Welcome to EVI-MED

“EVI-MED – Constructing an evidence base of contemporary Mediterranean migrations” seeks to conduct urgent data collection and essential analysis on the Mediterranean migration crisis and to make these swiftly and publicly available to policymakers, practitioners, migrant community support organisations, and the research community.

This ESRC-funded research project is lead by Middlesex University with the support of national, international and local partners. For further information read the ‘about’ page.

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EVI-MED Training Day – Catania (Italy)

“EVI-MED – Giornata di Formazione sull’Accoglienza”

Our second training event for practitioners working on refugees reception in the Mediterranean will take place on 20 September 2017 in Catania (Italy), in partnership with Borderline Sicilia and the University of Catania.
The working language will be Italian.
For further information visit our EVI-MED EventBrite page.

 

MMRP Policy Briefings

Three online policy briefings have been published by the ESRC-funded Mediterranean Migration Research Programme (MMRP). Informed by the findings of the eight project part of the programme – including Middlesex University’s EVI-MED – the policy briefings can be downloaded from the links below:

• Dynamics of migration across the Mediterranean
• Improving policy for search and rescue
• Refugee reception and integration
• Civil Society responses to the ‘Migration Crisis’

War and violence drive people fleeing to Europe by sea, not economics

Findings of our EVI-MED research project are presented in The Guardian newspaper today. The article highlights how results of our survey with 750 migrants in Greece, Italy and Malta challenge many of the myths around Mediterranean migration.  Read article here.

Multiple crises? EVI-MED event

Multiple crises? The many faces of migration and reception systems in the Mediterranean.

Monday 19 June 2017
Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT

Between 2015 and 2016 more than one million people crossed the Mediterranean, Many fleeing war and persecution. The reception of refugees and migrants has been a major plank of EU policy. This event reports on the findings of the EVI-MED project, an 18 month study which seeks to map and evaluate reception systems in the Mediterranean.
Drawing upon survey data of 750 people in Greece, Italy, and Malta and interviews with migrants and a diverse range of national and international stakeholders, this event presents an independent systematic assessment of the ways in which the EU and its partners have sought to handle the reception of unprecedented numbers refugees and migrants and their responses.

To download the programme click here

To download the first EVI MED report click here

For further information and to book a free place: https://evi-med.eventbrite.co.uk

IMISCOE Spring Conference 2017

The 2017 edition of the IMISCOE Spring conference will take place at Middlesex University on 17 February 2017. The extensive programme includes a presentation (by A. D’Angelo and E. Tozzi) of preliminary results of the EVI-MED survey with over 700 recently arrived migrants in the reception systems across the Mediterranean.
For information about the conference visit: https://mdxmigration.wordpress.com

Frontiere, Accoglienza e Diritti

Universita’ degli Studi di Palermo, 5/7/2016

 Frontiere Accoglienza e Diritti – Operatori, giuristi e ricercatori a confronto
(Frontiers, Reception and Rights – Knowledge Exchange event for practitioners, lawyers and researchers – EVI-MED Event – In Italian)

Questa giornata di lavoro e dialogo è promossa nell’ambito del progetto internazionale di ricerca ‘EVI-MED’ condotto dalla Middlesex University di Londra in collaborazione con Borderline Sicilia e l’Università degli Studi di Palermo – Clinica Legale per i Diritti Umani.

L’evento è aperto a tutti, ma si richiede la registrazione online.

Per informazioni ed iscrizioni clicca qui.

Refugee reception and humanitarian protection in Greece and Italy: evidence from the ground

June 22nd, Thessaloniki, Greece

“EVI-MED – Constructing an evidence base of contemporary Mediterranean migrations” seeks to conduct data collection  of migrant flows and experiences of the reception system  and essential analysis on the Mediterranean migration crisis and to make these swiftly and publicly available to policymakers, practitioners, migrant community support organisations, and the research community”

This seminar presents initial results from the EVI-MED project after the first wave of surveys in Greece and Italy and seeks to situate it within the wider context of asylum policy, humanitarian assistance and the reception system in Greece.

To see the full programme and to book a place, visit the EventBrite page.

Refugee reception and humanitarian protection in Greece and Italy: evidence from the ground

June 22nd, Thessaloniki, Greece

“EVI-MED – Constructing an evidence base of contemporary Mediterranean migrations” seeks to conduct data collection  of migrant flows and experiences of the reception system  and essential analysis on the Mediterranean migration crisis and to make these swiftly and publicly available to policymakers, practitioners, migrant community support organisations, and the research community”

This seminar presents initial results from the EVI-MED project after the first wave of surveys in Greece and Italy and seeks to situate it within the wider context of asylum policy, humanitarian assistance and the reception system in Greece.

To see the full programme and to book a place, visit the EventBrite page.

Scholars support UN Refugee Global Compact: open letter

A number of academics involved in the ESRC Mediterranean migration research programme – including the EVI-MED team – have signed a letter in support of the UN Refugee Global Compact. The document has been published on OpenDemocracy.

To read click here.

Search and Rescue at Sea: a Legal Obligation?

Humanitarian and legal perspectives on the ‘Refugee Crisis’
8 June 2016, Middlesex University (London)

An event co-organised by Middlesex University, AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), University of Palermo and CLEDU (Clinica Legale per i Diritti Umani)

For further information and to book a place visit the Eventbrite page.