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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.

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Policy Briefs

Supporting Self-Sufficiency: Considerations for Refugees’ Transition out of Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways Programs

As more countries launch refugee sponsorship and complementary pathways programs, planning for and supporting refugees’ transition out of these programs is essential. While often receiving less attention than other elements of program design, a clear transition plan can promote refugees’ self-sufficiency, social cohesion, and overall program sustainability. This MPI Europe issue brief explores common transition challenges as well as promising practices.

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Commentaries

As Europe and the United States Face Similar Migration Challenges, Spain Can Act as a Bridge

Spain and the United States both receive their greatest number of immigrants from Latin America, and have worked collaboratively together on displacement crises and other migration issues. As shared immigration challenges dominate debate on both sides of the Atlantic, Spain can serve as a vital bridge in the policy conversation, this commentary notes.

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Reports

Coordination Breakdown: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in Europe

The story of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe is chiefly one of challenges to solidarity and coordination. Cross-border movement—even within Europe’s Schengen Area—ground to a halt, and countries took varied approaches to using travel measures in an attempt to slow the virus’s spread. This report explores the pandemic’s impacts on mobility to and within Europe, its challenges to European solidarity, and lessons for future public-health crises.

Recent Activity

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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
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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
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Policy Briefs
December 2003
Rediscovering Resettlement
By  Gregor Noll and Joanne van Selm
Articles
December 1, 2003
Austria Adopts More Restrictive Asylum Law
By Veysel Oezcan

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Recent Activity

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.
Articles
December 1, 2003

Austria Adopts More Restrictive Asylum Law

A new law passed by Austria could make it more difficult to seek asylum in Austria, according to Veysel Oezcan of Humboldt University Berlin.

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