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Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from - and sometimes ignorant of - each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen chapters come up with a number of common themes. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question, if not counter, simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourses, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives at various levels and via different methodological approaches and to acknowledge the state's role in shaping family-related migration, practices and lives. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from – and sometimes ignorant of – each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen chapters come up with a number of common themes. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question, if not counter, simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourses, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives at various levels and via different methodological approaches and to acknowledge the state’s role in shaping family-related migration, practices and lives.

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the primary fundamental rights concerns related to biometrics and their use in automated border controls (ABCs), as well as how these issues converge in the European Commission’s Smart Borders proposal. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws on extensive background research and qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in 2013 for the European Union (EU) FP-7 project “FastPass – A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automatic border crossing points”. Findings – The Smart Borders proposal not only compounds the individual concerns related to the use of biometrics in border controls and automatisation thereof, but also has serious issues of its own, premier among which is the imposition of a two-tier border control system. Social implications – The paper is a catalyst for open debate on the fundamental questions of how we got to this point and where do we want to go. It questions the process by which the increased use of IT in border controls has become the norm and policy trend in Europe, and discusses where the limits could be drawn from a fundamental rights perspective. In particular, it warns against the institutionalisation of a two-tier border control system among third-country nationals. Originality/value – Little attention is given to the fundamental rights concerns raised for EU and non-EU citizens as related to biometrics and their use in ABCs, and how these issues are reproduced in the Smart Borders proposal. The paper fills this gap by taking a bottom-up approach: examining the implications of individual elements of the proposal to see their impact on the broader policy.

A thourough investigation of possible rationales for regularisation, its impact, and the relationship of regularisation to the wider policy framework on migration and asylum.

In recent years there has been growing interest in research and policy about family migrations and migrant families, resulting in an increasing number of projects, 1 publications and specialised conferences. 2 In all European states the migration of family members, which includes those accompanying workers as well as those joining citizens and settled migrants, is significant in migratory flows. In Southern Europe, there has been a dramatic increase in family flows due to larger numbers of economic migrants, regularisation programmes and introduction of legislation for family reunification. However, family migration has generally not led to debates on this topic. In Northern European states, public debate has focused on the supposedly problematic and traditional migrant family, whether it be the subordinate spouse who does not participate in the labour market, unruly and easily radicalised boys or girls being forced to conform to backward practices, such as forced and arranged marriages (Grillo this volume; Hester, Chantler, Devgon, Sharma & Singleton 2008; Migrations Sociétés 2008; Preller 2008; Rude-Antoine 2005; Sauer & Strasser 2008). In some instances female migrants are considered as being a more easily 'assimilated' group compared to the stigmatisation of male migrants, particularly the second generation who are frequently viewed as deviants.

De grote meerderheid van EU-lidstaten gebruikt nu, of gebruikte in het laatste decennium, een vorm van migratiewetgeving. Toch is de migratiewetgeving een omstreden beleidsmiddel, als het gaat om de economische, fiscale en sociale effecten die ze met zich meebrengt. Tevens kan het ongewenste gevolgen hebben voor de mate waarin de migratiewetgeving illegale migratie opwekt, en in de zin dat het bestaande migratiemaatregelen tegenwerkt.

Throughout history, people in fear of persecution, violence, war, and other serious harm had to abandon their property and livelihoods to relocate to safer places. The most widely used term to refer to such persons is “refugees”. History abounds with stories of forced migration. One key element explaining the changed scope and nature of both conflict and persecution related displacement and at the same time shaping our very understanding of “refugeehood” is the emergence of citizenship as the primary social, economic, and political status marker in the nineteenth century across Western Europe, replacing earlier statuses and affiliations. Since the establishment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) some 70 years ago, UNHCR has offered protection and assistance to tens of millions of refugees and internally displaced persons, the latter mostly in cooperation with other agencies.