The integration of migrants and refugees : an EUI forum on migration, citizenship and demography

This book discusses the challenges that the contemporary refugee and migration crisis, which culminated with the arrival of more than 1 million asylum seekers in 2015, poses to traditional approaches to immigrant integration employed by the European countries affected. These challenges arise from a host of factors particular to the ongoing patterns of immigration: the unprecedented number of migrants and refugees that have recently entered Europe; the mostly unregulated and uncontrolled nature of this new immigration; the burden that this puts on European countries that had previously had very little experience with immigration and integration but also the opportunities it provides in terms of addressing the key social and economic challenges that Europe will be facing in the next 30 years; the desire of immigrants and refugees to settle in specific countries (particularly Germany and Sweden); and the security concerns that have arisen in the aftermath of terrorist attacks. The contributions, both individually and in their entirety, seek to explore the medium and long-term impacts of these and other challenges on the debate and to measure the success of immigrant integration. The book is divided into four sections, addressing the impact of this new wave of immigration on: (I) access to citizenship and legal statuses, (II) educational integration, (III) labour market integration, and (IV) cultural integration.