Migration is a hotly debated topic on both sides of the Atlantic and impacts elections, policymaking and public opinion on the local, national and European level. How European societies and governance structures will address migration will impact economic growth, national security, demographic change, equality, and social cohesion within Europe. GMF’s work addresses a number of pressing policy challenges in the European context: how to best address rising refugee and asylum numbers in times when the EU Dublin regulations, the Common European Asylum System and border control systems have come under increasing criticism as not being functional; how to offset shrinking workforces in some European Member states, like Germany, when in the foreseeable future EU migration might not be enough to counter shrinking populations and sound mechanisms and policies are needed with third countries for labor migration; the impact of free movement within the EU on labor markets but also national as well as a European identity discourse and public opinion; and how to achieve or maintain social cohesion in European societies addressing questions of integration, inclusion and diversity.