The three areas of the Mediterranean: the Maghreb-Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East, each present particular characteristics of population displacement. But whether they are refugees – whose numbers are constantly increasing – or economic migrants, Europe’s mechanisms for dealing with them remain essentially national and are failing to adapt to the demands of this new situation.

You can read this paper in French: Une nouvelle donne migratoire

Article published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 80, No. 3, Autumn 2015