• Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration post 1945, and many European nations today (particularly those of the EU-15) have sizeable immigrant populations, both of European and non-European origin. (wikipedia.org)
  • Over the last decades, there has been an increase in negative attitudes towards immigration, and many studies have emphasized marked differences in the strength of anti-immigrant attitudes among European countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beginning in 2004, the European Union has granted EU citizens a freedom of movement and residence within the EU, and the term "immigrant" has since been used to refer to non-EU citizens, meaning that EU citizens are not to be defined as immigrants within the EU territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cubans comprise the largest Caribbean immigrant group in the United States, and for decades have benefitted from uniquely preferential immigration programs. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • A young immigrant woman from Eastern Europe works at one of the machines, often for more than ten hours a day. (bremerhaven.de)
  • A large proportion of immigrants in western European states have come from former eastern bloc states in the 1990s, especially in Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • The number of Slovenes did not change significantly until the post-Civil War flow of immigrants from southern Europe began. (histclo.com)
  • I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. (wlu.ca)
  • According to the Statistical Office of the European Community, in 2004, Spain was the European country that received the highest number of immigrants in absolute terms, with 652,000 immigrants, representing most of the 1.7% total population growth [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • One of the most worrisome political issues regarding immigration is the ability of healthcare services to serve the increasing number of immigrants, and to provide equity of access to healthcare services among this population [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In contemporary globalization, migrations to Europe have accelerated in speed and scale. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the collapse of the Roman Empire, migration was again mostly coupled with warlike invasion, not least during the so-called migration period (Germanic), the Slavic migrations, the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, the Islamic conquests and the Turkic expansion into Eastern Europe (Kipchaks, Tatars, Cumans). (wikipedia.org)
  • The 3rd issue of Voice Over "BORDERS" is about MIGRATIONS, immigration and emigration. (coe.int)
  • If migrations in the Western world is somehow a "hip" research field and the topic camps on our newspapers on a daily base, very little is said about migrations outside the European border, despite representing the majority of the migration flows. (uibk.ac.at)
  • This domain comprises series of long-term international immigration during the reference year of people reporting "Foreign country" as Country of citizenship. (who.int)
  • Ecuador is an ethnically diverse country, due in part to its varied migration patterns among Africans, Europeans, Middle Easterners, and Indigenous people since the pre-colonial era. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Many Africans came to Rome to study or on a pilgrimage so it was a different sort of immigration, and there were only a few of us anyway. (euroalter.com)
  • A number also went to other European countries (notably France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium). (wikipedia.org)
  • With the earlier of the two recent enlargements of the EU, although most countries restricted free movement by nationals of the acceding countries, the United Kingdom did not restrict for the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and received Polish, Latvian and other citizens of the new EU states. (wikipedia.org)
  • Close to 20 million, mostly young and skilled Eastern Europeans-equal to the combined population of the Czech Republic and Hungary-left their countries over the past 25 years to seek better opportunities abroad (Chart 1). (imf.org)
  • And even as they have contributed to the riches of the receiving countries and the EU as a whole, their departure has slowed growth and convergence of their home countries to the living standards of advanced Europe. (imf.org)
  • This has left Eastern European countries worse off (Chart 3). (imf.org)
  • Boon for Europe as a whole How about the impact of the east-west migration on receiving countries? (imf.org)
  • The westward migration seems to have contributed to stronger growth in Western European countries and been an economic boon for the European Union as a whole. (imf.org)
  • What's more, the trends could further intensify with new countries getting ready to join the European Union. (imf.org)
  • better institutions and economic policies in home countries would make it more attractive for people to stay, for emigrants to return, and for people from other countries to seek jobs in Eastern Europe. (imf.org)
  • The role of non-EU destinations has diminished and consequently emigration from the CEE European Union countries proceeds primarily within intra-EU mobility regulations. (imiscoe.org)
  • For centuries, large numbers of German-speaking people have emigrated from settlements in Europe to other countries and continents. (wlu.ca)
  • A new survey shows southern and eastern European countries are more concerned by emigration than immigration. (euronews.com)
