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Europe

Europe

European Union

Europe faces an interesting set of immigration challenges and opportunities: Demographic pressures as many European societies age, a lively and at times tense policy and political debate over questions of identity and immigrant integration, and a unique policy environment that has knit many European countries together with regards to free movement, the management of outer borders, asylum, and other immigration-related topics. MPI has long conducted research and analysis of European policy on topics ranging from labor mobility and border security to immigrant integration, citizenship, and foreign qualifications recognition, which can be found below.

A foundation in Poland supports a Ukrainian woman with her small business
Reports

Displaced Ukrainians in European Labor Markets: Leveraging Innovations for More Inclusive Integration

With millions of Ukrainians seeking safety in Europe, receiving countries are facing considerable pressure and also potential opportunities to benefit from this highly qualified population’s skills. This report explores displaced Ukrainians’ early employment outcomes, common challenges to finding jobs commensurate to their skills, and opportunities to more fully support their labor market integration.

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Policy Briefs

Promoting Evidence-Informed Immigrant Integration Policymaking

While many policy areas have seen a revolution in how information is gathered, shared, and used to inform new policies and improve existing ones, immigrant integration has not kept pace. This policy brief explores why integration policy in Europe has not yet seen the development of a robust evidence culture and offers recommendations for creating an environment in which evidence-informed policymaking can flourish.

Recent Activity

Articles
May 1, 2005
The Roma of Eastern Europe: Still Searching for Inclusion
By Arno Tanner
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Articles
May 1, 2005
Norway: Migrant Quality, Not Quantity
By Betsy Cooper
Articles
February 1, 2005
Switzerland Faces Common European Challenges
By Denise Efionayi, Josef Martin Niederberger, and Philippe Wanner
Articles
January 1, 2005
The Hague Program Reflects New European Realities
By Joanne van Selm
Articles
December 1, 2004
Immigrants and EU Labor Markets
By Louka T. Katseli
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Articles
November 1, 2004
The Challenge of French Diversity
By Kimberly Hamilton, Patrick Simon, Clara Veniard
Articles
August 1, 2004
New German Law Skirts Comprehensive Immigration Reform
By Rainer Münz
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Articles
August 1, 2004
Albania: Looking Beyond Borders
By Kosta Barjaba

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Recent Activity

Articles
May 1, 2005

Norway: Migrant Quality, Not Quantity

Since the 1970s, Norway has become home to thousands of non-European immigrants and refugees. MPI's Betsy Cooper takes a detailed look at how the country seeks to control migration while keeping the door open to labor from an expanding Europe.
Articles
May 1, 2005

The Roma of Eastern Europe: Still Searching for Inclusion

Over one million Roma, Europe’s largest ethnic minority, became EU citizens in May 2004 when eight former communist states joined the EU. But their second-class status persists, as Arno Tanner of the Finnish Directorate of Immigration explains.

Articles
February 1, 2005

Switzerland Faces Common European Challenges

Denise Efionayi, Josef Martin Niederberger and Philippe Wanner of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies explain how Switzerland, with one of the highest percentages of foreigners in Europe, is responding to a variety of migration challenges.

Articles
January 1, 2005

The Hague Program Reflects New European Realities

MPI's Joanne van Selm analyzes the EU's latest effort to guarantee rights, protect refugees, and regulate migration flows and borders.

Articles
December 1, 2004

Immigrants and EU Labor Markets

Louka T. Katseli of the OECD Development Centre explains why effective migration policies in Europe are as much a political as a technical issue.

Articles
November 1, 2004

The Challenge of French Diversity

Since the mid-19th century, French immigration policy has had two aims: to meet the needs of the labor market by introducing migrant workers, and to compensate French demographic deficits by favoring the permanent installation of foreign families, while ensuring their integration. This country profile examines France's approach to migration.

Articles
August 1, 2004

Albania: Looking Beyond Borders

Albania is traveling a bumpy road from totalitarianism to democracy, with sharp twists and turns in migration flows along the way, according to Kosta Barjaba.

Articles
August 1, 2004

New German Law Skirts Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Rainer Münz of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics analyzes Germany's long-awaited immigration law.

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