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Research on female labour migrants has been generally neglected in the discourse of global labour migration. Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram refute the assumption that female migrants are unemployed because they do not have skills, tracing misconceptions of gender discrimination in employment against migrant women.

Herbert Brücker und Carola Burkert analysieren die Vor- und Nachteile einer Angebots- oder nachfrageorientierten Steuerung der Zuwanderung.

Dietrich Thränhardt observes that despite a growing need for immigration in Germany, numbers are decreasing and except for rhetorical assurances integration has worsened in the past decades. He sees new chances for the EU with the opening of labour markets to the new members if bureaucratic obstacles are reduced.

The dossier addresses the issue of growing labour mobility supply and demand within the European continent and challenges social, legal and economic policies restricting this process.

Konferenzbericht der Tagung Mobility and Inclusion - Highly-skilled Labour Migration in Europe

Wadim Strielkowski acknowledges many different reasons why Eastern Europeans migrate to Western Europe, prioritising psychological factors and fair financial reward, so called pull factors, as the most significant aspects.

Krista Sager kritisiert, dass noch immer große Chancen vertan werden, die sich aus dem Potenzial mitgebrachter Bildungsressourcen für die Wissensgesellschaft, den Arbeitsmarkt und integrationspolitisch ergeben. Dies geschehe vor allem, weil die Möglichkeiten, ausländische Abschlüsse in Deutschland formal anerkannt zu bekommen, völlig unzureichend seien.

Since special skills and family reunions are increasingly the only legal way to enter Europe, people find themselves pushed to search for other ways. The journalist Antonio Cruz portrays three real life examples of illegal migrants and their experiences living in Belgium

In Romania there are about 60 000 legal immigrants, most of them of Arab, Turkish, Chinese and Moldavian origin. The presence of foreign citizens in Romania is a rather unknown phenomenon as neither they, nor the media raise much attention about it.