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Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Studies

The Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration (EuroMedMig) is an independent interdisciplinary research network on migration and diversity on the Mediterranean. It seeks to be a platform promoting multilateral knowledge production, promotion, and exchange. EuroMedMig wants also to be a forum and space for exchanges and networking. Download Brochure to know more about this Network.

The Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration (EuroMedMig) is an independent interdisciplinary research network on migration and diversity on the Mediterranean. It seeks to be a platform promoting multilateral knowledge production, promotion, and exchange. EuroMedMig wants also to be a forum and space for exchanges and networking. Download Brochure to know more about this Network.

This three-year international project is funded by the Erasmus + Jean Monnet Network Program and coordinated by GRITIM-UPF, with six members of the EuroMedMig Network acting as partners, alongside 10 associate partners. More information can be found on the Erasmus + official website at the following address: Project Card

Information about its progress and related activities and publications are announced on EuroMedMig´s website.

LEAP Project

Since the 1963 Ankara Agreement, the EU Studies has been a significant academic area of interest in Turkey and most established Turkish universities opened EU Studies Centres including METU. In this respect, Turkey’s accumulated experience on researching European studies and the epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges posed by the prolonged EU integration process and studying the EU at the periphery of Europe (‘the periphery’ from now on) have been important academic assets for Turkish universities.

The urge to disassociate practical hurdles of the EU integration process from cutting-edge research on EU integration has been a challenging yet enriching experience for the European Studies in Turkey. Centre for European Studies at METU (CES-METU), which has been founded in 1997, is one of the leading research centres specializing on European integration within Turkey and its region. CES-METU has been a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in 2007 and is recognized as one of the best practices among the JMCEs in the world. With its openness to the civil society, accumulated knowledge on EU integration and academic expertise to explore the correlation between academic knowledge and everyday information on European integration, CES-METU is an institution which would be able to foster development of novel teaching, research or debating activities and knowledge exchange between countries which face similar challenges and hurdles. In this respect, the main research question of the LEAP is: ‘How is the EU integration taught, learned, experienced and contested at ‘the periphery’?’ and the focus will be on the cases of Turkey, Romania, Kosovo, Georgia and Ukraine (‘selected countries’ from now on). The notion ‘periphery’ for the aims of the LEAP entails candidate (Turkey), potential candidate (Kosovo) and neighbourhood countries (Georgia and Ukraine) as well as member countries (Romania) which also underlines the need to assess multifarious nature of the complexities/challenges attached to the EU integration.

Centre-periphery dichotomy with respect to the EU is both spatial in the sense that most of the candidate and neighbourhood countries of the EU are geographically far away from Brussels as well as structural in terms of regional disparities and economic asymmetries between core ‘Europe’ and its periphery.

Conference on “Race, Science and Eugenics in East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries” with a Round-table Discussion on “Medical and Anthropological Collections – Their Tainted Past and Problematic Future”

JEAN MONNET NETWORK PROJECT ON MIGRATION AND ASYLUM POLICIES SYSTEMS (MAPS)

Jean Monnet Network on MIGRATION AND ASYLUM POLICIES SYSTEMS (MAPS) is born within the context of the past experiences of Jean Monnet activities carried out in University of Naples “L’Orientale”. European universities have joined this project, including National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; University of A Coruña; University Jean Moulin Lyon 3; University of Malta; Universität Innsbruck; Queen Mary University London; University Goce Delchev; University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST); Stiftung Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

MAPS aim to create an international platform of know-how on legal tools and best practices for stakeholders and to provide a coherent framework for risk assessment and sustainable management of different implementation on migration and asylum policies in EU member States.

This project is committed to promote both new content and new research and debating activities at international as well as national level in the field of the European integration studies. Comparative research will investigate differences in the asylum and migration laws and policies of Member States including their implementation under stress as a consequence of the ongoing crises in Syria, Iraq, Central and East Africa.

Starting from EU proposal of May 4, 2016, to amend the asylum system, Dublin IV, MAPS aims at highlighting key changes relating to general principles and safeguards of asylum system and the Corrective Allocation Mechanism (CAM) as regards as clearly differentiate between deficiencies in the legal design of the system and in its implementation, analyzing weaknesses and the compliance with international law obligations to protect asylum claimants, refugees, and migrants in general.

MAPS purpose is to become a reference point in the European Union on migration/asylum issues areas and will take the role of multipliers and disseminate knowledge at national as international level through collecting and capitalizing information as well as provide analysis and perspectives on best practices.

At present, there is a lack of coordination between the academic institutions, the policymakers and the civil society organizations specialized in migration and asylum seekers at national as international level, and different implementation systems of reception, asylum and inclusion policies in EU member States imply the restrain of migrants’ integration process.

The website of the project is: https://www.mapsnetwork.eu/