European and US Immigration Systems - European and US Immigration Systems

European and US Immigration Systems

A Collaborative Project on Improving the Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges

This project is identifying ways in which European and US immigration systems can be substantially improved to address major challenges policymakers confront on both sides of the Atlantic, in the context of the current economic turmoil and in the longer term.

The project is directed at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute, Florence) by Philippe Fargues , and at the Migration Policy Institute by Demetrios Papademetriou .

Coordinators: Giambattista Salinari (EUI) and Madeleine Sumption (MPI)

Final Report

Shared Challenges and Opportunities for EU and US Immigration Policymakers

by Philippe Fargues, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Giambattista Salinari, and Madeleine Sumption

Background Papers & Policy Briefs

Topic	EU Background Papers	US Background Papers	Policy Briefs
Security	Düvell & Vollmer	Koslowski	Collett
Cooperation	Weinar	Rosenblumb	De Bel-Air Papademetriou & Sumption
Social Cohesion	Ruedin & D’Amato	Jiménez	Martiniello
Competitiveness	Jonkers	Papademetriou & Sumption	Papademetriou & Sumption
Human Rights	Chetail & Bauloz	Kerwin	Guild
Development	Collyer	Terrazas	Newland
Employment	Brücker	Terrazas	Papademetriou & Sumption Sumption M. McHugh & A. E. Challinor
Demography	Fargues		Dalla Zuanna
Civil society			N. Banulescu-Bogdan

US to EU migration

Migration from the United States to the European Union: trends and characteristics by Anna Di Bartolomeo and Giambattista Salinari

Case Studies

European Union	United States
Immigration and Crime: The European Experience by Martin Killias	Transatlantic Cooperation on Travelers’ Data Processing: From Sorting Countries to Sorting Individuals by Paul De Hert and Rocco Bellanova
Social Cohesion and Diaspora Politics by Jonathan Laurence	Pay-to-Go Schemes and Other Noncoercive Return Program: is Scale Possible? by Richard Black, Michael Collyer and Will Somerville
The Evolution of Public Attitudes toward Immigration in Europe and the United States by Joel S. Fetzer	Migration Industries: A Comparison of the Ecuador-US and Ecuador-Spain Cases by David J. Kyle and Rachel Goldstein
The Libyan Migration Corridor by Sylvie Bredeloup and Olivier Pliez	Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States by K. Brick and M. Rosenblum
The Irregular Migration Corridor between the EU and Turkey by Ahmet İçduygu	New Streams: Black African Migration to the United States by k. McCabe, R. Capps, M. Fix
The Ukrainian Migratory Corridor by Alissa V. Tolstokorova

EU to US migration

Scientists, Managers, and Tourists: The Changing Shape of European Migration to the United States by X. Hu and M. Sumption