This Synthesis Report presents the main findings of the Second 2013 EMN Focussed Study on “The Organisation of Reception Facilities for Asylum Seekers in the different Member States”. The main aim of this EMN Focussed Study was to identify good practices and existing mechanisms for flexible,...

This EMN Study is an update of a previous EMN Study on Policies on reception, return and integration arrangements for, and numbers of, unaccompanied minors carried out in 2008-2009. The Study identifies a number of gaps and challenges that still need to be addressed to ensure all UAMs benefit...

This document contains a short description of relevant instruments concerning asylum and refugees, on a global and on a European level, mainly the definition of a refugee, procedural safeguards, accelerated procedures, the safe country of origin and safe third country principles, manifestly...

Our study of the asylum law and practice of European Union (EU) member states as to the reception of asylum seekers and the examination of asylum applications has allowed us to formulate twenty-nine recommendations for future European asylum law and policy. These recommendations are listed below...