From June 29 - 10 July 2009 Odysseus Network is offering a summer school course at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in European Law and Policy on Immigration & Asylum.

[29 April, 2009 by Elizabeth Eames Roebling in IPS] Elias Pina sits in a fertile high mountain valley on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Twice weekly, the side streets fill with Haitians and Dominicans trading produce, used clothing, kitchen equipment and shoes.

The merchants, predominantly women, pay a fee to the town for a place to sit and spread their merchandise. There is an occasional man selling low-end electronics, sunglasses, and pirated DVDs. Most of the men have tables while the women sit on the ground.

 [5 May, 2009 by Jim Luce in the Huffington Post] As the world economy collapses, the lifeline to already-impoverished Haiti has run thin. One third of Haiti's economy flows through remittances -- through companies such as Western Union and Moneygram -- from overseas family members sending cash home.

The UNESCO book «Migration without borders. Essays on the free movement of people» has received great interest amongst researchers and politicians since its publication in English in 2007. It is now available to a wider audience, having been translated into French and Spanish, as well as Russian.