State-of-the-art on labour migration in Europe, ADMIGOV Deliverable 3.1

This report provides a 'state-of-the-art' on European labour migration policies. It is part of Work Package 3 of the Advancing Alternative Migration Governance [ADMIGOV] project, which aims to promote migration governance models which take seriously the principles laid out in the the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrant and the Global Compact for Migration to study how alternative approaches to migration governance can be better designed and put into practice. What we aim to do in this work package is to identify whether temporary and circular labour migration schemes could help disentangle so-called mixed migration flows into Europe: i.e. making it attractive for migrants who claim asylum to apply for a work permit instead and thus offering more opportunities to deliver international protection to refugees.