  • It also compares the growth of the UK population with other European countries. (ons.gov.uk)
  • Likewise, European and other countries should remember how they have also experienced both immigration and emigration "the hard way. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • He was thinking of the former Soviet Union and the countries in Eastern Europe, but he should probably have included their Marxist fellow travellers, their sympathizers and apologists in the West. (blogspot.com)
  • Directrice: they say they want to see the European countries because they have never been to a European country. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Chiara: and why do they want to see European countries? (uibk.ac.at)
  • The crowing of King Mohammed VI at the beginning of this century has significantly inverted the course of this approach towards Europe, outdistancing Morocco from the Northern neighbours and reinforcing the ties with the other African countries. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Until 25 years ago, it was the Italians who were leaving, going to countries like the US, Belgium and France… Immigration in Italy is a fairly new phenomenon, even though it is now a structural phenomenon, not one of emergency as people seem to think. (euroalter.com)
  • Unlike other European countries such as the Netherlands, the percentages of refugees fleeing from political and ethnic persecution or civil war are very low. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Despite the fact that the nation state emerged in a time characterised by extensive mobility and the "discovery" of new cultures on continents previously unknown to Europeans, the system is based on an assumption of people as normally domiciled within their countries' borders, and that international migration is the exception rather than the rule. (lu.se)
  • Global migration and immigration have also contributed to the increase in developed countries. (medscape.com)
  • Since the early 1980s, Ecuador has experienced three major waves of emigration, and as of mid-2020 about 8 percent of its population (1.2 million Ecuadorians) lived abroad, according to UN data. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • gional economic disparities and job opportunities, in These high rates of mobility have increased the need both the formal and informal sector, lead to large labour for access and utilization of health care services for and migration flows (i.e. both emigration and immigration), by these populations while on the move and within the involving highly skilled and low skilled migrants. (who.int)
  • There were substantial population movements within Europe throughout the Early Modern period, mostly in the context of the Reformation and the European wars of religion, and again as a result of World War II. (wikipedia.org)
  • The population is growing, as recent years have seen the largest wave of emigration in Cuba's modern history. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • The UK population is one of the largest in the European Union. (ons.gov.uk)
  • Covering an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) and with a population of 9.2 million, Belarus is the 13th-largest and the 20th-most populous country in Europe. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thus, the population increase due to immigration does not translate directly into a corresponding increase in the number of emergency contacts. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Eastwards enlargements of the European Union changed the context of the mobility in the region introducing, among others, what can be called a duality of emigration and immigration regimes in the CEE region. (imiscoe.org)
  • This work poses an invaluable resource to the understudied area of Habsburg Empire migration studies, which it relocates within its wider European context and provides a major methodological contribution to the history of human migration more broadly. (purdue.edu)
  • The conference will provide a unique opportunity to explore both emigration and immigration in a global, European and Irish context. (catholicbishops.ie)
  • Emigration from the region changed from predominantly circular, often irregular, into documented, long-term or fluid migration - involving readiness of migrants to change residence in the Union. (imiscoe.org)
  • Most current emigration is irregular and originates throughout the country. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Further liberalization of immigration regimes, especially for skilled workers, could be considered as well. (imf.org)
  • Central and Eastern Europe - duality of emigration and immigration regimes? (imiscoe.org)
  • Its main focus is the role of the duality of regimes, political and legal, governing emigration from and immigration to the CEE region in these processes. (imiscoe.org)
  • In-depth studies on migration in central and Eastern Europe : the case of Ukraine / edited by Tomas Frejka, Marek Okólski and Keith Sword. (who.int)
  • The opening up of Eastern Europe to the rest of the world in the early 1990s brought about tremendous benefits. (imf.org)
  • Emigration slowed growth in Eastern Europe Economic migration is driven by personal choices. (imf.org)
  • Making it work for all Overall, European Union membership brought substantial benefit for Eastern Europe. (imf.org)
  • The unique role of Central and Eastern Europe in the European migration system dates back to the early 1990s. (imiscoe.org)
