Migration Observatory Collected Publications 2019-20

This second collection of publications produced within the Prague Process Migration Observatory covers the period 2019-2020. It aims to inform migration decision-makers, specialists, scientists, academics and the interested public about ongoing migration trends and policy developments across the Prague Process region. The COVID-19 pandemic has limited the possibilities of travelling, meeting each other and socializing, all of which had been essential to make this intergovernmental dialogue a living organism. The unprecedented circumstances encouraged us to explore new possibilities and approaches, moving our work to the world of virtual meetings, online webinars and development of e-learning tools. The authors featured in this book are state representatives, academic experts or other specialists. Their contributions aim at raising awareness concerning a wide range of migration phenomena that affect people’s lives or even societies as a whole. The collected publications shall inform the interested reader and possibly inspire new ideas and initiatives for the future.

• Radim Zak, Alexander Maleev, Irina Lysak | ‘The 10th Anniversary of the Prague Process’
• Haykanush Chobanyan | ‘Armenia’s migration cooperation with the European Union and Eurasian Economic Union’
• Yan Matusevich | ‘The EU Central Asia Strategy and its impact on migration’
• Kristof Tamas | ‘Assessing the EU’s external migration policy’
• Glen Hodgson | ‘Intra-corporate Transferees: The benefits for the EU and the opportunity cost’
• Stefan Vogtenhuber | ‘Labour migration from East to West: The example of foreign workers in Austria’
• Dmitry Poletaev | ‘Russia’s migration policies after the dissolution of the Federal Migration Service’
• Andryi Orlean | ‘Countering Human Trafficking: Identifying, returning and assisting victims from Ukraine’
• Ruslan Minich, Pavlo Kravchuk | ‘The impact of COVID-19 on Ukrainian labour migrants in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Italy’
• Nermin Oruc, Danica Santic | The Western Balkan migration route (2015-2019)
• Rainer Münz | ‘How will migration to Europe look in the future? Trends, open questions and four plausible scenarios’