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spacer EUROPEAN MIGRATION OVERVIEW: Europe faces an interesting set of immigration challenges and opportunities: Demographic pressures as many European societies age, a lively policy and political debate over questions of identity and immigrant integration, and a unique policy environment that has knit 27 European countries together with regards to the management of outer borders and other immigration-related topics. MPI, which has long conducted research and analysis of European policy on topics ranging from labor migration and border security to immigrant integration and citizenship, expanded its presence in Europe in 2011 with the creation of MPI Europe, a research institute based in Brussels that draws upon its own staff and leverages MPI’s deep relationships with European Union and national policymakers, NGOs, academics, foundations, and other opinion leaders.

Additionally, the Migration Policy Institute conducts significant work on Europe through its Transatlantic Council on Migration, a unique deliberative body that examines vital policy issues and informs migration policymaking processes across the Atlantic; and through research projects and partnerships funded through grants from the European Union and others. In one such project in partnership with the European University Institute, MPI conducted the US-EU Immigration Systems project, which identified ways European and US immigration systems can be substantially improved.

LATEST EUROPEAN MIGRATION RESEARCH

Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migration
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Large-scale immigration has led to unprecedented levels of diversity and demographic change, transforming communities across the Atlantic in fundamental ways and challenging closely held notions of national identity, particularly amid heightened economic insecurity. The Transatlantic Council on Migration convened to consider these issues of national identity, social cohesion, and the backlash against multiculturalism; this Council Statement examines the roots of society’s anxiety over immigration and outlines ten steps for fostering greater cohesiveness.

Multiculturalism: Success, Failure, and the Future
By Will Kymlicka
Despite substantial evidence to the contrary, a chorus of political leaders in Europe has declared multiculturalism policies a failure – in effect mischaracterizing the multiculturalism experiment, its future prospects, and its progress over the past three decades. This report challenges the recent rhetoric and addresses the advancement of policy areas for countries, examining factors that impede or facilitate successful the implementation of multiculturalism.

The Role of the State in Cultural Integration: Trends, Challenges, and Ways Ahead
By Christian Joppke
For more than a decade, states have experimented with a range of civic integration policies that require immigrants to learn the official language of their host country and acknowledge its basic norms and values — or risk losing social benefits and sometimes even residence permits. The challenge for liberal states is to strike the right balance between policies that are aggressive enough to further social cohesion, yet restrained enough to respect the moral autonomy of immigrants. This is especially difficult when it comes to regulating sensitive identity issues, particularly with respect to religion.

The Centrality of Employment in Immigrant Integration in Europe
By Randall Hansen
The two sides of the debate on immigration and integration in Europe share an underlying assumption that the problem is cultural, while disagreeing on whether it is the result of too much or too little respect for cultural differences. Both get the issue wrong, this report contends, calling attention to the inability of policies to ensure immigrants acquire and retain work. Employment, not culture, must be the basis for immigration policy in Europe, the author suggests.

RECENT EUROPEAN MIGRATION RESEARCH (click to expand list of publications)

• MIGRATION MANAGEMENT/BORDER SECURITY

  • Restoring Trust in the Management of Migration and Borders
  • Shared Challenges and Opportunities for EU and US Immigration Policymakers
  • The Role of Civil Society in EU Migration Policy: Perspectives on the European Union’s Engagement in its Neighborhood
  • Emerging Transatlantic Security Dilemmas in Border Management
  • A New Architecture for Border Management
  • Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on International Migration
  • Transatlantic Cooperation on Travelers’ Data Processing: From Sorting Countries to Sorting Individuals

For a full library list of publications on Migration Management/Border Security, click here
For a full library of all European publications, click here

• LABOR MARKETS AND COMPETITIVENESS

  • Scientists, Managers, and Tourists: The Changing Shape of European Migration to the United States
  • Rethinking Points Systems and Employer-Selected Immigration
  • Migration and Immigrants Two Years after the Financial Collapse: Where Do We Stand?
  • Immigration in the United Kingdom: The Recession and Beyond
  • Eight Policies to Boost the Economic Contribution of Employment-Based Immigration

For a full library list of publications on Labor Markets and Competitiveness, click here
For a full library of all European publications, click here

• IRREGULAR MIGRATION

  • Regularizations in the European Union: The Contentious Policy Tool
  • Irregular Migration in Europe
  • Immigrant Legalization in the United States and European Union: Policy Goals and Program Designs
  • Pay-to-Go Schemes and Other Noncoercive Return Programs: Is Scale Possible?

For a full library list of publications on Irregular Migration, click here
For a full library of all European publications, click here

• IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION

  • Improving Immigrants’ Employment Prospects through Work-Focused Language Instruction
  • Immigrant Integration in a Time of Austerity

For a full library list of publications on Immigrant Integration, click here
For a full library of all European publications, click here

MOST POPULAR EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS

  • Migration and Immigrants Two Years after the Financial Collapse
  • Immigrant Legalization in the United States and European Union: Policy Goals and Program Design
  • The Role of Civil Society in EU Migration Policy: Perspectives on the European Union’s Engagement in its Neighborhood
  • Immigrant Integration in Europe in a Time of Austerity
  • Scientists, Managers, and Tourists: The Changing Shape of European Mobility to the United States
  • Migration and Development Policy: What Have We Learned?
  • Immigration in the United Kingdom: The recession and beyond

Complete library of MPI European-related research

Watch Our Events

Rethinking European Identity in the Age of Immigration

This MPI Europe panel discussion explores the factors driving societal discontent in Europe and the role played by immigration. Panelists include Cecilia Malmstrm, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, and former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Listen to/download the event audio podcast here.

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The release event for MPI's book, Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience, reviews how the financial and economic crisis of the late 2000s marked a sudden and dramatic interruption in international migration trends, and the effects of the economic turmoil on immigrant workers in major immigrant-receiving countries in Europe as well as the United States.
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EUROPEAN MIGRATION RESEARCH LIBRARY

Complete MPI Library of European migration research, focusing on topics such as migration management, immigrant integration, and asylum and refugee policies.

EUROPEAN COUNTRY RESOURCES

Country profiles and other resources from MPI's online journal, the Migration Information Source. The Source has profiles of 25 countries in Europe.

MPI BOOKSTORE

spacer The MPI Bookstore presents a selection of in-depth, nonpartisan publications. A selection of recent European titles include:

Improving the Governance of International Migration: Currently, there is no formal, coherent, multilateral institutional framework governing the global flow of migrants. While most actors agree that greater international cooperation on migration is needed, there has been no persuasive analysis of what form this would take or of what greater global cooperation would aim to achieve. The purpose of this book, the Transatlantic Council on Migration's fifth volume, is to fill this analytical gap.

Prioritizing Integration: This fourth book of the Transatlantic Council on Migration takes stock of the impact of the global economic crisis on immigrant integration in Europe and the United States. It assesses where immigrants have lost ground, using evidence such as employment rates, levels of funding for educational programs, trends toward protectionism, and public opinion, focusing on the case studies of five countries in particular: the United States, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
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