Treat the root causes of the asylum crisis, not the symptoms. CEPS commentary, 11 September 2015 Friday, 11 September 2015

In the wake of the long-awaited State of the Union address delivered by Jean-Claude Juncker on September 9th, Sergio Carrera and Karel Lannoo express deep disappointment with the EU’s response, both in scope and in ambition. In their view, two key challenges lie behind the current asylum crisis. First, existing EU rules do not fit the purpose and the second challenge relates to the systemic failure of states like Greece, Hungary and Italy to adhere to the democratic rule of law principles and fundamental rights.

Enhancing the Common European Asylum System and Alternatives to Dublin. CEPS Liberty and Security in Europe No. 83/September 2015

Upon request by the LIBE committee, this study examines the reasons why the Dublin system of allocation of responsibility for asylum seekers does not work effectively from the viewpoint of Member States or asylum-seekers. It argues that as long as it is based on the use of coercion against asylum seekers, it cannot serve as an effective tool to address existing imbalances in the allocation of responsibilities among Member States. The EU is faced with two substantial challenges: first, how to prevent unsafe journeys and risks to the lives of people seeking international protection in the EU; and secondly, how to organise the distribution of related responsibilities and costs among the Member States. This study addresses these issues with recommendations aimed at resolving current practical, legal and policy problems.

Migration and Asylum Data for Policy-making in the European Union – The problem with numbers. CEPS Liberty and Security in Europe No. 89/March 2016

Among many other problems, the migration, humanitarian and policy crises in the European Union in 2015 and early 2016 have highlighted a pressing need for reliable, timely and comparable statistical data on migration, asylum and arrivals at national borders. In this fast-moving policy field, data production and the timeliness of dissemination have seen some improvements but the sources of data remain largely unchanged at national level. In this paper the author examines the reasons for some of the problems with the data for policy and for public discussion, and makes a set of recommendations that call for a complete and updated inventory of data sources and for an evaluation of the quality of data used for policy-making.

Rethinking asylum distribution in the EU: Shall we start with the facts? CEPS Commentary, 17 June 2016

Ten months of what has alternatively been called a "refugee crisis", a "migrant crisis" and a "migrant and asylum crisis" in the EU has fuelled an exceptionally vivid discussion about statistics. All member states are required to provide Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, with data on immigration and asylum in accordance with a regulation that sets out clear and concise rules on what data must be submitted.[1] The purpose of the regulation is to ensure that the data on migration and asylum the member states provide to Eurostat for publication is comparable across all EU countries.

Asylum : approval rates for selected applicants : fact sheet for the honorable Arlen Specter, United States Senate /

GAO/GGD-87-82FS

Refugees and U.S. asylum seekers from Central America : statement of Nancy R. Kingsbury, Director, Foreign Economic Assistance Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division; before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives.

"For release ... March 9, 1989."

Top: Res. of Sherman Hinckley, Sec 35 & 36 Pittsfield Tp. Mich. Bottom: Washtenaw Co. Poor House & Insane Asylum, Pittsfield Tp. Mich.

Pittsfield Township (Mich.) residences. Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Everts & Stewart, 1874.

An account of the Boston asylum for indigent boys ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the New York Juvenile Asylum to the legislature of the state and to the Common Council of the City of New York, presented at the annual meeting of the association.

Title varies slightly.

A letter from a subscriber to the York lunatic asylum to the governors of that charity ...

An answer to William Mason's Animadversions.

The wonder-seeker, or, The history of Charles Douglas /

A young clergyman, Mr. Stanley, befriends a spoiled neighbor-boy, Charles Douglas.

Farrar's illustrated guide book to Moosehead Lake and vicinity, the wilds of northern Maine, and the head-waters of the Kennebec, Penobscot, and St. John rivers : with a new and correct map of the lake region, drawn and printed expressly for this book : also contains the game and fish laws of Maine (as rev. by the last Legislature), railroad, steamboat, and stage routes, time tables, tables of fares, list of hotels, prices of board, and other valuable information for the sportsman, tourist, or pleasure-seeker /

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the superintendent and board of managers of the Southwestern Insane Asylum at San Antonio, Texas, for the fiscal year ending October 31 ...

Description based on: 4th (1895).

Biennial report of the trustees, superintendent, etc., of the Northern Illinois hospital and asylum for the insane ...

Title varies slightly.

A second appeal to the people of Pennsylvania on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor of the Commonwealth.

The first appeal was published in 1833.