  • The second day was dedicated to a workshop with panels focusing on the major changes that have taken place in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the last three decades. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Values based approaches looked at the differences between Eastern Europe and Western Europe and the capacities and the limitations of the two to be at the core of a united European continent. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Belarus , [b] officially the Republic of Belarus , [c] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe . (wikipedia.org)
  • The current emigration period involving hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians began in 2019 and continued as of this writing, set off by factors including an increase in violence and domestic insecurity and the lasting economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • The inability of the families to speak the local languages, persisting racism and religious discrimination, and a high level of unemployment still push migrant families to perceive Morocco only as a temporary residence before being able to move towards Europe or North America. (uibk.ac.at)
  • She seems to be equally convinced, though, that she does not want to live there in the future, but prefers to live somewhere in Europe or North America. (uibk.ac.at)
  • The Ottomans once again established a multi-ethnic imperial structure across Western Asia and Southeastern Europe, but Turkification in Southeastern Europe was due more to cultural assimilation than to mass immigration. (wikipedia.org)
  • The state's discretion when it comes to immigration has one main exception, and this concerns refugees. (lu.se)
  • Moderation, EU Immigration Policies, 27th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies , 21-25 June 2021 Presentation, How to Handle the Exodus? (uni-flensburg.de)
  • Muslims and the State in Britain, France and Germany (2004), Luxembourg as an Immigration Success Story: The Grand Duchy in Pan-European Perspective (2011), Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan (2013), and Open Borders and International Migration Policy: The Effects of Unrestricted Immigration in the United States, France, and Ireland (2015). (cdlib.org)
  • To understand these dynamics, this paper proposes that we understand the UK as an 'emigration state: a state that has turned the emigration of its citizens into an imperialist policy to connect its metropolitan core to settler peripheries. (londonmet.ac.uk)
  • Spain was not restricted for the 2007 enlargement of the European Union and received many Romanians and Bulgarians as well other citizens of the new EU states. (wikipedia.org)
  • Results point to the emergence of two kinds of discourses inside the text, as well as the strategies from which both discourses allow the construction of citizens' identities as a new way of governability in the spaces of contemporary European cities. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the past ten years, Ecuador has emerged as a significant destination for South American migrants, a country of transit for those heading north, and a renewed source of emigration, mostly to the United States. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the UK (including Ireland up to 1922) sent out the most migrants of any comparable western European country. (londonmet.ac.uk)
  • For decades, the Kingdom has played a crucial role as EU right hand to stop the flux of migrants from reaching the European shores. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Italian doctor and author, Kossi Amékowoyoa Komla-Ebri was born in Togo (Tsévié) on 10 January 1954 and has written various books concerning immigration in Italy. (euroalter.com)
  • The number of Eastern Europeans flooding into Britain has soared to 700 a day. (polishforums.com)
  • World War I (1914-18) largely ended the Europen immograntvflow, but we we see renewed Slovenian immigration after the War (1919-23) which only ended when Congress curtailed immigration with restrictive quotas. (histclo.com)
  • Slovenian immigration is difficult to quantify. (histclo.com)
  • In those days it was more like an intellectual immigration so people did not have the same aggressive attitudes towards us as they do today. (euroalter.com)
  • Bringing historical census data, governmental statistics, and ship manifests into conversation with centuries-old migration patterns of servants, agricultural workers, seasonal laborers, peddlers, and artisans-both male and female-this research argues that Central Europeans have long been mobile, that this mobility has been driven by diverse motivations, and that post-1850 transatlantic migration was an obvious extension of earlier spatial mobility patterns. (purdue.edu)
  • Morocco is a key migratory hub: immigration, emigration and transit migration towards Europe generate an intricate web of stories of mobility. (uibk.ac.at)
  • In monthly articles, Voice Over, an online magazine created by international artist David Liver with the support of the Intercultural Cities Programme of the Council of Europe , invites renowned provocative thinkers from the international sphere to address questions such as "How do we address intercultural, interclass, or inter-racial issues for raising criticism, exercising resistance, and experimenting with alternative discourses? (coe.int)
  • It also accelerated emigration, which made it difficult to hold Irish families together in a treacherous sea of breakdown and dispersal. (rte.ie)
