The European asylum system is a relatively advanced regional protection framework, in both legislative and policy terms. However, that same system lacks a mechanism to distribute responsibility fairly among the Member States, as well as legal avenues by which persons in need of protection can...

Directive 2008/115, also known as the Return Directive (RD), sets out the procedure to be followed by Member States when returning illegally staying third-country nationals (TCNs), including the order in which the various, successive stages of that procedure should take place. According to...

The present Electronic Journal is one of the key products of the project entitled 'Return directive DIALogue' (REDIAL). The overall aim of the REDIAL Project is to facilitate horizontal judicial dialogue among EU Member State judges involved in return procedures

In April 2014, the population of Tunisia stood at 10,982,754, only 0.5 percent of whom were foreign immigrants according to the country's sixth census. First-generation, Tunisia-born migrants residing abroad stood at around 543,000, of whom 81 percent were to be found in Europe that year. As for...

The present Electronic Journal is one of the key products of a project entitled 'Return directive Dialogue' (REDIAL). The overall aim of the REDIAL Project is to facilitate horizontal judicial dialogue among judges of the EU Member States, who are involved in return procedures.1 The starting...

Jordan's last population census gave the total population of the country as 9,531,712 in November 2015, 2,918,125 (31 per cent) of whom were foreign nationals. If accurate, these numbers indicate that Jordan is a major migrant-receiving country. Jordan has the highest refugee-to-population ratio...

The recent political economy literature suggests that migrants can affect the institutional evolution of their home countries through political remittances, that is, the transfer of political norms and attitudes (e.g., for democracy, corruption) via social networks from host to home countries....