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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.

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Reports
October 2003
The Strategic Use of Resettlement
By  Joanne van Selm
Reports
October 2003
Perceptions of Afghan Refugees
By  Joanne van Selm
Articles
October 1, 2003
The Challenges of Integration for the EU
By Sarah Spencer
Articles
October 1, 2003
French Government Revives Assimilation Policy
By Sylvia Zappi
Articles
October 1, 2003
Belgium's Immigration Policy Brings Renewal and Challenges
By Marco Martiniello, Andrea Rea
Articles
October 1, 2003
Swiss Court Halts Local Plebiscites on Naturalization
By Veysel Oezcan
Articles
September 1, 2003
Resettlement in the Nordic Countries
By Mette Honoré
Articles
August 1, 2003
French Muslims, Government Grapple With Integration Pains
By Patrick Simon

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Recent Activity

Articles
October 1, 2003

Belgium's Immigration Policy Brings Renewal and Challenges

Marco Martiniello and Andrea Rea examine how immigration has made Belgium a multicultural society in perpetual renewal.
Articles
October 1, 2003

French Government Revives Assimilation Policy

Sylvia Zappi outlines a new government action plan for integrating immigrants that reasserts France's previously abandoned assimilationist policy.
Articles
October 1, 2003

The Challenges of Integration for the EU

The EU can use several unique levers to promote integration policy, according to Sarah Spencer of the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Reports
October 2003

Perceptions of Afghan Refugees

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., EU officials issued a symbolic statement that the EU was prepared to receive Afghan refugees displaced from the looming American intervention. Despite internal policy tendencies to reject Afghan claims to protection and domestic security concerns, EU officials seemed to recognize at the time there was very little risk of a massive influx of Afghan refugees.

Reports
October 2003

The Strategic Use of Resettlement

This report seeks to evaluate the extent to which expanding resettlement programs across the European Union can provide a strategic tool to manage a greater number of legal arrivals to EU Member States and whether Member States possess the political will to engage in resettlement.

Reports
October 2003

The Feasibility of Setting Up Resettlement Schemes in EU Member States or at EU Level

This report seeks to understand the circumstances under which EU Member States are likely to engage in resettlement programs.The study promotes the development of a Common European International Protection System (CEIPS) as a means to incorporate resettlement, asylum and assistance in region of origin all under a single integrated agenda.

Articles
September 1, 2003

Resettlement in the Nordic Countries

The efforts of Nordic countries to provide safe harbor to refugees are outlined by Mette Honore, Senior Legal Consultant to the Danish Refugee Council.
Articles
August 1, 2003

Changes to German Law Help Boost Naturalization Numbers

Veysel Oezcan of Humboldt University Berlin reports on how fewer foreign residents of Germany are obtaining citizenship under the provisions of a citizenship law passed in 2000.

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