Migration Policy Centre

Why is this course worth it? Here's why one of the course instructors, Eleonora Milazzo, recommends it 👇 (see photo)

Join us from 5 to 7 October 2026 for the Effective Migration Governance training in Florence to:

🔷Incorporate research findings on migration dynamics into policy design and practice.
🔷Gain insights into migration policy implementation.
🔷Explore how public institutions can identify and address public concerns around migration.
🔷Connect with a diverse range of key stakeholders in the field.

This course is organised in partnership with the School of Transnational Governance. More details: https://loom.ly/42Fl2DA

Early bird applications are open until 24 July!

🇵🇱 Poland has rapidly transitioned into a country of net immigration. But its migration governance has not kept pace.

The arrival of refugees following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine accelerated Poland’s transformation into a major destination country. Yet significant gaps remain in the country’s migration institutional framework.

One of the consequences? 👉 Migrants with regular residence status can still find themselves pushed into informal employment.

In this policy brief, Katarzyna Porwit and Agata Górny examine how bureaucratic bottlenecks and over-reliance on intermediary employment agencies contribute to this situation.

They show that irregularity in is rarely about unauthorised border crossings. Instead, it often takes the form of 'façade regularity' and semi-regularity, where migrants hold formal residence documents but work in violation of the conditions attached to their permits.

They also put forward immediate and long-term policy interventions to address these challenges.

Access it here 📌 https://loom.ly/1EBrMM8

Just released 🚨 New episode of In the Room ➡️ Andrew Selee on his dinner with Hillary Clinton and the one idea that stuck.

Eleonora Milazzo speaks with Andrew Selee, President of the Migration Policy Institute, to explore how evidence can shape policy when it's communicated in the right way.

Andrew takes us inside an extraordinary room: a dinner with Hillary Clinton, who was at the time the newly appointed US Secretary of State, where he helped reframe the conversation on organised crime from one of "helping Mexico" to one of "shared responsibility".

But the episode is about much more than that meeting. Andrew explains why policy impact starts long before policymakers enter the room or researchers reach their conclusions. He also reflects on the current US political landscape and what it means for evidence-informed policymaking.

🎧 Listen here and stay until the end to hear how he resets after a meeting: https://loom.ly/zajkiiw

We’re wrapping up the academic year with a new book publication and kicking off September with its presentation!

👉 Save the date for the first MPC Seminar of the 2026/2027 academic year, where James Dennison and Andrew Geddes will present their new book, 'What Europeans Think About Immigration and Why It Matters'. This major new study explores attitudes towards immigration in contemporary Europe.

Drawing on insights from political science, psychology, sociology, and public policy, the authors will explore the many factors that shape public opinion on immigration, from people's beliefs, emotions, and values to the influence of the media, economic conditions, and national contexts.

📅 28 September 2026
🕚 11:00–12:00 CEST
Register here 📌 https://loom.ly/slsNnf0

Check out the book: https://loom.ly/cqVJkz

Thinking about applying for the Effective Migration Governance Training but still have questions?

We have rounded up some of the most common FAQs—from who the course is for to what makes it different and why it's delivered in person.

Swipe through to learn more, and if you’re ready to take the next step, submit your application before the 24 of July to benefit from the early bird: https://loom.ly/42Fl2DA

🗓 5–7 October 2026
📍 Florence

This course is organised in partnership with the School of Transnational Governance

Most displacement discussions assume camps. However, 60–80% of forcibly displaced people live in cities, often in informal settlements and relying on informal work. They remain largely invisible to aid systems designed to track camps rather than neighborhoods.

This invisibility has real consequences. For example, in Mogadishu, Somalia, nearly 40,000 people (most of them women) were evicted between January and July 2024.

Data, pattern identification, and analysis can help make this crisis visible, enabling more effective responses to urban displacement while protecting the most vulnerable.

Check out this short by Victoria Wachira, Monica Namanya, Juliet Tschank, and Sadam Garad exploring how the Making Displacement Safer Cookbook and lessons from the East Africa Migration Academy can help make urban displacement more effectively addressed 📌 https://loom.ly/GkrdUA

📢 Call for Volunteers: Become a Research Coach.

Join the U-Lead programme and support young people in building more inclusive communities.

➡️ What will you do?

