Belgium

2349000

Immigrant Population

20%

Immigrant Share of Total Population

522000

Emigrant Population

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Foreign Fighters: Will Revoking Citizenship Mitigate the Threat?

Citizenship revocation against foreign fighters has unclear security benefits and risks two-tier citizenship, Muslim community stigma, and statelessness.

Pushing Migration to the Forefront, Populists Make New Strides

Far-right populists claimed Brazil's presidency in 2018, collapsed Belgium's government, and pushed harder immigration policies across Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, and Sweden.

Responding to the ECEC Needs of Children of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe and North America

Children of refugees face significant unmet early childhood education needs, and most of the nine European and North American countries studied lack coherent strategies to address them.

Asylum Reception in the European Union: A flexible model for the future?

The pressure brought by the influx of migrants and refugees to Europe has drawn attention to the need for systems to receive and house new arrivals that can adapt to unpredictable numbers, remain cost-efficient, and meet national and EU standards. Experts discuss how to devise a more responsive asylum reception system that upholds common standards at the national and EU level.

Mentoring Practices in Europe and North America: Strategies for improving immigrants' employment outcomes

Mentoring improves migrants' labour market outcomes, but fragmented funding and weak multistakeholder collaboration limit its scale.

Belgium: A Country of Permanent Immigration

Belgium's migration, asylum, and integration policies have historically been reactive and piecemeal, but policymakers have begun developing more comprehensive frameworks.

Immigration and Belgium's Far-Right Parties

Belgium’s far right linked immigration politics to Flemish nationalism, even as antiracism laws and civic opposition pushed back.

Challenges of Immigrant Integration: Muslims in Europe

The July 7 London bombings and weeks of rioting in France after two North African teens died in a Paris suburb made Muslim integration an urgent issue in Europe in 2005.

Schengen and the Free Movement of People Across Europe

Signed in 1985, the Schengen Agreement eliminated internal EU borders, enabled common visa policy, and drove security cooperation.

Belgium's Undocumented Hold Lessons for EU

Interviews with 130 undocumented migrants in Belgium showed motivations are complex, challenging EU migration policy assumptions.