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Welcome Home? Challenges and Chances of Return MigrationJanuary 18, 2013
Parochial and Cosmopolitan Britain: Examining the Social Divide in Reactions to ImmigrationJune 13, 2012
U.S. Immigration: Economic Effects and Policy ImplicationsJanuary 25, 2012
Berg, Karakas Join GMF as FellowsSeptember 17, 2012
GMF Migration Forum Launches New Website, Convenes in TorontoAugust 08, 2012
Survey: U.S., European Immigration Views Stable Despite Economic Crisis and Arab SpringDecember 15, 2011
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Labor Issues Facing Indian Migrants will Prevent Economic GrowthOctober 18, 2012 /
Immigration & Integration
Welcome Home? Challenges and Chances of Return MigrationJanuary 18, 2013
This paper analyzes return migration from a variety of perspectives.
Parochial and Cosmopolitan Britain: Examining the Social Divide in Reactions to ImmigrationJune 13, 2012This paper looks at British attitudes toward immigration based on polling data from 2008-2011.
U.S. Immigration: Economic Effects and Policy ImplicationsJanuary 25, 2012This policy brief argues for a change in the numbers of employment-based visas offered by the United States.
Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2011December 15, 2011
The results of the 2011 Transatlantic Trends: Immigration survey capture U.S. and European public opinion on a range of immigration and integration issues....
New Approaches to Muslim Engagement: A View from GermanyFebruary 28, 2011
This policy brief outlines sentiments about Muslim immigration in Germany.
Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010February 04, 2011
Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010 is a public opinion survey of eight countries in North America and Europe that addresses multiple aspects of the immigration and integration debate, including the effect of the economic crisis on attitudes toward immigration, immigrants’ labor market impacts and effects on wages, and how governments are managing immigration, among others.
Selecting for Integration? What Role for a Point System?December 15, 2010
As improved communications and transportation erode the walls that once defined national labor markets, countries around the world are competing not just to attract needed workers, but also choose migrants likely to integrate successfully.
Climate Change and Migration: Report of the Transatlantic Study TeamSeptember 29, 2010
Environmental change – from natural disasters to shifts in climate patterns which may bring glacial melt, sea level rise and desertification – is one of a larger set of factors that affect human migration and displacement worldwide.All or Nothing?July 14, 2010
In the field of immigration policy, there are no easy answers and no scientific study that can tell you how to perfectly manage the flow of immigrants. Comparative studies between countries with similar immigration experiences are often the best approach in such contexts.
GMF releases set of background papers on Climate Change and MigrationJune 21, 2010GMF has released eight background papers that investigate climate-induced migration. Environmental deterioration, including natural disasters, rising sea level, and drought problems in agricultural production, could cause millions of people to leave their homes in the coming decades. These background papers are a product of GMF's Transatlantic Study Team on Climate-induced Migration (led by Dr. Susan E. Martin, Georgetown University, and Dr. Koko Warner, UN University. The Study Team consists of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners from the migration and environmental communities. Further activities of the Study Team include high-level policy convening, study team working meetings with external experts, site visits to affected areas, and policy briefings.
Irregular Migration at Two Borders: The Turkish-EU and Mexican-U.S. CasesJune 06, 2010
This policy paper has three aims. First, it demonstrates that the Mexico-U.S. and Turkey-EU borders can be analyzed and compared via two interrelated aspects of the recent politicization of the international migration systems: securitization and economization. Second, it shows that there is a lot of variance in perceptions of irregular migration. And third, it provides an overview of the research problems related to the issue of irregular migration.
Back to Square One in Cyprus?May 04, 2010
Last month, voters in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) elected a nationalist president over their current, left-of-center president who was committed to resolving the Cyprus conflict—an outcome that reflects the lack of enthusiasm among voters for the ongoing negotiation process.
What Comes after Multiculturalism?June 03, 2009Even as the financial crisis unfolds and frustrations toward American policies continue to develop, Europe would do well to consider the approach to secularism, immigration, and citizenship that the United States has taken.Guest Worker Programs and Circular Migration: What Works?June 01, 2009
Somewhat surprisingly, the new millennium has seen the reappearance of temporary labor migration programs in political discourse within both Europe and the United States. This policy paper aims at evaluating these concepts for temporary labor migration programs.
Religion, Migration, and ConfusionMarch 06, 2009
There are 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States; some say the number is closer to 15 million. Periodically, academic and political debates grow testy and polarizing as they did in 2006. But even though the battle over comprehensive immigration reform in the United States (which included legal status and a path to citizenship for these millions) was fought tooth and nail, very few opponents of the reform proposal argued on grounds of cultural resentment.
Models for Immigration Management SchemesDecember 01, 2008
Over the past few decades, international migration has not only increased but is also flowing to and from an ever-larger number of countries. As the economically motivated migration increases, countries are developing a variety of strategies to deal with this challenge.
Bellagio Dialogue on MigrationAugust 01, 2007
The German Marshall Fund of the United States, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, convened the Bellagio Dialogue on Migration, a four-week program of workshops, cultural events, and keynote addresses to examine and advance thinking on the challenges that international migration poses to Europe, the United States, and migrant countries of origin.
The non-national Nation. Horace Kallen and Cultural PluralismJanuary 04, 2005The United States serves as counter-example to the European version of collective self-perception. In America, the accentuation of belonging to an ethnic minority does not endanger social structures but is part of a successful assimilation process. This specific and distinct form of ethnicity reflects, among other things, the American immigration history and is not associated with any potentially intolerant project of political hegemony. In America ethnicity functions as secular private religion, it is practiced as individual folklore in appreciation of the multipolar setup of the American society and its indefeasible tolerance imperatives. Horace Kallen was the most important interpreter of these tectonic shifts within U.S. society during the 1920's. His essays on Culture and Democracy in the United States can be read as an intellectual cartography of the American demythologization of ethnicity - a process that never took place in Europe.