Hein de Haas

Why do people migrate? This question is both simple and difficult. On the one hand, it seems reasonable to assume that most people migrate ...

While the hundreds of people who died off the coast of Lampedusa are granted post mortem Italian citizenship, public prosecutors are planni...

The disaster of the sinking of a boat on 3 October 2013 off the coast of Lampedusa, which cost the life to hundreds of refugees and migrant...

In my previous  blogpost , I expressed skepticism on the question whether the upcoming High Level Dialogue (HLD) on Migration and Developme...

On 3 and 4 October, the General Assembly of the United Nations will hold the High-Level Dialogue (HLD) on Migration and Development . This ...

Last month, the British government celebrated the news that net migration to the UK has fallen by a third , according to data  released by...

Governments and international organizations often stress how voluntary the return of involuntary migrants is. This begs an important questi...

This week, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched an appeal to raise 620,000 euros to " help desperate African mi...

Leading up to national elections in the Netherlands, which took place on 12 September, I have been closely following the debates between pa...

Who could have thought this just a few years ago? With the economic crisis hitting many countries hard, and unemployment soaring, Europeans...