Transatlantic Council on Migration
The Transatlantic Council on Migration is a unique, deliberative body, launched in 2008, that supports pragmatic, evidence-based migration and integration policymaking across Europe and North America through essential analysis, high-level convenings, and cutting-edge policy advice to senior leaders.
The Council aims to help inform the transatlantic agenda and promote better-informed policymaking by proactively identifying critical policy issues, analyzing them in light of the best research, and bringing them to public attention. At the same time, it aims to serve as a resource for governments as they grapple with the challenges and opportunities associated with international migration. The Council’s goal is to support pragmatic and evidence-based policymaking that can adapt to evolving needs and changing political realities. Learn more about the Council here.
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Trade-Offs in Immigration Enforcement
Return-only enforcement globally is costly and incomplete, making regularization an indispensable complement to deportation in any credible migration enforcement regime.
Building New Skills: Immigration and Workforce Development in Canada
Despite a wide array of workforce services, immigrant workers in Canada remain under-represented in training and face a system too supply-driven and insufficiently employer-led.
The Immigrant Workforce in Germany: Formal and Informal Barriers to Addressing Skills Deficits
Informal barriers prevent Germany's immigrants from accessing job training at the same rates as native workers, despite identical formal rights.
Maximizing Human Capital in a Rapidly Evolving Economic Landscape (Transatlantic Council Statement)
Immigrants should have access to job-relevant training and be able to put their skills to use, as policymakers seek to close skills gaps among immigrants and underserved workers.
Immigrant Workers and the Workforce Development System in the United Kingdom
England's employer-led skills system helps some immigrants incidentally, but complexity and austerity-driven cuts leave those most in need least likely to participate.
Maximizing Potential: How Countries Can Address Skills Deficits within the Immigrant Workforce
More than ever, human capital is seen as the ultimate resource. As a result, policymakers face the challenge of ensuring that workers have the skills and abilities to find productive employment and contribute to growth, innovation, and competitiveness in constantly evolving labor markets. Migrants’ skills are often seen as an untapped resource that, with the right formula of policies, can bolster competitiveness and fuel productivity.
Exceptional in Europe? Spain's Experience with Immigration and Integration
Spain's pro-immigrant exceptionalism survived the economic crisis intact, but rising unemployment and a conservative government shift may finally erode it.
Identity and (Muslim) Integration in Germany
Germany's anti-Muslim sentiment—among the strongest in Western Europe—persists despite growing Muslim integration, exposing a gap that top-down policy alone cannot close.
The Netherlands: From National Identity to Plural Identifications
Dutch “culturalized citizenship” policy burdens minorities with conformity demands that cannot resolve the cultural insecurity driving anti-immigration politics.
Immigration and National Identity in Norway
Norway's success has paradoxically fueled resentment toward immigrants, deepening a societal rift between openness to diversity and fears of cultural pluralism.
