EMN Informs

This EMN Inform includes the key findings of the EMN Synthesis Report on resettlement and humanitarian admission programmes and schemes in Europe, as well as private sponsorship programmes for refugees in the EU Member States and Norway. It provides an overview of the national political contexts and focuses also on methods and criteria used for selecting persons to be resettled, activities undertaken prior to departure to the resettlement country, post-arrival integration measures, as well as challenges and good practices in the implementation of resettlement and humanitarian programmes/schemes in Europe.

This EMN Inform summarises the key findings of the EMN Study on the changes in immigration status within the framework of various legislation in different EU Member States. It highlights the changes in purpose of stay and the main factors influencing Member States' admission of the change. Inform includes also the main challenges Member States face in this regards, identifies good practices and lessons learnt as well as analyses the effectiveness, impact and perception of national change of status policies.

This EMN Inform summarises main findings of the EMN Policy Brief on trends in asylum applications and movement of non-EU migrants across the European Economic Area (EEA) over recent years up to September 2015. It outlines the key routes that migrants use to travel to the EEA and the countries where some subsequently claim asylum, along with some of the outcomes of those claims. It concentrates on those EU countries receiving the highest number of asylum applications, namely Germany, Sweden, Italy, France, Hungary, UK, Austria, Netherlands and Belgium. Greece is also included where relevant given its geographical location as a key migration route. Apart from the contributing EMN members, data was also provided by Frontex and Eurostat.

The EMN Inform provides an overview of the mechanisms in place in the EU Member States to determine labour shortages and quantifies the needs for migration labour and it describes the scale and nature of unfilled vacancies in the EU. It also assesses how the impact of labour migration on national labour markets is monitored and what kind of instruments are used to that end.

This EMN Inform presents the main findings from the EMN synthesis report on different approaches employed in the EU Member States and Norway to ensure that irregular migrants are informed of options for return, including voluntary and assisted voluntary return. It identifies the main challenges faced by Member States, provides information on national approaches involving migration and asylum authorities, other public authorities and other actors, describes the role of various involved actors, provides details about the tools used as well as the evaluation of the effectiveness of these tools.

This EMN Inform presents the main findings of the EMN synthesis report on system of protection and care for unaccompanied minors in the EU Member States and Norway including reasons for the arrival of unaccompanied minors to the EU and Norway, systems of admission, integration measures, the issue of their disappearance and escape and return and reintegration to their countries of origin.

This EMN Inform presents the main findings of the EMN synthesis report on policies and legal frameworks regulating entry and stay of immigrant investors, immigrant business owners and other business persons. It also deals with measures to prevent abuse of migration of third-country nationals for business purposes and the evaluation of programs focused on attracting immigrant investors. 

This EMN Inform based on the information collected via EMN Return Expert Group (REG) summarises the impact of the assisted voluntary return and reintegration programmes for irregular migrants to Western Africa. It characterises the main trends in return as well as programmes of EU Member States and Norway supporting return to Western Africa and identifies challenges and good practices including latest available statistics.