Publications
The network’s key outputs include annual reports on migration and asylum, thematic studies, Informs on issues of immediate priority, ad-hoc queries, and the EMN Asylum and Migration Glossary.
All publications from 2017 onwards are available on our website. To request older publications, please contact us at emn@migri.fi. Studies and reports are sometimes also published in print. The publications are also available on the network’s international website(siirryt toiseen palveluun).
Annual reports on migration and asylum outline the most significant political and legislative
developments and debates in the EMN Member States and at EU-level in the year.
The reports provide a unique overview of migration and asylum-related developments.
This study provides an overview of general integration policy and labour market integration policy in Finland. The focus of the study is on policies and practices supporting the labour market integration of third-country nationals who have a residence permit and a right to work in Finland. The study offers examples of promising labour market integration measures implemented by the public sector and tailored employment-related initiatives provided by the private sector
The study reviews the impact that the visa liberalisations of the Western Balkan and the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries have on Finland. The review employs a number of different indicators, such as the border crossings, residence permit applications and asylum applications made by citizens of the countries in question, as well as the tourism and crime attributable to them.
The aim of this study is to explore what policies and practices are in place in Finland to attract and retain third-country national students. The study focuses on third-country nationals entering Finland to study in a higher education institution. The study covers issues such as factors attracting students to Finland, admission criteria, hosting and rights of international students, as well as access to the Finnish labour market after graduation. In this study, the term “international student” refers to third-country national students from non-EU/EEA countries.
This Study examines the measures taken in Finland to respons to the fluctuation in the number of asylum seekers in the years 2015-2016. The measures taken by authorities in 2015 and 2016 have been partly evaluated, by either internal or external parties. When evaluated as a whole, the authorities’ measures were successful in the respect that all asylum seekers were registered and accommodated; it was ensured that they receive statutory basic service and their applications were processed according to the Aliens Act. The long-term impacts of the measures are not evaluated in this study.
This Report presents the main findings of the 2017 EMN Study Approaches to Unaccompanied Minors Following Status Determination in the EU plus Norway. The study covers the period 2014-2017, thereby following up on previous EMN research on unaccompanied minors. It may serve to inform further the approaches of EU Member States plus Norway to the protection of unaccompanied minors following status determination and to inform action on this at EU level.
This study provides an overview of the changes to national strategies, approaches and measures in response to the unprecedented migratory movements to EU Member
States and Norway between 2014 and 2016.
This Report presents the main findings of the EMN Study on Attracting and retaining international students in the European Union (EU). The study is very topical in light of the transposition of the Students and Researchers Directive ((EU)2016/801) which sets out a common framework for admission and residence of students from third countries in the EU. A key focus of the study is the underlying policy rationale for attracting and retaining international students and whether this is a policy priority in Member States.
The glossary’s main focus continues to be legal developments in the framework of the EU acquis on asylum and migration. It intends to make communication easier for policy-makers, legislators, practitioners, media and people interested in the topic of migration and asylum. Printed versions are only published if they contain substantial changes. The last printed version was published as Version 6.0 in May 2018.
This report gives an overview of the developments in immigration and asylum policy that have taken place in Finland in 2018. The report goes through developments in legislation, policy and practice. The report also contains a wide array of immigration statistics. This publication contains both the English and Finnish version.