About 18% of all work permits issued between 2008-17 concerned seasonal workers and only 3.6% were issued to researchers and highly skilled migrants. Identify obstacles to legal migration and suggest ways to improve migration management. The EU hosts almost 90% of all immigrants from Algeria and Morocco and almost 80% from Tunisia. From 2008 to 2017, EU Member States issued over 2.2 million first residence permits to South Med country nationals. 1 2 Residence permits issued to South Med nationals for work purposes represented less than one fifth of all delivered permits by EU Member States. The main legal migration channel for South Med nationals to the EU is through family reunification. 12 Education represents another important legal entry channel to the EU. 3 Morocco 1,358,129 1,479,801 1,672,079 1990: 1995: 2000: 2,076,022 2,432,844 2,489,697 2005: 2010: 2015: 2,532,8962017: Algeria 1990: 1995: 2000: 2005: 2010: 2015: 2017: Tunisia 391,832 401,867 412,087 1990: 1995: 2000: 505,600 528,402 468,990 2005: 2010: 2015: 578,6102017: Lebanon 139,381 145,610 151,140 1990: 1995: 2000: 167,577 185,771 194,151 2005: 2010: 2015: 210,5292017: Jordan 27,913 26,361 25,296 1990: 1995: 2000: 28,207 31,731 32,513 2005: 2010: 2015: 35,6572017: State of Palestine 2,555 2,956 3,305 1990: 1995: 2000: 5,043 7,053 9,184 2005: 2010: 2015: 9,8802017: Egypt 127,945 146,884 167,383 1990: 1995: 2000: 213,280 260,931 260,931 2005: 2010: 2015: 289,2232017: 835,195 875,119 920,513 1,548,347 1,470,702 1,599,398 1,603,297 Education Reasons Family Reasons Other Remunerated Activities Reasons Source: WGI (2017) EMNES Policygraphic 9 EMNES Policygraphics are graphic visual representations of policy analysis and conclusions produced from EMNES research, papers or studies on topical issues in Euro-Mediterranean economic policy. The views expressed are attributable only to the authors in a personal capacity and not to any institution with which they are associated. A