Cities

Migration Profile provides an introduction to migration challenges in Beirut. While only focusing on a snapshot of immigration rather than emigration in the city, the profile aims to improve our understanding of challenges in relation to migrants in Beirut (population...

The article examines how framing theory and media frames can be used in intercultural communication. If the process of framing is defined as the “selection of some aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in a communicating”...

The Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM) brings together experts and cities to contribute to improved migration governance at city level, including migrants' access to basic services and human rights. Implemented since 2015, the project is working with the cities of...

The migration of thousands of people who, every year escape conflict, repression and poor economic stability in their home country, attempt the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. While some do make it, questions are being posed...

Following a mobility approach, this chapter considers the complexity and variety of mobilities in the Basin to frame our group’s research. The research is about the geographical complexities but also opportunities of multiple evolutions of the Mediterranean Basin flows, between...

Europe has talked itself into a refugee and security crisis. There is, however, a misrecognition of the real challenge facing Europe: the challenge of managing the relationship between Europeans and the currently stigmatized ‘others’ which it has attracted. Making the...

The Council of Europe and its partner cities have developed an intercultural approach to issues of integration which enables cities to reap the benefits and minimize the risks related to human migration and cultural diversity. Its key elements are: creating...

Unsolved conflicts in the Middle East, demographic changes and unfavourable socio-economic situation in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean produced migrants and refugees flows on unprecedented scale. This volume examines the socio-economic impact of those flows and policy responses, focusing on...

Migration in the Mediterranean region is a widely debated and much studied topic. This is due to the present refugee crisis, consequences of Arab revolutions, the proximity with emigration and transit countries, but also to the involvement of southern European...

La région de la Méditerranée de l Ouest vit une dynamique migratoire particulièrement intense. Chevauchant deux continents et des espaces culturels, économiques et géopolitiques différenciés, cette région devient le confluent de flux migratoires multiples. Ce laboratoire, où interagissent les flux...