Labour

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.

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.

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

Hans Werner Mundt trades off positive against negative effects of migration and argues why a cooperative management of migration is needed.

Thomas Huddleston discusses the MIPEX project as a means to evaluate European migration policies and illuminate aspects of policy impacts.

Emanuele Galossi and Maria Mora analyze discriminatory structures toward immigrants in the Italian labor market.

Doris Peschke highlights the shared responsibility and the strategic use of the resettlement of refugees in the EU.

Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Denis Drechsler and Jason Gagnon from the OECD Development Centre discuss how low- and middle-income countries should manage migration to serve their own economic goals.

James Wickham explores the conditions to design a European policy for skilled migration that also contributes towards social equity and social cohesion.

Irudaya Rajan and K.C. Zachariah present the results of the new survey about the impact of emigration flows in Kerala, India.