[colombiamigra] Fw: MPI Europe launches European migration policy brief series; EU agenda for migration & asylum policy is topic of 1st brief
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Press Release
20 February 2013
Contact: Michelle Mittelstadt
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Migration Policy Institute Europe launches policy brief series focusing on top
European migration challenges
Beyond Stockholm: First brief examines changed environment facing EU as it must
develop
a new European agenda for immigration & asylum policy
BRUSSELS — Migration Policy Institute Europe today launched a policy brief
series that will examine some of the top European migration challenges and
opportunities, with a brief that focuses on the changed empirical and policy
environment in which the European Union finds itself with regard to
immigration.
In Facing 2020: developing a new European agenda for immigration and asylum
policy, MPI Europe Director Elizabeth Collett sketches the challenges in
developing a strategic, long-term agenda on migration even as Europe remains
beset by fiscal uncertainty and a jobs crisis that is particularly acute for
the young. Against such a backdrop, few governments are willing to have a
serious conversation about anything but skilled immigration.
Yet Collett argues in the policy brief that this is precisely the moment for
thinking strategically about immigration, and that failure to lay the
groundwork for a smart 2020 action plan will have grave consequences for
Europe’s future economic competitiveness and maintenance of social standards.
As the European Commission looks ahead to the next strategic programme for
immigration in 2014, the brief makes the case that there remains an important
role for the EU with respect to immigration, integration, and asylum
policymaking – though the successive five-year plans that have been the
centrepiece of the Union’s migration strategy since 1999 are no longer up to
the challenge. The European Union will need to work with national policymakers
to shape policies consistent with the new landscape of constantly changing
global economic and demographic conditions, fluctuating labour demand, and
evolving patterns of immigrant settlement and mobility.
“Leaders should begin by envisioning the European society that they hope to see
in a generation—and what will be needed to achieve it—rather than articulating
supplemental additions to existing EU policies,” Collett writes. “They should
avoid setting out immigration targets and goals in isolation; and any future
agenda should consider the role of immigration alongside other relevant
policies, from skills development and education to external affairs.”
In the coming months, MPI Europe briefs will examine topics such as emigration
from Europe, the relationship between climate change and migration, and how to
adapt education systems to ensure that the children of immigrants reach their
potential as the next generation of European citizens.
“Since its founding a year ago, MPI Europe has dedicated itself to providing
thoughtful but pragmatic policy solutions for European leaders responsible for
immigration and immigrant integration,” said MPI Europe President Demetrios
Papademetriou. “This policy brief series will offer the forward-looking but
practical approach to effective policymaking on all matters migration in the EU
and thus set the stage for fruitful conversations within the Commission and
between it and national policymakers with the interests of Europe’s economies,
communities, and the broader society squarely in mind. This is a time to reject
advocacy on either side of the issue and understand well the facts and
non-ideological analyses that can move this issue forward and thus contribute
to building the economically robust, socially cohesive, and diversity-embracing
Europe of the future.”
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MPI Europe provides authoritative research and practical policy design to
governmental and nongovernmental stakeholders who seek more effective
management of immigration, immigrant integration, and asylum systems, as well
as better outcomes for newcomers, families of immigrant background, and
receiving communities throughout Europe. MPI Europe also provides a forum for
the exchange of information on migration and immigrant integration practices
within the European Union and Europe more generally.
MPI Europe, based in Brussels, builds upon the work that the Migration Policy
Institute (MPI) has done for years in Europe. Through its Transatlantic Council
on Migrationand other initiatives, MPI has advised a number of EU presidencies
and performed significant research and policy design on European and
transatlantic topics. These range from the effects of the global economic
crisis on migrant and native-born workforces to current and future demographic
trends, citizenship policy, and the current debates over national identity.
For more on MPI Europe, visit www.MPIEurope.org.
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