproducing only half its number, this looks like the start of a ­continent-wide collapse in numbers.

Read further... Guardian.co.uk

EU immigration slows down

Posted on February 2, 2010

Switzerland has seen a slowdown in the numbers of immigrants coming from European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (Efta) countries.

At the end of December 2009, the number of permanent residents of EU and Efta nationality reached 1,066,086, an increase of 3.9 per cent on 2008, according the Federal Migration Office.

Read further... swissinfo.ch

Spanish Presidency ministers outline Council Presidency priorities

Posted on January 27, 2010

Spanish Presidency ministers this week outline their EU Council Presidency priorities to a range of parliamentary committees and will field MEPs' questions on most EU policy areas. On Tuesday they faced the committees on Civil Liberties, Public Health, Culture, and Economic and Monetary Affairs. This release will be updated throughout the week.

Read further... news.penki.lt

New President of PACE is a Turkish Parliamentarian

Posted on January 26, 2010

Mevlut Cavusoglu, a Parliamentarian from Turkey, was elected the first Turkish president in the history of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), established in 1949. This election is noteworthy in regards to Turkey’s position and role in Europe.

Read further... www.turkishweekly.net

New action plan on legal immigration

Posted on January 25, 2010

While Europe’s immigration ministers intend to make efforts in terms of legal migratory policy and the integration of migrants, for some, combating illegal immigration unequivocally remains at the top of the political agenda.

Read further... www.europolitics.info

Claims over Polish immigrants' return 'not true'

Posted on January 22, 2010

A Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true. The Migration Policy Institute had said 1.5m people from new EU states, mostly Poles, had come to the UK since 2004 and that more than half had now left.

Read further... news.bbc.co.uk


Historical perspective

History of European migration policy

1960-1970s : « guestworkers » from Southern Europe, later also Morocco, are invited to work in the low paid, hard jobs in factories in Northern and Western Europe

1973 Germany: “Anwerbestopp” = no more guestworkers invited Netherlands: Decolonisation of Indonesia, Suriname and the Netherlands Antillies provokes a big refugee streem from these countries to the Netherlands

1979 Netherlands: creation of ‘Vluchtelingenwerk’, a national organisation working for and with refugees and asylumseekers.

1987 Netherlands: creation of asylumseekers centres by the government to spread asylum seekers over more municipalities and to provide more or less decent facilities

1990s: Creation of the “Schengen-area” of free movement and beginning of restrictive policies concerning immigration and asylum, first readmission contracts with transit countries...History of migration policy (Europe)

Policy practices compared


EUROPEAN MIGRATION POLICY COMPARED TO Canada's....

Compared to Canada's migration policy , European have and is still current expanding and improving it's migration policy.Being the nearest and closest continent for persons to seek for refuge, Europe have made possible for persons to seek settlement and the rights to own a European passport within years of settling .Europe have also reach the goal of easing borders with the Schengen Agreement, causing the growth in globalization with cross-border workers contributing to the European economy.

For further reading on European migration policy click on the link http://www.e-joussour.net/en/node/1061


Canadian Migration Policy Compared To European migration policy

Immigration to Canada is a privilege, not a right. Canada remains selective about who may enter and, equally important, who may not.The future of multiculturalism is unclear. History has shown that the rise and fall of economic prosperity and the need for a larger labor force affect our society's openness toward new immigrants to our shores....Canadian migration policy

U.S. Migration policy

Immigration policy in the United States reflects multiple goals. First, it serves to reunite families by admitting immigrants who already have family members living in the United States. Second, it seeks to admit workers with specific skills and to fill positions in occupations deemed to be experiencing labor shortages. Third, it attempts to provide a refuge for people who face the risk of political, racial, or religious persecution in their country of origin...Migration policy (United States)


Did you know...?

...That Spain, the UK, Italy, Germany, and France were the leading states for migrants sending money home, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total EU remittance.

...That the number of Polish migrants in the Netherlands has doubled since 2004, when Poland joined the EU.

...That businesses taking part in an informal debate on a common immigration pact in the European Union feel that High-skilled labor immigration is extremely important.

...That last year, 34% of the migrants went to Europe.


Institutions

Institutions related to European migration policy among others are


People

People who play an important role for European migration policy

European Union

  • Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs,Mr.F. de La Mure.[6].
  • European Ombudsman,Mr.P. Nikiforos Diamandouros.[7].
  • José Manuel Barosso, president of the European Commision.

Guido Bolaffi is Director-General of the Italian Department of the Ministry of Labor and Social ,and he is also the Director-General position as head of both the Immigration Bureau of the Ministry of Immigration and Italian Communities Overseas. Mr. Bolaffi was a member of the high-level panel on the free movement of persons in the European Union, chaired by Simone Veil in 1996. In 1989, at that time he was appointed as a Advisor on Social European Issues.

Heaven Crawley is a program Director and also senior researcher of Institute for Public Policy Research in London and he is also Responsible for developing and delivering a program of research on asylum and immigration to evaluate changes in policy and practice resulting.

Constantinos Fotakis is head of the Unit "Social and demographic analysis" in the European Commission. He has been working at the European Commission since 1981. He is working in European Since 1981.

Elspeth Guild is a human rights lawyer, specializing in immigration law. Ms. Guild is representatives of the UK to the European Commission's Network on Free Movement of Persons. http://www.inexproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=90



Further reading

If you want to get more or detailed information you could check:

  • Websites:
    • Provisions on visas,asylum,immigration and other policies related to free movement of persons[8]
    • Webtext on migration policy in the european perspective, development and future trends by Anna Kicinger, Katarzyna Saczuk [9]
    • Migrant Integration Policy [10]
  • Books:
    • Migration and Asylum law and policy in the European Union,Cambridge University Press 2004,ISBN 9780521605588 This book is about EU policy on migration and asylum, and the manner in which this policy is being implemented at a national level.
    • European Migration Policies in Flux,Christian Boswell, ISBN 9781405102964 This book is about European migration policies and it's changes after three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply that are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies.


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