MedMA’s workshop, led by communications expert Frank Sharry, equipped civil society actors with practical tools to craft powerful, values-driven narratives on migration and asylum.
Is a Mediterranean migration and asylum policy possible?
Who we are
Mission
Why "Mediterranean"
The Mediterranean Migration and Asylum Policy Hub (MedMA) aspires to build bridges between knowledge production, field work and policy-making.
The mission of MedMA is to serve as a source of authoritative, fact-driven research, innovative policy making, and a platform for the exchange of ideas related to asylum and reception, legal migration, integration and pathways to citizenship.
MedMA espouses the ‘Mediterranean’ not as an epistemological category, but as an under-represented viewpoint and as a springboard for out-of-the-box, innovative thinking in terms of migration and asylum policy.
Asylum Data: Beyond the EU Average
This note disaggregates Eurostat’s 2024 and Q1-2025 asylum data through a regional Mediterranean lens, showing how application intensity and recognition outcomes differ from EU-wide averages. It contrasts absolute volumes with per-capita pressure, highlights divergent decision profiles (first and final instance), and explains why a frontline focus matters for the credibility of the CEAS and the right to apply for asylum. The analysis does not seek to distort the wider European picture; it complements it, and points to gaps best addressed by flexible solidarity and calibrated national instruments. An accompanying set of interactive charts enables readers to explore the trends directly.
MIGRATION DATA REPOSITORY
Discover MedMA’s data repository on migration and asylum. You can learn and observe the development of migration policies in Greece through our user-friendly, interactive charts, across 12 thematic categories.
PUBLICATIONS
Amidst an era marked by information conflicts and polarization, MEDMA serves as a leading voice in shaping the discourse on migration through meticulous data analysis and research. Explore our repository of evidence-based policy analyses and informative pieces addressing current and pertinent issues in the field.
NEWS
A Mediterranean Perspective on Current Migration Governance- Joint Policy Paper by MedMA & STG
The paper builds on the High-Level Policy Dialogue held on 22 May 2025 at the EUI in Florence, co-organised by MedMA and the STG. The dialogue brought together policymakers, practitioners and researchers to examine the current configuration of migration governance in...
One Sea, One Pact – But Whose Data?
Last week, the European Commission unveiled the Pact for the Mediterranean, a new political framework meant to reshape the European Union’s relations with its southern neighbourhood. The new Pact is a policy framework developed by the European Commission’s Directorate...