The recent rise of xenophobic attacks against refugees in Germany has sparked both political and scholarly debates on the drivers,...

The new European Commission will inherit an impasse in efforts to reform the European asylum system as well as concerns about...

The paper examines the effect of the import of cultural goods as defined by UNESCO (2009): cultural heritage, performance, visual...

Introduction Most high-income countries make a strict distinction in their immigration poli-cies between refugees and those deemed to...

The integration of refugees and migrants in general into the labour market – and into society at large –stands at the forefront of...

The European Commission is currently finalizing its proposed New Pact on Migration and Asylum to re-start the debate on how to reform...

What impact will recently arrived refugees have on the labour markets of receiving European countries? ...

Irregular migration from Africa across the Mediterranean to the EU has become a central policy issue. ...

Policies have some potential to influence the process of social integration.

This paper aims to understand the drivers of immigrant integration at the local level: why are some areas more successful at...

Political trust matters for citizens’ policy preferences but existing research has not yet considered whether this effect depends on...

This article provides the first-ever analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy, a highly...

The widespread view that the refugee crisis has sparked unprecedented levels of European Union politicisation has rarely been backed...

The EU faces major challenges in asylum and migration policy: reorganize the EU asylum system, secure the external border, curb...

Introduction In 2015, Europe experienced the largest influx of refugees since the Balkan wars in the early 1990s. ...

How can the responsibility for refugees be distributed more fairly—globally and within the EU? And how can we curb irregular migration...

Surprisingly little attention has been given to an integrated understanding of the interaction between ethnicity, gender and parental...

Does citizenship facilitate access to employment and higher status jobs? Existing case studies have produced mixed results across...

This Issue Paper examines nearly 1,500 news articles from four EU member states (Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic)...

Does citizenship facilitate access to employment and higher status jobs? In the paper, the authors analyse the labour market outcomes...