The Netherlands

The main migration policy instruments in the Netherlands:

Non-exhaustive list of key policy documents in the area of migration:

• National policies and legislation:
• Consult the Netherlands’ national law database.
• Consult recent publications of the European Migration Network.
• EU legislation:
• Consult the adopted EU legislation on Migration and Home Affairs
• Ratified international treaties:
• 1956/1968: ratification of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
• 2005: ratification of the 2000 Protocols on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants.

The main ministries in charge of migration affairs in the Netherlands:

• Ministry of Justice and Security: Together with its subordinate authorities it is the main body dealing with migration affairs, including immigration (entry, residence); border management and irregular migration; asylum; return and readmission; international migration policy.
• Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment: is responsible for integration policy, including civic integration and socio-economic participation.
• Ministry of Defence: border control duties at airports and maritime border-crossing points.

Sources:

• European Migration Network (2017): The Netherlands. EMN Country Fact Sheet 2017. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/20a_netherlands_country_factsheet_2017_en.pdf
• The Netherlands’ National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (2018): 2017 Annual Review. Migration and Asylum in the Netherlands. June 2018. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/20a_netherlands_armpart2_2017_en.pdf
• United Nations DESA-Population Division and UNICEF (2014): Migration Profiles - Common Set of Indicators. https://esa.un.org/MigGMGProfiles/Indicators/indicators.HTM

Last update: December 2018