Books in the IMISCOE Research series

Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from - and s

Latest IMISCOE publication analyses citizenship policies in the ten new EU Member States

The first title in an international new series focusing on migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe post 1945

This timely book presents the results of the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey that examines the experiences of residents of Stockholm who are descended from Turkish migrants

A study on how national policies of integration exert little influence over the reception practices of secondary schools in Rotterdam and Barcelona.

This book surveys the many different ways in which irregular migrants settle and make a living in Belgium and the Netherlands. Offering an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research's focus on survival strategies, overreliance on comparisons of migrant communities, and overemphasis on structural explanations, Masja van Meeteren instead takes the aspirations of irregular migrants as her starting point, which opens up fascinating new questions about their lives and roles in their new home nations.

This book explores the Dutch post-colonial migrant experience within the context of a wider European debate spanning sixty years and three generations

This volume presents new research on post-accession migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the short period since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007.

A selection of the most important text on immigration by Michael Bommes.

An essential contribution to understanding the dynamics of contemporary immigrant inflows and integration in Europe

A remarkable study on the theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation,and on perspective that assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere may be self-subverting.

Detailed study of each country's nationality laws, their historical background and current provisions in 15 member states of the EU, executed by the renowned IMISCOE network

Using data from the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey, this timely study focuses on the second generation of immigrants from Turkey and former Yugoslavia in Switzerland.

A wide and scientific overview on migration potential from the NEMA region to the EU.

All people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. This volume looks at how they are distinguished in France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark made through history between migrants and how these were justified in policies and public debates. The chapters form a triptych, add

What are the special problems involved in surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? How can we ensure adequate representation of these growing groups in general population surveys? This book is the first to address these challenges in a systematic way. Experiences from eight Western countries, involving more than a dozen surveys, are u

This academic and personal journey into Albania's post-communist society examines the links between internal and international migration in one of Europe's poorest countries. The author follows rural migrants to urban destinations both within Albania and in neighbouring Greece. Their lives and experiences are captured in150 interviews, alongside gr

Report on the German results of the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe (TIES) survey.

The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union. How did newly formed states determine who would become their citizens? How do countries relate to their large emigrant communiti