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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
August 1, 2003
Changes to German Law Help Boost Naturalization Numbers
By Veysel Oezcan
Articles
July 1, 2003
Europe Attracts More Migrants from China
By Frank Laczko
Articles
July 1, 2003
Germany Weighs Biometric Registration Options for Visa Applicants
By Veysel Oezcan
Articles
July 1, 2003
Can UN Migration Recommendations Be Met in Europe?
By Michel Poulain, Nicolas Perrin
Policy Briefs
April 2003
Reconciling Refugee Protection and Security Concerns in Wartime: The Case of Iraq
By  Monette Zard and Erin Patrick
Articles
April 1, 2003
EU States Reach Landmark Agreement on Family Reunification Rules
By Veysel Oezcan
Articles
March 1, 2003
Austria: A Country of Immigration?
By Michael Jandl, Albert Kraler
Articles
March 1, 2003
Gender, Religion, and Secularism Meet in Germany's Headscarf Battle
By Veysel Oezcan

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Recent Activity

Articles
August 1, 2003

French Muslims, Government Grapple With Integration Pains

France's traditions of secularism and Roman Catholicism are being tested as the country tries to integrate a growing Muslim population, according to Patrick Simon of INED.
Articles
July 1, 2003

Can UN Migration Recommendations Be Met in Europe?

Migration is assuming increasing importance in measurements of population change relative to other demographic phenomena such as births and deaths. Migration flows, however, pose particular challenges to the production and measurement of reliable and widely comparable statistics, as this article explores.
Articles
July 1, 2003

Germany Weighs Biometric Registration Options for Visa Applicants

The German government is testing various biometric registration methods for visa applicants.
Articles
July 1, 2003

Europe Attracts More Migrants from China

Frank Laczko of the IOM examines how increasing numbers of Chinese immigrants are entering Europe.
Articles
April 1, 2003

EU States Reach Landmark Agreement on Family Reunification Rules

After three years of thorny negotiations, the European Union's interior ministers have reached a groundbreaking agreement on the right to family reunification.
Policy Briefs
April 2003

Reconciling Refugee Protection and Security Concerns in Wartime: The Case of Iraq

Amidst heightened security concerns in the post-9/11 world, this policy brief examines international responses to the Iraqi refugee situation and explores various tools that can effectively allow states to reconcile security efforts with the continued commitment to international protection.

Articles
March 1, 2003

Gender, Religion, and Secularism Meet in Germany's Headscarf Battle

A German court has restored the job of a Muslim nursery school teacher dismissed from her post for wearing a symbol of her faith, the headscarf.
Articles
March 1, 2003

Austria: A Country of Immigration?

Recent policies — some more restrictive, some more liberal — reflect Austria's continuing ambivalence about immigration.

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