DG HOME is the European Commission’s department responsible for policies in migration, asylum, internal security, and border management. It aims to ensure a safer, more secure European Union, balancing the need for open, fair migration and asylum frameworks with strong measures for border and internal security.
The official European Union website on Mygration and Asylum statistics.
Main Topics: international migration and citizenship; asylum; managed migration; children in migration; migrant integration.
The OECD’s work on migration focuses on analyzing international migration flows, policies, and their socio-economic impacts
Founded in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the main intergovernmental body on migration. Italy is a founding member. The IOM Rome Mission coordinates activities across the Mediterranean under the guidance of the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia in Vienna.
Pastoral Body of the Italian Episcopal Conference. Annual reports on immigrants, refugees, and Italian emigration worldwide.
Established in 1984, the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) is the single, official repository for the historical documents of the institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union. It preserves and makes available, under the 30-year access rule, the archival documents of EU institutions for research purposes. It also holds more than 160 private collections of European personalities, key politicians, movements and associations.
The state-of-the-art archival vaults, located beneath Villa Salviati in Florence, Italy, hold approximately 9000 linear meters of documents. Nearly 650,000 items are described in the online database, including around 560,000 files, more than 900 oral history interviews, 60,000 photographs, and more than 8200 audio recordings, 1200 video recordings, and approximately 60,000 digitalised files.
European University Institute
UK government website on the UK’s relationship with the EU
Maintained by The National Archives (UK) in London on behalf of the UK government
Large collection of EU materials. The LSE was officially designated as a European Documentation Centre in 1964.
Large legal collection
Considerable number of links to sources on different aspects of the EU
The Jean Monnet Project "Fit4EU – Teacher Trainings for a Target Group-Specific Civic Education on the European Union" offers teachers multi-module trainings on how to teach civic education on the European Union. Participants learn approaches that are methodologically diverse, practical, academically grounded, and cognitively activating.
Migration Matters was founded in 2016 in Berlin by four migrant women in response to media coverage about the so-called ‘refugee crisis’. We make research, evidence, and original perspectives on migration accessible to the public to encourage evidence-based debate and combat increasing polarization and discrimination.