Cultural Integration Issues:

• “Ethnic School Segregation: Effects and Policies”

  
  

  Author: EUROMARGINS
  Date: Fall 2010

  The clustering of migrant populations in urban environments produces an uneven distribution of pupils with immigrant backgrounds at local schools, and high concentrations of them at some, often public schools. The educational outcomes at such ‘minority schools’ tend to be worse than at ‘majority schools’, but is this due to ethnic school segregation itself?
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Legal-Political Issues:

• “Diaspora Organizations from the Horn of Africa in Norway: Contributions to Peacebuilding?”

  
  

  Authors: Cindy Horst, Mohamed Husein Gaas
  Date: Winter 2009

  In this policy brief, ‘peacebuilding’ refers to activities aimed at the sustainable transformation of structural conflict factors and patterns. It presupposes a long-term commitment, on the part of both local and external actors, to a process that simultaneously addresses the material and the attitudinal level of a conflict. Diaspora organizations’ engagements with peacebuilding can take many forms and can be divided into direct and indirect activities.
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• Engagement Dynamics Between Diasporas and Settlement Country Institutions : Somalis in Italy and Finland

  
  

  Author: Petra Mezzetti, Valeria Saggiomo, Päivi Pirkkalainen, Matteo Guglielmo, Diaspeace
  Date: Fall 2010

  This study presents a comparative work on engagement dynamics occurring between the Somali diaspora1 and authorities in two countries of settlement, namely Italy and Finland.
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• The European Union and refugees: towards more restrictive asylum policies in the European Union?

  
  

  Author: Gritim
  Date: Summer 2011

  Several scholars have argued that European countries have decided to cooperate on asylum and migration matters at the EU level in order to develop more restrictive policies.
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Socio-Economic Issues:

• Categorisations and Discourses

  
  

  Author: EUROMARGINS
  Date: Fall 2010
  

  EUMARGINS first policy brief focuses on the various immigration discourses found in seven national contexts: Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Spain, Italy and France.
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• Is discrimination an issue? Young adults with immigration background in the labour market

  
  

  Author: EUROMARGINS
  Date: Fall 2010

  EUMARGINS third policy brief looks at discrimination as a factor of exclusion for young adults with immigration background in the labour markets of seven European countries: Estonia, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Norway. Several observations emerge from this analysis. First, access to the labour market is generally difficult for young people, but often more so for immigrant youth, especially for so-called visible minority youth.
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• “World Migration Report 2011,Communicating Effectively about Migration”

  
  

  Author: International Organization for Migration
  Date: Winter 2011

  Migrants’ voices must be heard in today’s all too often biased, polarized and negative debate on migration, says IOM’s World Migration Report 2011: Communicating Effectively about Migration.

  The report states that although we live in an era of the greatest human mobility in recorded history, with greater acknowledgement that migration is one of the defining features of our contemporary world, it remains one of the most misunderstood issues of our time.
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