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Tina Gudrun Jensen, researcher at MIM – Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University and ReROOT coordinator of arrival integration research.
On November 7, 2023 MIM – Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, which is part of the ReROOT team, held a Symposium on perspectives on the EU´s New Pact on Migration and Asylum in Brussels.
The New Pact was initially proposed in 2020 and negotiations are due to conclude in February 2024. The aim of the New Pact is to find a common EU framework for migration, a set of regulations and policies to create fairer, efficient, and more sustainable migration and asylum processes for the European Union. The New Pact entails new asylum and migration management regulations, a new EU asylum agency, uniform rules on asylum applications, new rules governing migration crisis and force majeure situations, a new screening regulation, supposedly better reception conditions, an updated EU fingerprinting database, a common asylum procedure, and a new EU resettlement framework.
The panel members for the symposium in Brussels were Johan Ekstadt, doctoral researcher from Dept. of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Magdalena Ulceluse, assistant professor in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at MIM, Malmö University, Dr Basak Yavcan, head of research, Migration Policy Group and Dr Hanne Beirens, Migration Policy Institute Europe.
The panel debated the positive and negative aspects of the New Pact. On the positive side, the panel mentioned that many member states were willing to come to the negotiation table and collaborate on the New Pact. Yet, the panel also pointed out many shortcomings of the New Pact. Generally, the panel members questioned whether the New Pact will resolve the core problems of the asylum system. They pointed out that as more administration and decision-making will happen at the border, even more people will be stuck at there. This is in line with a general critique of the New Pact that procedural rules appear to be so complex that they may be unworkable in practice. Consequently, the new procedures may lower the protection standards for asylum seekers in Europe as it is expected that there will be more use of the border procedure, which will lead to more people in detention centres at the external borders, and thus to substandard asylum procedures and more pushbacks. Also, the New Pact does not do away with the system of the Dublin regulation, i.e., migrants can still be sent back to Greece.
Another criticism that the panel raised was that the New Pact does not put priority to special vulnerable groups such as children and victims of domestic violence. This also reflects a general criticism against the New Pact for not considering exemptions from the border procedure for vulnerable people. Furthermore, the panel pointed out that regular migration related to labour as well as low-skilled migrants has little priority in the New Pact, which appears to prioritise only the `best and brightest´ migrants.
The change in EU policy represented by the EU´s New Pact on Migration and Asylum is important for the ReROOT project, which has a focus on the development of migration regimes, and provides insights into arrival processes as they take place within policy contexts. The ReROOT project is concerned with the many constraints in migration and reception systems, and hence observe any changes that may improve the involved procedures.
by Karel Arnaut ( KU Leuven )
Policy recommendations occupy a rather unusual place in ReROOT. The project is not aiming to produce high-level substantive policy recommendations for national governments and EY policy makers to formulate measures for handling migration and advance integration of newcomers. Instead it tries to empower arrival processes, prompt local multi-actor collaborations towards integration and bring in local and regional policy makers to asses the potential of these ‘integration coalitions’, inviting them to enhance the opportunity structures for these to prosper. In short, ReROOT seeks to build policy from below. What it expects from the (trans)national policy makers is to create a discursive environment that allows the local infrastructural work to succeed. On the rebound, the (trans)national policy makers are invited to draw from the local integration stories in order to enrich the translocal enabling discursive environment. To explain and illustrate this process, is the overall aim of this policy brief.
Read here: Policy Brief ReROOT
Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal
La migration internationale depuis l’Afrique de l’Ouest vers l’Europe fait l’objet depuis plus de vingt ans de toutes les attentions médiatiques et politiques, la focale des financements et des programmes étant mise sur l’actualité, dans le but de donner des clefs pour appréhender les processus les plus immédiats. Dans cet atelier, nous nous appuierons sur les recherches en sciences sociales qui rappellent la profondeur historique des mobilités sur le continent africain ainsi que l’importance des circulations Sud-Sud.
La tenue de l’atelier à l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis sera l’occasion de revenir, entre autres, sur la configuration de la Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal comme espace de mobilité dans la longue durée, qui a connu de multiples reconfigurations. Plus particulièrement, ces journées ont pour objectif de considérer les spatialités et les temporalités de la réception et de l’installation des migrants dans la ville de Saint-Louis.
Il s’agira de relever les pratiques urbaines quotidiennes ordinaires des populations migrantes arrivées à Saint-Louis, leurs sociabilités mais aussi les formes de leur engagement citoyen au niveau local, voire transnational et qui participe à la construction d’une légitimité sociale à l’échelle locale.
Les chercheurs, anthropologues et sociologues, interrogeront les formes et les modalités multiples de participation quotidienne des populations migrantes à Saint-Louis, notamment dans leurs interactions aux politiques publiques qui leurs sont destinées.
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Cette proposition d’atelier est formulée avec l’appui du programme ReROOT (Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers, H2020, consortium de recherche européen porté par l’Université Catholique de Louvain, agreement number 101004704 ). Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye coordonne une équipe de ce programme à l’Institut des mondes africains (Aubervilliers). Lors de l’atelier, l’équipe parisienne introduira brièvement l’approche de situations migratoires par les infrastructures d’arrivée. Loin de présumer que cette approche, testée pour l’instant sur des terrains européens, soit transposable à d’autres contextes, il s’agira d’ouvrir nos boîtes à outils et d’apprendre auprès de collègues sénégalais, dans un esprit de partage des concepts et méthodes.
