What happens when a pact made in response to crisis meets one? 7 weeks after the EU Pact took effect, Ceuta crossings offered an early answer: its crisis tools weren’t used, and the European Commission was already proposing new ones.

This snapshot examines access to information among refugees and migrants travelling towards Senegal and how information shapes their journeys and experiences.

Explore key findings and policy recommendations for strengthening climate mobility governance, anticipatory action and protection in the East and Horn of Africa

The mass movement into Ceuta tested Europe’s new migration pact, exposing vulnerabilities in externalised migration control and the human cost of border policies.

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Explore return migration to Venezuela, including why refugees and migrants are returning and the challenges they expect to face after arrival

Cette étude de cas vise à comprendre l’impact des changements climatiques sur les décisions de mobilité et d’immobilité des agriculteur∙rice∙s de la région de Sikasso, au sud-est du Mali, à la frontière avec la Côte d’Ivoire

Explore return migration to Venezuela, including why refugees and migrants are returning and the challenges they expect to face after arrival

Five years after the 2021 Ceuta crossing triggered a diplomatic rupture between Madrid and Rabat, 30 July’s deadly scenes in the tiny Spanish enclave thrust Morocco back to the centre of Europe’s migration debate. But Spain quietly resolved the crisis and most people returned.

The shift in policies from protection to return assumes that return represents a durable solution.

The Ceuta influx is the first major test of the EU migration pact that has been in force since June.

With legal pathways to the US closed and sanctions worsening conditions in Cuba, Cuban mixed migration is changing, people are settling across Latin America, often with little support.

4Mi data on the experiences of refugees and migrants in Italy: violence on route, safety as a driver of destination decisions, and how motivations shifted over time.

EU Migration and Asylum Pact is now the central legislative pillar of European migration policy, alongside the EU's broader five-year migration strategy, an expanding web of migration partnerships with transit countries, and a growing set of tools - from the new Return Regulation to the EU's first-ever Visa Strategy - designed to manage both irregular arrivals and legal mobility.

An overhaul of immigration and asylum policy enters into force across the European Union on Friday, a decade in the ​making, as EU countries have come under pressure from far-right nationalist parties.

Explore the experiences of Syrian returnees post-Assad fall. Discover factors driving return and challenges faced in reintegration across Aleppo, Homs, and Idleb.

AI, surveillance technologies and private actors are reshaping migration management, driving a global shift toward securitised and privatised border control.

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