This paper discusses the size of Europe's migrant population, its demographic structure, and the socio-economic position of migrants. The European Labour Force Survey (LFS) as well as Eurostat, OECD and UN migration data are used as the main databases. In most sections of the paper the...

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...

This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a...

"This book offers a detailed description of the lives of immigrant women across the globe, featuring the voices of women as they describe their experiences living in the diaspora either with their families or alone"--

Australia has a small population of Muslim migrants as compared to Western Europe or North America. Over the last few years, Muslims have become a fifth column or a pariah, therefore migration debates largely revolve around their experiences as homogenous, and remain focused on issues of...