German: Ungenutzte Potentiale: Zur Lage der Integration in Deutschland Germany is currently home to some 15 million immigrants and their offspring born in the country. What this means is that close to 20 percent of the population has what is known as a migration background. In their recent report, the Berlin Institute for Population and…
Registration is now available for the Bristol-UCL Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship conference on Post-Immigration Minorities, Religion and National Identities, 14-15 November, 2008 in Bristol. A limited number of places are available for non-paper givers and those not connected to the Programme. The Leverhulme Programme team will address topics based on the following themes:…
L’Union européenne, avec ses 27 États, s’étend désormais aux pays de l’Europe de l’Est qui entretiennent une relation avec l’islam et sa civilisation ancrée dans l’histoire. De ce fait, le nombre de musulmans en Europe – près de 50 millions aujourd’hui – s’est considérablement accru, avec son lot de fantasmes sur la “possible islamisation” du…
Several recent incidents of illegal migration in just a couple of days sparked concern among Sicilian officials. A six-meter boat carrying 31 migrants arrived at the port of Lampedusa, and others were found on one of the Pelagie islands near Lampedusa in a small wooden boat. In a separate incident just a day later, 106…
Italian prime minister Romano Prodi and his Spanish counterpart Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero plan to meet in Naples to discuss issues of immigration, as more and more migrants seem to be killed attempting to make the risky trip from Africa. Hundreds of people die each year trying to cross into the two countries to try…
