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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 woman looks out over tents being used by migrants and asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesvos
Articles

Greece Struggles to Balance Competing Migration Demands

When he was elected prime minister in 2019, Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised what he called “strict but fair” reforms to secure Greece's borders and speed up transfers of asylum seekers crowding Aegean islands. Yet domestic and geopolitical tensions continued to roil the islands, later joined by a global pandemic, culminating in a fire that destroyed most of Lesvos's Moria refugee camp. This article examines Greece's efforts to strike a delicate balance on migration in a complex era.

Castle Square in Warsaw, Poland
Reports

Driving Migrant Inclusion through Social Innovation: Lessons for Cities in a Pandemic

Since COVID-19 hit cities across Europe, many have struggled with how to sustain support for migrant inclusion in a time of social-distancing orders and likely budget cuts. This report explores how municipalities and their partners used social innovation to meet the challenges of the 2015–16 spike in arrivals of asylum seekers and migrants, and how those experiences can help localities weather the pandemic and put communities at the center of recovery efforts.

Recent Activity

Articles
June 1, 2004
Greece: A History of Migration
By Charalambos Kasimis, Chryssa Kassimi
Policy Briefs
May 2004
The Enlargement of an 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice': Managing Migration in a European Union of 25 Members
By  Joanne van Selm
Articles
May 1, 2004
EU Enlargement and the Limits of Freedom
By Joanne van Selm, Eleni Tsolakis
Articles
April 1, 2004
EU Sees Sharp Drop in Asylum Applications
By Veysel Oezcan
Reports
March 2004
The EU as a Global Player in the Refugee Protection Regime
By  Joanne van Selm
Articles
February 1, 2004
Fewer Ethnic Germans Immigrating to Ancestral Homeland
By Veysel Oezcan
Articles
February 1, 2004
Belgium's Undocumented Hold Lessons for EU
By Marco Martiniello, Andrea Rea
Policy Briefs
December 2003
Rediscovering Resettlement
By  Gregor Noll and Joanne van Selm

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Recent Activity

Articles
June 1, 2004

The Changing Mosaic of Mediterranean Migrations

Martin Baldwin-Edwards of Panteion University examines new trends in the long-established phenomenon of migration within the Mediterranean basin.

Articles
May 1, 2004

EU Enlargement and the Limits of Freedom

Joanne van Selm and Eleni Tsokalis of MPI look at the challenges ahead as 10 new states join the European Union.
Policy Briefs
May 2004

The Enlargement of an 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice': Managing Migration in a European Union of 25 Members

This policy brief explores two key policy issues at the center of the May 2004 enlargement of the European Union: the potential for migration from the new Member States to the existing ones; and the need to develop a coherent immigration, asylum, and border control policy for the European Union.

 

Articles
April 1, 2004

EU Sees Sharp Drop in Asylum Applications

Countries in the European Union received fewer asylum applications in 2003, according to Veysel Oezcan of the Social Science Research Center Berlin.
Reports
March 2004

The EU as a Global Player in the Refugee Protection Regime

Through a broad overview of key policy and legislation dating back to the early 1990s, this paper finds that despite persistent efforts to coordinate an EU level approach to asylum and refugee protection, the process has been severely stifled by the lack of a philosophical consensus between Member States as to what constitutes refugee protection in Europe and globally.

 

Articles
February 1, 2004

Belgium's Undocumented Hold Lessons for EU

Research by Marco Martiniello of the University of Liege and Andrea Rea of the Free University of Brussels casts light on how and why unauthorized immigrants arrive and stay in Belgium.
Articles
February 1, 2004

Fewer Ethnic Germans Immigrating to Ancestral Homeland

The number of ethnic Germans born abroad who immigrated to their ancestral homeland in 2003 was much lower than the previous year, reports Veysel Oezcan of Humboldt University Berlin.
Articles
December 1, 2003

Moldova Seeks Stability Amid Mass Emigration

Moldova is a small country facing huge emigration spurred mainly by economic hardships, according to Michael Jandl.

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