The Migrations Programme focuses its attention on the different aspects of the phenomenon of migration and, especially, on the process of constructing a common European immigration policy.

1. The European immigration policy

Based on the work begun in Tampere in 1999 and continued in The Hague in 2005, the EU member states have gradually been establishing the mechanisms and instruments to achieve a European immigration policy.

2. Management of immigration and coexistence

On the one hand, managing immigration means speaking about migration flows and border control, management and control of irregular migration flows and fighting against trafficking in human beings. But, it also means speaking about relations with third countries, co-operation with countries of origin and of transit, etc. All of these issues form part of the area of research within this field of study.

3. Immigration in Spain

In little more than a decade, Spain has gone from being a country of emigration to one of immigration, with the transformations that this signifies in the social and economic spheres, but also in regard to political and social discourses. One of Spain’s challenges is to accommodate immigration into social and institutional structures that were not designed for these new citizens.

4. Refugees and other human movements

Despite the attention that the issue of immigration awakens in receiving societies, and especially in the European Union, there are other types of human movements that, numerically, are very important, even more important, and that need to be studied and explained with attention.