The recent rise of xenophobic attacks against refugees in Germany has sparked both political and scholarly debates on the drivers, dynamics, and consequences of right-wing violence.

The new European Commission will inherit an impasse in efforts to reform the European asylum system as well as concerns about practices in the management of the EU’s external border that contradict humanitarian standards and may even be illegal.

The paper examines the effect of the import of cultural goods as defined by UNESCO (2009): cultural heritage, performance, visual arts, books, audio-visual material and design on emigration decisions.

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

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

The European Commission is currently finalizing its proposed New Pact on Migration and Asylum to re-start the debate on how to reform the common European asylum system and manage immigration from non-EU countries.

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 integrating immigrants? To what extent can observable local economic and demographic characteristics, or the concentration...