To increase legal labour migration pathways, including for lower-skilled workers, the Pact proposes greater and more effective cooperation with non-EU countries through so-called “Talent Partnerships”.

Does citizenship facilitate access to employment and higher status jobs? Existing case studies have produced mixed results across mostly single case studies in Europe and North America.

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

This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes representative surveys from Ghana and Kenya to shed light on the quality and distribution of skills in the labor markets of these countries.

Trade preferences provide a potential policy tool for supporting refugee employment in countries of first asylum.

With the “Points-based Model Project for Foreign Skilled Workers” (PuMa) in Baden-Württemberg, a points-based immigration system has been tested for the first time in Germany.

The study reviews existing research on the impact of refugees on residents’ livelihoods in host communities in developing countries.

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

Proper management of migration across the Mediterranean Sea requires close cooperation between the EU and African countries.

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