Integrating
Islam: A New Chapter in “Church-State” Relations
By Jonathan Laurence, Boston College, October 2007
With at least 15 million Muslims now residing in Europe, Islam is Europe’s
second largest religion. A new report provides a roadmap for how European governments
can best engage Muslim communities on issues related to religious practice and
integration. The primary challenges for European governments are to safeguard
religious freedoms and to ensure a voice for Muslim populations, while combating
extremism and adapting European societies to diverse religious communities. Drawing
on examples from throughout the European Union, the report provides a framework
for establishing dialogues that can play a critical role in integrating newcomers
of various faiths, many of whom still have foreign nationality.
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The
children that Europe forgot
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Werner Weidenfeld,
Co-Chairs, Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and Integration
Op-Ed in the European Voice, September 20, 2007
New
Policy Solutions for Closing Educational Gaps for Immigrant Children
Three new studies present policymakers with ideas for how best
to close achievement gaps between native-born students and immigrant
students or the children of immigrants across European countries.
Written by internationally renowned education policy experts, the
reports recommend that lawmakers focus on policies that bring children
of immigrants into the education system by the age of three, immerse
them in the language of their host countries, provide language
support through both primary and secondary school within a clear
framework, and afford more flexibility to move between academic
and vocational education.
Early
Education for Immigrant Children
By Paul Leseman, Utrecht University
Pathways
to Success for the Children of Immigrants
By Maurice Crul, University of Amsterdam
Language
Policies and Practices for Helping Immigrants and Second-Generation
Students Succeed
By Gayle Christensen, Urban Institute, and Petra Stanat, Free University
of Berlin
European
Immigration and the Labor Market
By Walter Nonneman, University of Antwerp
July 2007
In a new MPI report, Walter Nonneman finds that structural employment in the
EU has little to do with immigration. Rather, it is related to factors including
excessive regulation, EU worker immobility promoted by the welfare system and
other policy measures, and agreements between employers’ organizations
and labor unions that set wages. Dr. Nonneman finds that immigrants and non-EU
citizens add needed flexibility to the European labor market and promote economic
growth. He recommends that rather than relying on a closed-door approach to immigration,
policymakers should undertake labor market and social security reforms.
The
Age of Mobility: How to Get More Out of Migration in the 21st Century
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou
This is the first paper for the Transatlantic Task Force on
Immigration and Integration.
Prepared for the launch of the Task Force on March 23 in Berlin, "The
Age of Mobility”
lays out the future of migration in developed countries, the new context in which it
takes place, and the opportunities and challenges that migration poses for Western societies.
Other MPI publications on European migration:
European Migration Management
Illegal Immigration and the Unauthorized Population
Migration Information Source European Country Profiles
Immigrant Integration in Europe
European Asylum and Refugee Policies
Impacts on Labor Markets and the Economy
Comparative Perspectives on Migration Management
