Title:Irregular Migration – The Case of Egypt
Author(s):BADAWY, TarekDate:2008Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:Egypt hosts thousands of foreign nationals, a small percentage of whom are considered regular migrants or recognized refugees. This paper will outline the different legal tools that bind non-Egyptians and explore the ...
Title:Irregular Migration, Palestinian Case: Demographic and socioeconomic perspectives
Author(s):LUBBAD, IsmailDate:2008Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:In this paper, particular attention is given to Palestinian refugees since they comprise over half of the world-wide Palestinian population. Demographic and economic data is used to study the impact of refugees on Palestinian ...
Title:Irregular Migration: Incentives and Institutional and Social Enforcement
Author(s):VENTURINI, AlessandraDate:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:National and international migration laws determine the legal or illegal status of a migrant. For any given legislation the number of illegal migrants depends on the social-political and economic conditions of the sending ...
Title:Irregularity as Normality among Immigrants South and East of the Mediterranean
Author(s):FARGUES, PhilippeDate:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) countries have become receivers of international migrants without the instruments and policies for integrating them. As a result, irregular migration has grown faster that regular ...
Title:Is Conflating Climate with Energy Policy a Good Idea?
Author(s):ELLERMAN, A. DennyDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This essay reviews the evolution of energy policy and climate policy in the United States and notes that the difference between the two has become increasingly less. In the nearly forty years that energy has been a public ...
Title:Is there (still) an East-West divide in the conception of citizenship in Europe?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; LIEBICH, AndréDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:It is common in the literature on nationalism and citizenship to distinguish between civic conceptions
of the political community that are seen to prevail in Western Europe and North America and ethnic
ones that are said ...
Title:Is There a European Way of War? Role Conceptions, Organizational Frames and the Utility of Force
Author(s):VENNESSON, Pascal; BREUER, Fabian; DE FRANCO, Chiara; SCHROEDER, Ursula C.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Europe is the region of the world where the network of security institutions is the densest. Yet, these institutions did not erase differences about conceptions of force employment among European countries and between ...
Title:Is There a Legal Duty to Address World Poverty?
Author(s):SALOMON, Margot E.Date:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:States are reticent to support the idea that they have human rights obligations to people other than their own. However decades of United Nations consideration and human rights standard-setting in the area of international ...
Title:Islam and Secular Modernity under Western Eyes:A Genealogy of a Constitutive Relationship
Author(s):BRACKE, Sarah; FADIL, NadiaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper considers the theoretical operations involved in sustaining secular modernity within the realm of social theory. It seeks to understand how the secular operates as an epistemological formation. We examine a set ...
Title:L'islam en France
Author(s):AMIRAUX, ValerieDate:2004Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Islamic and Secular Feminisms: Two Discourses Mobilized for Gender Justice
Author(s):BAHI, RihamDate:2011-05-23Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The role of women in Islam is invested with diverse meanings and discourses. The state, religious
authorities, traditional Islamists and reformist intellectuals all claim the right to define the role of
women in the ...
Title:Islamic Feminism and Reforming Muslim Family Laws
Author(s):AL-SHARMANI, MulkiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper, I will engage with some of the recent literature that attempts to define, map out, analyze, categorize, and critique a growing body of academic scholarship that has emerged in the late 80s and early 90s and ...