Rut Bermejo

Rey Juan Carlos University | URJC · Departamento de Derecho Público I y Ciencia Política

Digital technologies are a reality across the world. Both migrants and non-migrants use and rely on technologies (smart phones, internet, digital networks) to organise their lives, contact family and friends, and develop their skills and work prospects. Through life stories with migrant women settled in Madrid, our study tries to understand their u...

This book reviews the state of violent radicalisation in Spain. The first part analyses mobilisation and the state of threat, the second part deals with instruments of detection and measurement of violent radicalisation and the third part presents how different institutions, have responded to this phenomenon. Some practical cases are also explained...

This article explores the melting pot of jihadists and criminals that has featured in some of the most significant jihadist attacks and plots foiled in Spain over the last 15 years. Applying Felson’s offender convergence settings theory to this case, we argue that the confluence of criminality and jihadism observed in other European contexts has al...

The fight against human smuggling and irregular migration is a worldwide priority. Removal of persons irregularly living in a European country is said to be a means of deterring irregular migration. In this context, detention to secure removal of those who enter or stay irregularly is proclaimed to be an effective instrument in European policies. H...

The health crisis the world is going through is arguably the first contemporary “global crisis” that threatens the world with generalized anomy and its new economic option, globalization. It has struck China, settles in Europe, strikes heavily in the United States and Latin America, and is spreading rapidly in other continents. The same problem has...

Based on two extended qualitative research projects conducted between 2017 and 2022, this paper analyses the refugee reception programme (RP) in Spain, which is managed both by the central state and some specialised social organisations. This cross-sectoral RP presents notable and enduring problems, which have deepened since the increase in asylum...

Focus groups (FGs) are a well-known and widely established qualitative research method. When conducting them in an online setting, we are faced with specific challenges such as a lack of non-verbal communication, less spontaneous interactions between participants, and issues in maintaining attention during longer online sessions. Yet, online settin...

Based on the analysis of 37 interviews and 3 focus group discussions conducted under the Horizon 2020 PERCEPTIONS research project, this article describes how structural, political, institutional and economic barriers greatly infringe upon the rights of migrants and work against their successful integration in destination states. The research condu...

A new and updated version of the chapter on Spain. It analyses the policy for controlling immigration in the country

This APSA Migration & Citizenship Newletter introduces a Symposium on International Human Mobility, guest edited by Rut Bermejo-Casado and Miryam Hazán. Contributors to the symposium include senior and junior scholars in the field, who question old conceptual frameworks for analyzing IHM in the light of the most recent developments around the worl...

This chapter explores the uses of technology by migrant women who have recently arrived in Spain. Given that ICTs have become an essential element in migration processes, the main objective of this research is to analyse these uses based on 16 semi-structured in-depth interviews: seven with migrant women who arrived in Europe after 2015 and nine wi...

Results from PERCEPTIONS project

El concepto de radicalización violenta está continuamente en revisión. Uno de los aspectos en discusión es la relevancia que tiene cada uno de los términos que lo componen: radicalización y violencia. Este trabajo bascula hacia el segundo término, intentando una aproximación al riesgo/vulnerabilidad a la radicalización violenta de los jóvenes desde...

El presente trabajo aborda la definición del execrable problema de la trata de seres humanos. Comienza con el análisis del concepto de trata de seres humanos y sus elementos a través de la normativa internacional y europea del siglo XXI. A continuación, aborda las similitudes, diferencias y conexiones con el tráfico de personas. Además, se revisan...

This chapter analyses the actions and policies followed by the spanish goverment and society in the fight against ETA organization terrorism

The chapter reviews public opinion ideas and attitudes towards immigration. The aim of this first part is to assess public opinion influence on current (and future) policy developments in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) and as a consequence, in public policies on migration and asylum. In the second part, some of the relevant aspect...

The contributions to this book stem from an international conference entitled ‘Ideas for the Future of Europe’ and focus on ideas and challenges in the context of existing crises in Europe and particularly in the European Union. In doing so, it adopts both a historical and a political science perspective. This volume addresses the quintessential th...

This report analysis the need of CVE training among criminal justice professionals in Spain

This report analyse the needs of training among criminal justice professionals, the instruments at their disposal and the degree of implementation

Interactive multisectoral manual to insert FGM/C in academic training

Manual para insertar la MGF en la formación académica a estudiantes de medicina, enfermería, educación, trabajo social, estudios de género, comunicación, antropología, etc. Formato pdf, con capítulos sectoriales.

A brief analysis of the links between smugling and trafficking in human beings. How it is evolving in Europe and public and governmental responses

The use of language requirements in public policies on immigration can be a mechanism to control the flows and select those who access the country or an instrument to foster inclusion integration. This working paper analyses its use in different European countries.

This review of the edited volume deals with different analysis of the relationship between migration and security. The causes, effects, links, etc. are present in all the different chapters. This issue was not only important at that point but is clearly on of the political and social phenomenon for the following years.

An analysis of the linkages between immigration and security must consider three basic issues and tasks. First of all, it must look at the definition of the concepts in use: threat, referent object and the logic or rationale that brings both concepts together. Secondly, the framing of immigration within the discourse on security issues is to be tac...

Los recientes avances de los países occidentales en cooperación, información y tecnología para la gestión de la inmigración irregular son analizados a la luz de los problemas de seguridad manifestados por los atentados de islamistas yihadistas en Occidente.

Percepciones de la opinión pública española sobre la amenaza del actual terrorismo internacional, las visiones en torno a las causas de dicho fenómeno y las expectativas de que en España ocurran nuevos atentados yihadistas.

(El presente estudio se centra en los riesgos relacionados con el carácter irregular de la inmigración y su implicación en actividades delictivas. Los retos en términos de seguridad/estabilidad son sólo apuntados. Para un análisis pormenorizado de estos riesgos "Estado, movimientos migratorios transfronterizos y seguridad" en Carlos Cueto Nogueras...

Este trabajo analiza la evolución reciente de los requisitos idiomáticos en las políticas de inmigración de los países receptores. Se centra en ver si existe convergencia, con las particularidades propias de cada país, en tres posibles tendencias. En primer lugar, la difusión de las fórmulas “tradicionales” que incorporaban requisitos idiomáticos a...