Resources

The Family Reunification Project ezine is published on a quarterly basis, and provides updates and news about the Project.

Ezine, Issue 1 – February 2012

This section contains information about international case law relevant to family reunification.

UK Supreme Court Ruling

Overview of Case Law of EU and ECHR by Nuala Mole, Founder and Director of the Aire Centre, UK

This section contains submissions by project partners to the European Commission’s Green Paper on Family Reunion.  These submissions were made in March 2012.

Submission by the European Women’s Lobby and the European Network of Migrant Women

Submission by the Immigrant Council of Ireland

Submission by the High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI) Portugal English Version

Submission by the High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI) Portugal

This section contains agendas and other materials pertaining to meetings of the partner organisations in the Family Reunification Project.

First Meeting of the Family Reunification Project – London, United Kingdom, 17^th and 18^th October 2011

 Meeting Agenda – Family Reunification Project Meeting 1, October 2011

Second Meeting of the Family Reunification Project – Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 19th and 20th January 2012

Meeting Agenda – Family Reunification Project Meeting 2, January 2012

Third meeting of the Family Reunification Project-  International Centre for Migration Policy Development,Vienna,Austria, 10^th and 11^th May 2012.

Meeting Agenda- Family Reunification Project Meeting 3, May 2012

 Austria’s Position on the EC Green Paper on Family Reunification

 DNA and immigration Social, political and ethical implications of DNA analysis for family reunification (‘Immigene‘)

European Migration Network Study

The European Website on Integration has published a special feature on Family Reunification.

European Website on Integration Special Feature on Family Reunification.

This is an annotated list of some 20 research studies which builds on a literature review conducted by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development for another project.

List of Previous Studies on Family Migration

This section contains links to publications and websites that are of relevance to family reunification issues within the EU.

Official European Union Websites and Documents

• European Commission Home Affairs – information on how the right to family reunification is recognised within the EU.
• European Union Council Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification.
• Report from the European Commission to the European Parliament and Council on the application of Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification.
• European Commission Green Paper on the right to family reunification of third-country nationals living in the European Union.

Organisations Working on Family Reunification Research and Relevant Issues

• European Council on Refugees and Exiles.
• European Network Against Racism.
• European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW).
• European Policy Centre.
• European Women’s Lobby.
• Migration Policy Group.
• MIPEX (Migrant Integration Policy Index).
• Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants.
• PROMINSTAT – provides reliable, systematic and harmonised statistical data on migration, integration and discrimination in Europe.

Miscellaneous Links

• Civic Stratification, Gender and Family Migration Policies in Europe.

This toolkit was produced by the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW) and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL).  It aims to help organisations advocate for gender-sensitive EU policies on family reunificaiton that uphold the rights – and meet the needs – of migrant women.

Lobbying Kit

Introduction to a volume on ‘Gender, Generations and the Family’, co-edited by Albert Kraler, International Centre for Migration Policy Development and available from Amsterdam University Press.

Introduction – ‘Gender, Generations and The Family’

The Migrants’ Rights Network has developed a briefing paper which gives an overall analysis of the new rules on Family Migration.

MRN Family Migration Briefing