The European response and strategies in the Middle East

The European response and strategies in the Middle East: Iraq and Syrian conflicts, Islamic Terrorism and Humanitarian Crisis by Carlo Paternollo. Paper, september 2017 The humanitarian crisis in the Middle East, arising from the Syrian civil war and exacerbated by ISIS actions...

Contemporary Jihadism: a generational phenomenon

Contemporary Jihadism: a generational phenomenon By Giulia Mezzetti Contemporary jihadism can be described as a generational phenomenon, due to the young age of those involved in it, and to specific circumstances and characteristics concerning the generation they belong to. The...

Getting to the root of the problem. A policy perspective on how the EU is tackling migration through development

Getting to the root of the problem. A policy perspective on how the EU is tackling migration through development By Luca Merotta. Paper, July 2017 Confronted with consistent streams of migrants, the EU has progressively externalised its migration policy by embedding migration...

Violence Against Refugee and Migrant Women

Violence Against Refugee and Migrant Women. The Reproduction of Gender Discrimination and Inequality by Lia Lombardi, Paper, May 2017 The article discusses the issue of violence against women by analysing the forms of domination and subjugation that reproduce the violent dynamics...

Immigration, Europe and the French Elections

The present paper is published in the framework of Fondazione ISMU’s strategic line of research Immigration and the future of Europe Paper, April 2017 by Luca Merotta, Livia Ortensi, Marta Regalia and Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem In the prospect of the French elections,...

Migration as a theme of the electoral campaign in The Netherlands

Migration as a theme of the electoral campaign in the Netherlands. A snapshot of the foreign population by Livia Elisa Ortensi, Paper, March 2017 On March, the 15th, 2017, 12,9 million of Dutch voters are called to the polls; 850 thousand of them are youngster to vote for the...

Reshaping the External Dimension of EU Asylum Policy: the Difficult Quest for a Comprehensive Approach

Reshaping the External Dimension of EU Asylum Policy: the Difficult Quest for a Comprehensive Approach by Roberto Cortinovis. Paper, January 2017 The increasingly protracted character of many displacement situations worldwide has led the international community to introduce...