Migration Profiles

The MPC Migration Profiles provide an overview of demographic, economic, legal and sociopolitical aspects shaping migration in the country.

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Events

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Haiti

MPC Research Seminar "Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Haiti: Human development and rights after the January 2010 Earthquake"

Thursday 24 May 2012

This research seminar aims at presenting and discussing the preliminary results of the research project on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Haiti in the framework of the ACP Observatory on Migration (ACPOM) which is led by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and financed by the European Commission. The main goal of the research project is to propose policy recommendations aimed at improving the management of internal displacement in Haiti.

VIII Summer School

Social Movements, Systemic Change and Migration

Social Movements, Systemic Change and Migration

25th June – 6th July 2012

International migration has become an all-important issue for the world as a whole, and for the European Union and its neighbourhood in particular. The history has shown that migration is not only an important force driven by and driving economic phenomena, it is also a pivotal element of social change. But what is the relation between migration and social movements that bring about the systemic change?

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The Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute, Florence, conducts advanced research on global migration to serve migration governance needs at European level, from developing, implementing and monitoring migration-related policies to assessing their impact on the wider economy and society.

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Recent Publications

Director's Welcome

by Philippe Fargues

Migration is the result of an imperfect world, wracked by inequalities, a world that sets people on the move. All nations have migrants, either emigrants or immigrants, and generally both, who represent, at the same time, a hope and a worry with regard to major societal issues such as progress, welfare, cohesion, security and rights...

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