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The Pitfalls of a European Migration Policy
Key messages: A European migration policy is hampered by structural and institutional limits on cooperation between the Member States and between different policy fields at the European level. The divisive issues of today’s migration debate are fears of alleged “welfare shopping”, mixed flows of migration and the secondary movement of migrants, which are all situated in grey areas between the current institutional baskets.
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Books and Reports: International Migration Outlook 2013
Migration has started to pick up again, driven largely by people moving within the European Union, after three years of continuous decline during the crisis. But the employment prospects for immigrants have worsened, with around one in two unemployed immigrants in Europe still looking for work after more than 12 months, according to the new OECD report "International Migration Outlook 2013".
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Why Europe Won't Become Extinct
Many believe that migration has had a limited impact on population trends in Europe so far. But Chris Wilson and his co-authors demonstrate that, for many countries, migration is already a key factor that has prevented population decline in low fertility countries.   The debate over dropping fertility and role of immigration
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Lampedusa Does Not Tell the Full Story
Every time a new boat with African refugees reaches the shores of Lampedusa or the Canary Islands, there is a new wave of media debate about African migration to Europe. Several countries even created new policy measures to respond to the masses of new migrants that they expect. However, the real numbers of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries are much lower than the public discourse sometimes suggests, as research from David Lessault and Cris Beauchemin shows.
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Lampedusa Does Not Tell the Full Story
Chaque fois qu’un bateau de réfugiés africains atteint les côtes de Lampedusa ou les Îles Canaries, ceci crée une nouvelle vague de débats médiatiques sur la question de la migration africaine vers l’Europe. Plusieurs pays ont même développé de nouvelles mesures politiques pour répondre à l’arrivée massive de nouveaux migrants à laquelle ils s’attendent à devoir faire face. Toutefois, le nombre réel d'immigrés provenant des pays d’Afrique subsaharienne est bien inférieur à ce que le discours public laisse parfois entendre, comme le montre le travail de David Lessault et Cris Beauchemin.
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Lampedusa Does Not Tell the Full Story
Jedes Mal wenn ein neues Boot mit afrikanischen Flüchtlingen Lampedusas Strände oder die der Kanarischen Inseln erreicht, folgt auch eine neue Welle der medialen Debatte über die afrikanische Migration nach Europa. Verschiedene Staaten schufen sogar neue politische Instrumente, um auf die Massen neuer Migranten zu reagieren, die sie erwarten.
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Lampedusa Does Not Tell the Full Story
Cada vez que un nuevo barco con refugiados africanos llega a las costas de Lampedusa o de las Islas Canarias se produce una nueva ola de debates en los medios de comunicación sobre la migración de África hacia Europa. Muchos países han incluso creado nuevas medidas políticas para responder a la masa de migrantes que esperan ver llegar. Pero, tal y como muestra la investigación llevada a cabo por David Lessault y Cris Beauchemin, los números reales de los migrantes desde África subsahariana son mucho menores de lo que el debate público a veces sugiere.
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