- Co-facilitate a small group of youth researchers, working to build relationships and teamwork, and helping to ensure that youth have the tools and support to complete the programme.
- Guide youth in designing and conducting research.
- Foster an inclusive environment so participants feel confident and supported.
- Assist in the preparation and rehearsal of advocacy presentations, focusing on clarity and effectiveness of messaging.
- Act as a bridge between youth researchers and facilitators

*While flexibility is offered, volunteers are kindly asked to attend weekly meetings as consistently as possible to ensure steady support for the youth participants.

*The programme is in so B2 level is required.

*This call is for European University Institute members only.

📍 Weekly afternoon sessions from 1 October to 11 mber (in Italian).
📅 Apply by 8 September.
📧 Send your application to [email protected].



U-Lead is a model of how universities and research institutions can help shape a more inclusive, equitable society developed by the Migration Policy Centre at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and UNICEF Europe & Central Asia.

A policy that is coherent on paper can become complex in practice. A measure designed for clarity can produce ambiguity once it is applied across different levels of governance.

That is why can change when it reaches implementation, the moment where administrative systems, legal frameworks, political expectations, and operational capacity all meet, and often do not align neatly.

The Effective Migration Governance training offers tools to assess migration trade-offs and incorporate research findings into policy and practice.

➡️ Save your spot and learn from a distinguished group of academics and practitioners, including Kristin Fabbe, Lorenzo Piccoli, Martin Ruhs, Giulio Di Blasi, Clare Teresa Fox-Ruhs, Andrew Geddes, Eleonora Milazzo, Gerasimos Tsourapas, and Ulrich Weinbrenner, former Director General for Migration, Refugees and Return Policy at Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior 📌 https://loom.ly/42Fl2DA

🗓 5–7 October 2026

📍 Florence

This course is organised in partnership with the School of Transnational Governance

We just said goodbye to a new cohort of participants who have spent two weeks with us at the European University Institute.

🌏 This 22nd edition brought together a diverse group of 23 migration professionals from 21 countries, including Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela, as well as 19 speakers from 13 different countries!

➡️ Across ten days, we delved into asylum and refugee protection, attitudes towards migration, irregular migration, labour migration, migration drivers, and other aspects of governance. We also benefited from valuable presentations by participants, who brought their own regional perspectives and first-hand insights to the discussions.

Moreover, this year we introduced new practical sessions where participants worked on a piece of their own choosing and refined how they communicated it to policy audiences, with feedback and guidance.

🗣️ Finally, before handing out the certificates, today we held dedicated morning drop-in sessions so participants could discuss their projects with the professors of the Summer School.

To all the participants, thank you for joining us, and safe travels home! ✈️ We hope to stay in touch :)

A big thank you as well to the team and the instructors for their tireless hard work in making this edition a success 👏

If you're considering joining one of our courses, early bird registration is now open for our upcoming training, Effective Migration Governance, taking place from 5–7 October 2026 and organised in partnership with the School of Transnational Governance. Apply by 24 July 📌 https://loom.ly/42Fl2DA

Today, we welcomed Marcia Vera Espinoza (Deputy Director within the Institute for Global Health and Development, QMU) for a discussion on the factors shaping policy in .

We began by exploring the region's changing migration landscape. Latin America has long been a region of emigration, transit, return and destination (often all at the same time). 🔎 Since the early 2000s, migration within the region has increased significantly, alongside more diverse migration flows from outside the region. Then, since 2014, the displacement of millions of has become one of the defining drivers of regional mobility.

The discussion also highlighted how migration patterns are being reshaped by organised crime, economic pressures, changing migration policies, increasing returns and deportations, and the growing impact of climate-related hazards.

Professor Marzia also examined what makes Latin America unique in : the coexistence of international, regional and national protection frameworks. These include:

➡️ the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol and the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees at the international level

➡️ 1984 Cartagena Declaration and the Inter-American Human Rights System within the Organization of American States at the regional level

➡️ and national refugee legislation.

Finally, Marcia discussed the recent of refugee protection across the region. Drawing on examples from Brazil, Argentina and Chile, she explored how the implementation of asylum policies has become increasingly restrictive before, during and after the pandemic, risking the erosion of a refugee governance model.

Learn more about the weakening practices regarding refugee governance in Latin America 📌 https://loom.ly/NRfKF2U