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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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Articles
November 1, 2003
Turkey: A Transformation from Emigration to Immigration
By Kemal Kirisci
Articles
November 1, 2003
Germany's High Court Allows Teacher to Wear Muslim Headscarf
By Veysel Oezcan
Articles
November 1, 2003
Burden-sharing in the New Age of Immigration
By Christina Boswell
Reports
October 2003
The Feasibility of Setting Up Resettlement Schemes in EU Member States or at EU Level
By  Joanne van Selm, Erin Patrick, Tamara Woroby and Monica Matts
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

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Recent Activity

Articles
November 1, 2003

Turkey: A Transformation from Emigration to Immigration

Long a country of emigration, immigration, and asylum, Turkey has also become a country of transit for immigrants, according to Kemal Kirisci of Boagazici University.

Articles
November 1, 2003

Undocumented Immigration Haunts Italy's Ruling Coalition

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to achieve consensus around stricter control of undocumented immigration, according to MPI's Ken Okoth.
Articles
November 1, 2003

Hungary: Transit Country Between East and West

Judit Juhasz of examines the forces that have made Hungary into a sending, transit, and destination country for migration.

Articles
October 1, 2003

Swiss Court Halts Local Plebiscites on Naturalization

Veysel Oezcan of Humboldt University Berlin reports on a Swiss ruling that bars communities from holding plebiscites to approve or reject naturalization applications.
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.

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