New Publications

There’s much interest in the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s deal with Albania to offshore asylum procedures, which started this week, in an attempt to tackle the rise of irregular migration.

This policy brief, produced as part of the Horizon Europe MIrreM Project, is aimed at those engaged in evidence-based policymaking on irregular migration, providing an assessment and tips for use of available data on irregular migration. 

Andreina De Leo has published a blog on “Managing Migration the Italian Way: The “Innovative” Italy-Albania Deal under Scrutiny. 

Lilian Tsourdi has published a blog on ‘Funding the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Symbolic Politics or Structural Shifts in the Policies’ Implementation Design?’.

The second edition of the Global Study is a review of 110 countries across all five regions to document current regulatory approaches and experience on the recruitment fees and related costs.

López García, A.I. (2024) Migrant money and political unrest: Remittances and Support for Protest in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Migration, 00, 1–20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13351 

Naami, M., Mazzucato, V., & Kuschminder, K. (2024). Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2432445 

The different school forms within Germany’s tracked education system have traditionally led to different diplomas and thus future education and work prospects.

This article critically examines the extraterritorial asylum processing model established by the Italy–Albania deal, arguing that it departs from traditional EU externalization strategies and presents new legal challenges

On International Day of Human Fraternity, Tobias Hillenbrand and Melissa Siegel explore whether refugee policy can unite rather than divide in Germany.