On 27 January 2017, the Justice and Home Affairs Section of CEPS and
the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG
HOME) of the European Commission co-organised a policy
workshop in Brussels entitled “Reappraising the EU legal migration acquis:
Legal pathways for a new model of economic migration, and the role of
social science research”. The event brought together leading academics,
practitioners and European Commission representatives to assess and
discuss the state of play in the (internal and external) EU legal migration
acquis, and its role in developing legal pathways towards economic
migration.
Held under the Chatham House Rule, the policy workshop’s
roundtable discussions allowed participants to identify and address some of
the key challenges, inconsistencies and gaps in the standing EU policies and
legislation in the area of legal and economic migration. Scholars involved in
EU and nationally funded, collaborative research projects on social science
and humanities (SSH) had the opportunity to exchange interdisciplinary
knowledge with European Commission officials representing the different
services working on legal migration policies. The role and potential of
independent academic research in the framework of EU migration policymaking
were also discussed. The full programme of the policy workshop is
reproduced in the annex of this book