Publications

This inform provides information related to the implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), triggered in response to the refugee crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. According to UNHCR, as of 4 May 2022, over 5,7 million Ukrainians (mainly women and children) have left Ukraine in search of safety, primarily arriving in neighbouring EU and third countries (including Moldova). This inform relates to the scope of the Temporary Protection Directive, as well as registration of persons fleeing the war in Ukraine. The analysis in this inform is based on contributions provided by 26 Member States.

This inform maps the policies in place in European Union (EU) Member States to provide support to legally residing migrants and ensure their access to mental health services. It focuses on the underlying challenges that migrants face in accessing mental health services, and the practices developed by Member States to address these challenges.

This inform explores challenges and good practices to attract and retain international researchers, and analyses the implementation of the Students and Researchers Directive and relevant national policies, schemes and practices in the EU Member States.

This inform summarises the results of the EMN study of the same title which aims to explore the national practices of detection, identification and protection of third-country national victims of trafficking in human beings between 2015 and 2020.

The national report of Finland based on the study ‘Third-country national victims of trafficking in human beings: detection, identification and protection’. The purpose of this report is to establish an overview of Finnish practices pertaining to the detection, identification and protection of third-country national victims of trafficking in human beings. The report also highlights key challenges and good practices that have emerged in anti-trafficking efforts over the years.

This study aims to provide an overview of existing policies and practices in the EU Member States and Norway towards third-country nationals in a prolonged situation of irregular stay. The overall focus is on those third-country nationals subject to a return decision but whose return was not enforced or was postponed, and those without a return decision who are unknown to the authorities.

This study aims to provide an overview of existing policies and practices in the EU Member States and Norway towards third-country nationals in a prolonged situation of irregular stay. The overall focus is on those third-country nationals subject to a return decision but whose return was not enforced or was postponed, and those without a return decision who are unknown to the authorities.

This inform summarises the results of the EMN study of the same title which aims to close existing research gaps regarding Member States’ approaches to long-term
irregularly staying migrants, in light of rapid changes in policies and practices and the lack of a recent, comprehensive EU-overview for this group.

The Finnish National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (EMN) has compiled this statistical review from the statistics of the Finnish Immigration Service, Police and Finnish Border Guard as well as the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In addition, the EMN has produced the annual report on migration, which covers all aspects of migration and asylum in Finland in 2021. The report offers advanced information on phenomena, which this statistical review discusses in the light of figures.

The purpose of this report is to describe the Finnish legislation related to detention and less coercive precautionary measures and provide practical information on the degree to which precautionary measures are used. Furthermore, the report discusses the views of the police, the Border Guard and the Ministry of the Interior concerning whether less coercive precautionary measures really are an effective means of establishing an individual’s identity or the conditions for their entry into the country or, alternatively, to ensure their removal from the country.