Last year, the center of temporary shelters for irregular migrants in Lampedusa, the southernmost island of Italy, has been repeatedly denounced by the cases of alleged violations of human rights. This article presents an overview of developments...

The reality of the borders is associated with the history of mankind since the Neolithic agrarian revolution, carried out more than 10,000 years ago. Indeed, the process of sedentarisation of human societies, imposed the need to fix territorial...

This text explores the evolution of the management of borders of Ceuta and Melilla with Morocco, from the entry of Spain into the European Union in 1986. Examines the progressively acrobatic profile of euroafricanos border regimes with respect to...

Since the beginning of the 90s, the transformation of the political and economic structure of the region of Central Europe and Eastern led to new migratory trends, especially in Poland. In the past 17 years, Poland has become the country of...

The arrival of irregular foreigners to Spain and Italy still arousing media interest and leads to the perception that there is a problem of immigration control in the Mediterranean countries. However, it is argued here that Mediterranean...

This article examines the impact of the enlargement of the European Union (EU) eastward on the position of the Ukrainian minority in Poland. The enlargement process shows two contradictory facts in the peripheral countries on the borders of the...