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Following up on last year’s interview, The Broker held another exclusive interview with Ángel Losada, the EU Special Representative for the Sahel. We met with Losada at a timely moment, shortly after the announcement of a new joint force of five S…

With the start of a new year, the time has come to reflect on what has passed and look towards what is to come in 2017. A shortlist of 5 unmissable articles published by The Broker in 2016 provides a great start.

The new EU migration trust fund’s use of development aid and its focus on ‘migration management’ securitizes both development and migration policy and will end up serving neither.

An emerging narrative points to global warming as a driver of conflict in the Sahel but this narrative risks glossing over the real root causes

Increasing international management of migration has resulted in diluted state responsibility for policies that can have devastating effects on the ground.

Shelter in the region represents a gap in the protection of refugees, which is in stark contrast with Europe’s professed commitment to human rights and international law.

Can the EU stem migration flows to Europe by supporting agriculture in countries of origin? In some situations, it can. The impact could be particularly large if Europe worked to increase the resilience of the food system and the people in countri…

People will keep moving between countries, as they always have, so European policymakers should focus on making the most of migration.

Sahel Watch Coordinator Karlijn Muiderman was part of a panel discussion on migrants in the media at the recent Refugee Hackathon in Amsterdam. The panel explored patterns of collaboration between journalists, policy makers, refugees and migrants….

To effectively deal with migration, the European Union needs to improve its use of extraterritorial jurisdiction in two fields: corruption and international crimes.

Europe’s 2015 political crisis over refugees and migration illustrated the lack of a coordinated approach by the European Union on these issues. Three constraints underpin this lack of coordination: the EU’s system of shared competences, the numbe…

The EU Special Representative for the Sahel has been given the mandate to address the issue of continuing insecurity, the main cause of migration out of the region.

Images of Syrian children sleeping in the streets of Brussels and Belgrade illustrate the complete chaos and inhumane conditions at refugee and reception centers throughout the capital cities of Europe. One would indeed believe that Europe is…

Humanitarian search and rescue has become an increasingly important component of conflict management. Eugenio Cusumano addresses the innovative Migrant Offshore Aid Station.

Migration is well on its way in becoming the 2015 political theme in Europe and for the years ahead. Although many media sources have covered the issue, more substantial knowledge will be of essential importance in shaping an effective future migr…

The EU migration and refugee crisis has acutely revealed the limits of the Schengen and Dublin systems as well as national reticence to build a European migration and asylum policy. If Europe is not up to the task, can international organizations…

The EU project is haunted by its own failing border regime. Its obsession with repelling outsiders, even leading to their death, is undermining the very principles that allowed its unification in the past and is precipitating its own decline.

In order to provide a clear analysis of current international migration flows and policies, clear definitions are required. The key terms used in debates on migration are outlined below. Some terms are followed by short discussions regarding the u…

The year 2015 marked the greatest influx of Syrians to Europe ever recorded. There is little doubt about the danger of the conflict in Syria as the main driver for emigration, but the motives to migrate to Europe can be debated.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a framework to address today’s complex challenges surrounding human mobility.

Although African migration is not a new phenomenon, migration from Africa to Europe has increased in recent years. What is driving these people to move to Europe right now? When answering this question it becomes clear that effective migration pol…

For the last two decades Libya has been the main starting point for African refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean despite EU supported repressive measures and civil war

As both the largest host of refugees worldwide and a transit country for refugees travelling to Europe, Turkey is one of the main players in the current refugee crisis. Despite several government services to refugees, many decide to move on as the…

As the influx of migrants to Europe unfolds as the biggest humanitarian and political crisis of 2015, European policy-makers are being challenged to come up with unified responses. Currently, they mainly focus on curbing migration&n…;

The Migration Trail living analysis focuses on directions and improvements of European migration policies. To do so it is important to outline first how these policies are embedded within international regulations. This article therefore outlines…

Although African migration is no new phenomenon, migration from Africa to Europe has increased gradually in recent years. What is driving them to move to Europe at this moment in time? When answering this question it becomes clear that effective m…

As the influx of migrants to Europe from Africa and elsewhere unfolds as the biggest humanitarian, political and solidarity crisis of 2015, we are being challenged to formulate unified European policies. However, blind spots along the migration tr…

The EU migration and refugee crisis has acutely revealed the limits of the Schengen and Dublin systems as well as national reticence to build a European migration and asylum policy. If Europe is not up to the task, can international organizations…

The extraordinary opportunity to permeate ‘fortress Europe’ through Libya has serious implications for stability and state consolidation in the Sahel and Maghreb.

Since the outbreak of the Libyan war, migration transport has changed. But although conditions for Tuareg trans-border business became more difficult, it will continue on as before.

Refugee transport is a new and growing industry in Libya, posing difficult questions for European policymakers

Reading today’s newspapers in 10 years’ time we would probably reach the conclusion that the Netherlands is suffering collective short-sightedness.

Integrated approaches to empower young African women and men to take their place in a modernized agricultural sector are needed throughout the continent.

Migrants and remigrants are especially likely to start their own businesses. But do they have the skills and knowledge that will allow them to access market niches and contribute to local economies?

Migration should be part of a renewed MDG8 – a global partnership for development.

3 and 4 October, the UN General Assembly in New York discusses the global governance of international migration and development. A key theme will be the “mainstreaming of human rights into all aspects of the migration debate”. With so few countrie…

In spite of the ongoing euro crisis, which does not leave much space for an ambitious global agenda, the EU remains a major global development actor.

More than 80% of labour disputes in China are solved through mediation, but the processes do not eliminate the antagonism.

The Broker, together with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized the Dutch launch of the 2013 European Report on Development (ERD), Post-2015: Global Action for an Inclus…

To achieve inclusive development the European Union (EU) needs to reframe its economic policy and reconsider politically sensitive issues.

A Glimpse Into Life Stories in the World’s Factory – Part 2 on migrant workersFor ethical reasons relating to the author’s ongoing research, the names of the town and the people in this article are all fictitious.In part 1 of this blog, I dis…

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“We’ll always have Paris” says one of the most famous lines from the movie Casablanca. In the international donor community, “always [having] Paris” would refer to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness launched back in 2005. Six years and two…

Is brain-drain counter-balanced by remittances and returning émigrés?

The news is spreading: China’s new generation of migrant workers in the booming export industry are roaring their voice. The number and intensity of protests is on the rise in China’s urban industrial areas. Read for example Reuters’ special repor…

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen’s reflections on Danish development policy point to how, during the first decade of the millennium, policy makers worldwide seized on the potential of migration to enhance development. ‘Leveraging remittances’ and ‘engaging t…

Migration has long been perceived as a completely distinct area of concern from development. In 2000, the Danish International Development Assistance Agency (Danida), which had traditionally taken this view, appeared to change course and adopted m…

There has been growing support for anti-immigrant, ultra-nationalist politics in many Western states in recent years. This deep disquiet with the realities of human mobility in the age of globalization suggests a profound political crisis. Christi…