Tag: Migration
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Co-designing Policies: New Approaches Towards Inclusivity
What makes a city truly inclusive? How can it be assured that local policies are accommodating towards newcomers, refugees, and migrants and offer opportunities for them to participate? The traditional, hierarchical policy-making process often separates expertise from experience: policies are made by experts, for the people living the experience. When it comes to integration policies,…
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Reforming the Common European Asylum System
State of play of the New Pact on Migration and AsylumThe New Pact on Migration and Asylum was proposed by the Commission in September 2020. Two years from that date, where do we stand with European migration policy? This article takes stock of the advancements made by the European Institutions in negotiating a reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) through the New Pact…
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Using art to explore the Refugee Experience: An interview with the artist, Jeton Muja
Today, the world witnesses the highest levels of displacement on record. Nearly 70.8 million people throughout the world have been forced from home by conflict and persecution at the end of 2018. Among them are around 30 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18. With the increased number of people…
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Social Inclusion of Migrants: an interview with Brando Benifei, Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in European Parliament
While the concept of social inclusion is broad and extends to all segments of the European community, it also concerns the challenges that the EU still faces in its efforts to ensure that migrants and their descendants are included and participate in society. On 19 May 2020, UNITEE has conducted an interview with Brando Benifei, Member…
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COVID19 and its effects on mobility of migrants
Among the many changes the global pandemic COVID-19 has brought to the world, an important change is that hundreds of millions of people across the globe have encountered serious restrictions on their mobility. Although, associating mobility with the threat has adverse consequences in the long run. Such severe constraints on mobility negatively impact the situation…
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Migration and Climate Change: the need for a legal protection framework
Up to 20 million people are displaced only as a result of natural disruptions, and this number is expected to increase over the coming years. “The environmental displacement can be identified as a legal protection gap”, as environmental refugees are currently not covered by any international law – noted Isabel Borges, Associate Professor in Norwegian…
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Commissioner Oettinger’s insight on the EU long-term budget after 2020: Swift and comprehensive agreement essential
In the run-up of the upcoming proposal for the future Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) beyond 2020, Commissioner Oettinger in charge of the Budget and Human Resources shared with us his insight on the matter: “In less than two months (2 May) we will propose the long-term EU Budget financial perspectives beyond2020, post Brexit. What seems to be…
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4th European Migration Forum: Towards a more inclusive labour market for migrants: Seizing the potential by addressing the challenges
The 4th European Migration Forum – the dialogue platform on migration, asylum and migrant integration – took place on 6 March and was organized around the theme “Towards a more inclusive labour market for migrants: Seizing the potential by addressing the challenges”. The EMF is a platform for dialogue between civil society and the European…
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Our interview with Commissioner Andriukaitis: Insights on the management of the health-related challenges of migration
During the April 2014 informal EPSCO Council meeting in Athens, the Health Ministers decided to improve the access to healthcare for all migrants, and stressed the need for “special health services for particularly vulnerable migrant groups “. Which initiatives were put in place to ensure these objectives? I remember this EPSCO meeting as I was…
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The future of EU society between global competitiveness and migrants integration: an interview with MEP Frank Engel
As euro skepticism is rising, 2019 elections will give the public an opportunity to decide a new direction for Europe. What do you think is the way forward: more or less European integration? I believe we should all realize that we in Europe are nowhere at the present time. If we follow the line of those…