EMN Informs provide succinct key findings and messages to policymakers on a specific topic based on the results of information gathered and analysed by the EMN, for example, from Reports and Studies, or from Ad-Hoc Queries.

EMN Inform: Exploring legal pathways to fulfil labour needs

EMN Informs are primarily intended for policymakers and other practitioners and provide a brief summary of the main policy-relevant findings from an EMN activity. This Inform aims to explore Member States’ experiences with new legal pathways, namely Talent Partnerships and complementary work-related pathways for those in need of international protection.

EMN OECD Umbrella Inform: The impact of COVID-19 in the migration area in EU and OECD countries

EMN Informs are primarily intended for policymakers and other practitioners and provide a brief summary of the main policy-relevant findings from an EMN activity. The European Migration Network (EMN) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have launched a collaboration that will result in a series of informs on the impact of COVID-19 in different areas of migration in the EU Members States, Norway and the UK. Between July 2020 and January 2021, five Informs were published, which this comprehensive document seeks to summarize. It seeks to illustrate and analyze the key findings and identified difficulties, and also to update the Inform's results based on the data available as of 31st of December 2020.

EMN Inform #1: EU and OECD Member States responses to managing residence permits and migrant unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic

EMN Informs are primarily intended for policymakers and other practitioners and provide a brief summary of the main policy-relevant findings from an EMN activity. The European Migration Network (EMN) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have launched a collaboration that will result in a series of informs on the impact of COVID-19 in different areas of migration in the EU Members States, Norway and the UK. The first publication was released on the 30th of July.

EMN Inform: Pathways to citizenship for third-country nationals in the EU

EMN Informs are primarily intended for policymakers and other practitioners and provide a brief summary of the main policy-relevant findings from an EMN activity. This Inform presents the main research findings of the EMN Study „Pathways to citizenship for third-country nationals in the EU”. By exploring the national policies in EU Member States regarding the acquisition of citizenship for third-country nationals, this EMN Study provides a comparative overview of recent trends, frameworks and good practices from 25 Member States.

EMN Inform: Long-Term Resident Status in the EU

EMN Informs are primarily intended for policymakers and other practitioners and provide a brief summary of the main policy-relevant findings from an EMN activity. This Inform summarises the main findings of four EMN Ad-hoc queries highlighting specific elements of the long-term resident status in the EU and the state of play of the implementation of the Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents in Member States.

EMN Inform: Annual Report on Migration and Asylum 2019

EMN Informs are primarily intended for policymakers and other practitioners and provide a brief summary of the main policy-relevant findings from an EMN activity. This EMN Inform offers a concise overview of the main topics covered in the Annual Report on Migration and Asylum 2019 including developments in the fields of legal migration, international protection; unaccompanied minors and vulnerable groups; integration; citizenship and statelessness; borders, visa and Schengen governance; illegal migration including smuggling; return and readmission; human trafficking and migration and development.

EMN Inform: Comparative Overview of National Protection Statuses in the EU and Norway

EMN Informs are primarily intended for policymakers and other practitioners and provide a brief summary of the main policy-relevant findings from an EMN activity. This Inform presents the main findings of the European Migration Network (EMN) study ‘Comparative overview of national protection statuses in the European Union (EU) and Norway’. The study explores the key characteristics of non-harmonised protection statuses and the types of national statuses granted by Member States and Norway to address a protection need not covered by international protection statuses as set out in the Qualification Directive or temporary protection in the Temporary Protection Directive.