THE HAGUE – One was a Somali refugee, the other an Argentine investment banker. Both are now high-profile Dutch women challenging this country to rethink its national identity. Princess Maxima, the Argentine-born wife of Crown Prince Willem Alexander, triggered a round of national soul-searching with a speech last month about what exactly it means to…
The Migration Integration Policy Index reveals a great deal of hidden detail about the subtleties of migration to, and within Europe. Researches looked at laws and policies concerning labor, opportunities to naturalize, political freedoms, and humanitarian issues, and developed an index based on 140 indicators.
The Migration Integration Policy Index reveals a great deal of hidden detail about the subtleties of migration to, and within Europe. Research looked at laws and policies concerning labor, opportunities to naturalize, political freedoms, and humanitarian issues, and developed an index based on 140 indicators.
Political and governmental conflict still divides Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, but the two communities put aside their differences to approve a tough new approach concerning asylum and economic migration. Under the agreement, migrants from outside the EU will only be able to fill jobs if there are not enough EU candidates. Further toughening of…
In recent years, scholarly attention has shifted away from debates on ethnicity to focus on issues of migration and citizenship. Inspired, in part, by earlier studies on European guestworker migration, these debates are fed by the new “transnational mobility”, by the immigration of Muslims, by the increasing importance of human rights law, and by the…
