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THESIM. Towards Harmonised European Statistics of International Migration. Nicolas Perrin perrin@sped.ucl.ac.be Michel Poulain poulain@sped.ucl.ac.be GéDAP/UCL. Context of the project.
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THESIM Towards Harmonised European Statistics of International Migration Nicolas Perrin perrin@sped.ucl.ac.be Michel Poulain poulain@sped.ucl.ac.be GéDAP/UCL
Context of the project • EU is facing an urgent need for better statistics on migration and asylum to support the development of a common EU migration policy • International migration statistics are among the less reliable statistics • A forthcoming EU regulation on international migration and asylum statistics will come into force => Within the 6th Framework Programme for Research, THESIM has been selected in order to: • Support the implementation of the regulation • Help countries to fulfill their tasks
Organisationof the THESIM consortium • Austria (ICMPD) • Belgium (UCL), coordinator • Estonia (EKDK) • France (INED) • Italy (ICSTAT) • Netherlands (NIDI) • Poland (CEFMR)
THESIM objectives • Compare definitions and concepts related to international migration • Analyse available data in order to see • What the data reveals • Where are the main problems in terms of reliability and comparability • Integrate data on asylum with data on flows and stocks • Describe and analyse efforts done on bilateral and international levels • Propose pratical recommendations in order to improve the situation
Expected outputs and deliverables • An update of the statistical documentation will be available soon (January) for each country concerning: • Legal migrations • Immigrations • Emigrations • Stocks of foreign populations • Residence permits • Acquisitions of citizenship • Illegal migration (partially / CIREFI data) • Thematic reports • Comparability of CIREFI data • Links between legal and illegal migrations • Comparisons of international database…