Historically, football experts' predictions were the only method of predicting the outcomes of championships. Former players, coaches, and nearly all fans have tried their hand at it. And most of these predictions were wrong, since subjective desires and prevailing public opinions always played...

Since the beginning of 2016, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study has been conducting a monthly survey of German attitudes, expectations, and fears concerning migration. The third wave of the survey,-the Barometer of Public Opinion on Refugees in Germany (Stimmungsbarometer zu Geflüchteten in...

We analyze gender differences in immigrants’ ethnic boundary making using the example of name giving. We draw on the well-established finding that immigrants are more likely to choose a name that is common in the host country (strategy of boundary crossing) for female than for male...

European law requires member states of the European Union (EU) to accept refugees. It also allows them to return refugees to their countries of origin if the reason for asylum no longer exists. Both the reception and return of refugees has become a widely debated and controversial issue in many...

Prologue -- Changing contexts : the growing demand for transnational human capital and the middle and upper class quest for distinction -- Social background makes all the difference : types of capital, class position and chances for acquiring transnational human capital -- Strategic investments...

In a recently published article 'Why not Turkey? Attitudes towards Turkish Membership in the EU among Citizens in 27 European Countries', Journal of Common Market Studies 2011, Jürgen Gerhards and Silke Hans described and explained the attitudes of citizens in the 27 member states of the EU...