“Our responses, individual and collective responses to migration, are not only shaped by facts, but particularly by our interpretations on these facts”. The BRIDGES project concluded three years of research on migration narratives with a Final Conference held in Brussels, which focused on the impact of migration narratives in a context of increasing polarisation and politicisation.

This video looks back at the purpose of the BRIDGES project and how it explored, over three years, how migration narratives are created, how they circulate between different spheres, how they are changed and how alternative migration narratives may come up.

In view of the European elections that will take place in June 2024, the video also highlights the relevance of the BRIDGES project in the current context and issues four recommendations directed towards EU policymakers in order to either prevent or counter polarising migration narratives to encourage a more balanced and evidence-based debate on migration.