Migration as a phenomenon has been a constant feature for many years now in the media, because of its often tragic consequences, but, of course, and above all, because of its social dimension. An analysis of the causes which force people to leave their surrounding environment, homes and families, driven by economic conditions or due to reasons involving persecution, is an essential part of this work, as is examining the way in which these migrations can be regulated in an effective, flexible manner that guarantees the rights of individuals, these two factors thereby forming different sides of the same coin.

Moving further towards a more factual part of the analysis, the Mediterranean Basin has become the melting pot where all of the dilemmas, shortages and dramas converge for migration in Africa, both as a place of origin and as a region of transit towards the European Union.
 
Believing that the reality of migration must be assumed as an ongoing fundamental political matter in the upcoming years, the seminar proposes a social analysis from both shores, from the Arab countries which send immigrants or become “bridges” for immigrants to countries in the southern EU, end recipients of these immigrants or sometimes just “bridges” on the immigrants’ paths. Thus, the main goal of the seminar is to draw representative organizations and institutions together around the aforementioned topics: organizations from different European and African countries, members of the RSMMS, the Office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Spain, the International Organization of Migrations (IOM), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and other institutions that may be involved in the seminar’s contents within the regional framework of the Mediterranean and those which may be mentioned throughout the course of the final drafting of this proposal.

The work will be divided into three panels: one on the fight for labor dignity and forced labor, another on migrations within a global context and the last on migrations in the EU and their current state of affairs.

Seminar information sheet