With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

Readmission agreements have been used for a long time as a key means of combating illegal immigration, whether at bilateral, intergovernmental or Community level. To date, six agreements have been signed between the European Community and its Member States, for the one part, and third countries,...

Provides an overall insight into the most significant political discussions, legal developments, as well as enforcement policies and administrative practices in the participating Member States within the field of migration and asylum

The South Caucasus is a small but diverse region, comprising the three states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as well as three separatist breakaway territories of Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The region has an official population of only around 17 million people, but also...