• “Unscrupulous people posing as children”: the problematisation of unaccompanied children in UK Home Office policy discourse

  Clifford, Isabel (2022)

  This article builds upon the premise that the Home Office holds the most significant power over constructing policy truthsabout unaccompanied children in the UK. This discursive creation of policy truthsconveys a ...
• Cosmopolitanism and Mediterranean cities

  Gastaut, Yvan (2022-04)

  What place is given to foreigners and migrants in the cities of the Mediterranean basin? At a time of radicalism and withdrawal, rethinking common values on the different shores is becoming an urgent necessity. In this ...
• Everyday antigypsyism: diagnosis and avenues to fight it - Antigitanismo cotidiano: diagnóstico y vías para combatirlo - Antigitanisme quotidià: diagnòstic i vies per a combatre-ho

  Hellgren, Zenia; Gabrielli, Lorenzo (2022-04-05)

  This policy brief is based upon the results of our project AGREP which we implemented in collaboration with FAGIC (The Federation of Roma Associations in Catalonia), with the support of the OND (Barcelona City Council’s ...
• New patterns of migration in the Mediterranean: North-South: the case of Morocco

  Ismaili Idrissi, Boutaina (2021-12)
• Policy conversations across the Mediterranean: migratory governance. Europe and Lebanon in the spotlight

  Aubarell, Gemma; Geha, Carmen (2021-12)
• Rafah border: between terrorism, exogenous and endogenous pressures

  El Kordy, Mostafa Mohamed (2021-12)

  This working paper tackles border control policies in Egypt, focusing on Rafah border, possibly one of the most complex in the region and also in the entire world. Furthermore, I analyze the possible relation between the ...
• The impact of international remittances on poverty: evidence from the southern and eastern Mediterranean

  Ismaili Idrissi, Boutaina; Kawkaba, Sara (2021-11)

  Workers Remittances represent an important source of financing for recipient countries to the extent that it exceeds sometimes foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. International remittances flowing into developing economies ...
• Welcoming meaning(s): values circulation between citizens and institutions about migrants’ reception in Barcelona

  Hombert, Louise (2021)

  This paper aims to analyse the circulation of welcoming values between local institutions and the civil society, regarding asylum seekers and refugees’ reception between 2015 and 2020. What values are promoted by the ...
• Migration policies of North African countries towards third country citizens

  Boubakri, Hassen (2021-09)

  This Policy Paper summarizes the Tunisia National workshop held online on 11 November 2020. The purpose of this workshop was to analyze the migration policies applied by North African third countries to nationals of other ...
• Predicting measurement error variance in social surveys

  Oberski, Daniel L.; DeCastellarnau, Anna (2021-09)

  Social science commonly studies relationships among variables by employing survey questions. Answers to these questions will contain some degree of measurement error, distorting the relationships of interest. Such distortions ...
• Debordering processes and resilient ontological security at the city level: the case study of Barcelona in perspective

  Zapata Barrero, Ricard (2021)

  Staying within the debate, which links border studies and migration studies, my purpose is to conceptualise a focus that connects two heuristic approaches: ontological security and urban resilience. I will follow the ...
• Representations of ethnic diversity: the role of public institutions for Inclusionary citizenship practices

  Hellgren, Zenia (2021)

  This paper takes the case of Catalonia to inquire into how ethnic diversity is represented in the public institutions, considering both pro-diversity agendas and the actual presence of people from diverse origins in different ...
• Migration in the digital era : exploring new data, practices and lifestyles

  Buhr, Franz; Desille, Amandine; Fonseca, Maria Lucinda (2021-05)

  This policy paper results from the presentations and discussions, which took place at the third EUMedMi National Workshop organised by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, ...
• Immigrants' perceptions on integration in two institutional frameworks: Sweden and Spain

  Hellgren, Zenia (2016-06)

  This research project examines how immigrants of diverse ethnic origins perceive their integration, or incorporation, in two European multi-ethnic societies, Sweden and Spain, and cities, Stockholm and Barcelona. A central ...
• Roma inclusion in education : fostering constructive attitudes and good practices in the Barcelona area (VAKERIPEN) : final project report by GRITIM-UPF

  Hellgren, Zenia; Gabrielli, Lorenzo (2018-11)

  The main objective of this project, which combines qualitative research with practical implementation, was to establish constructive and lasting channels of communication between Roma families and schools in four ...
• The role of the ethnic majority in integration processes: attitudes and practices towards immigrants in Catalan institutions

  Hellgren, Zenia (2021)

  The main objective of the REPCAT project was to examine how diversity is represented, and what barriers there are for the participation of immigrants and ethnic minorities, in Catalan public institutions. ...
• The Syrian refugee labor supply shock in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon: a literature review of critical impacts on labor markets, economies and policies

  Barazesh, Sonay (2021-04)

  It is well documented that Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are the countries accepting the highest number of Syrian refugees in the world. Syrians have helped to increase the growth rate of economies and create jobs but concerns ...
• When North African emigration turns into diasporas : migration dynamics, collective action and state responses

  Bousetta, Hassan (2021-02)
• When survey science met online tracking : presenting an error framework for metered data

  Bosch, Oriol J.; Revilla, Melanie (2021-02)

  Metered data (also called "web log data" or "web-tracking data") is a type of data obtained from a meter willingly installed by participants on their devices. A meter refers to a heterogeneous group of technologies that ...
• The new EU pact and its impact on Mediterranean migration governance : continuity or rupture?

  Zapata Barrero, Ricard; Scholten, Peter; Morgades Gil, Sílvia; Pinyol, Gemma; Martín, Iván; Fakhoury Mühlbacher, Tamirace; Musette, Mohamed Saïb (2021-01)

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