  • Apart from the very valid reasons for which anyone would consider it a great privilege to appear before the Council of Europe, I have particular reasons of my own to thank you, and through you the members of this Assembly, for having given me the opportunity of meeting you on your own ground. (unhcr.org)
  • The first of those reasons is that the Council of Europe has continually demonstrated in many ways its genuine interest in the refugee problem with its varied aspects and implications. (unhcr.org)
  • What's more, unlike most other European states, the UK actually subsidised emigration with government spending. (londonmet.ac.uk)
  • Spain has traditionally been a country of emigration, with immigration being a relatively recent phenomenon. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The departure of some of the youngest and brightest makes Eastern Europe's process of catching up to advanced Europe more challenging. (imf.org)
  • To what extent was "European" civilization forged by Europe's connections to the wider world, and by ideas, art, literature, and politics that originated outside the geographical boundaries of Europe? (amherst.edu)
  • Dr. Joel S. Fetzer is the author of numerous publications on comparative immigration politics and on religion and political behavior. (cdlib.org)
  • And how did various people - in Europe, in the empires, and beyond - forge new social, cultural, and political solidarities through their critiques of the idea of European civilization? (amherst.edu)
  • As such, economic migration is an indicator of success of the European Union project, which sees freedom of movement as necessary for greater economic integration and, ultimately, higher incomes for all. (imf.org)
  • Like other European ethnic groups, many were classified from the Empire thet camne from, in this case Austria or were confused with other groups like Italians, Croats, or a general Slavic label. (histclo.com)
  • The European Commission defines "immigration" as the action by which a person from a non-EU country establishes his or her usual residence in the territory of an EU country for a period that is or is expected to be at least twelve months. (wikipedia.org)
  • This country is one of the doors to Europe, due to the two Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and the proximity to the Spanish coasts. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Belarus is the only European country that continues to use capital punishment . (wikipedia.org)
  • No one wanted to rent their houses to young people fleeing the military dictatorship in Greece and there were so many prejudices towards them that many people did not think the country would ever be allowed into the European Community. (euroalter.com)
  • It is only recently that Italy, essentially a country of emigration, became a country of immigration. (euroalter.com)
  • Immigration" denotes the action by which a person establishes his or her usual residence in the territory of a Member State for a period that is, or is expected to be, of at least 12 months, having previously been usually resident in another EU Member State or a third country. (who.int)
  • In the late medieval period, the Romani people moved into Europe both via Anatolia and the Maghreb. (wikipedia.org)
  • His courses at Pepperdine focus on East Asia, immigration, comparative European politics, American people and politics, and urban development. (cdlib.org)
  • The course will combine a study of canonical works of European art, literature, and politics with less well-known texts and works of art created by "non-European" people. (amherst.edu)
  • rather, it is the receiving country's right to determine their immigration policy. (lu.se)
  • Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. (wikipedia.org)
  • Europe and other parts of the world at a "critical juncture" when it comes to migration and the management of migration policies, the Pope said. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Historian Rashid Khalidi guides us through the history of settlements and displacement going back to the age of European colonialism. (npr.org)
  • With income and institutional differences between East and West remaining wide, the push and pull factors driving emigration from the east are likely to persist for some time. (imf.org)
  • By exchanging research and findings, we can construct a better view of events and ideas that have shaped the European continent over the last century, while focusing specifically on the experience of the Central and South-East Europe region. (lse.ac.uk)
  • I understand that Britons are worried about the huge influx of east Europeans. (polishforums.com)
  • the Jewish diaspora in Europe was the result of the First Jewish-Roman War of AD 66-73. (wikipedia.org)
  • How was the idea of a coherent European culture and character used as a tool of conquest within the European empires? (amherst.edu)
  • Studying the UK's emigration state might transform the way we think about Britain's modern history and provide new ways to compare the UK and its empire with other empires in Europe and beyond. (londonmet.ac.uk)
  • In the absence of emigration between 1995 and 2012, real GDP growth would have been altogether 7 percentage points higher on the average in the region, according to analytical work by IMF staff. (imf.org)
  • Immigration to the CEE region increased and became more regularised. (imiscoe.org)
  • The paper addresses the continuation and change in migration trends in CEE region as a consequence of eastwards enlargements of the European Union. (imiscoe.org)
  • The database was constructed for the purpose of supporting the Child and Adolescent Health and Development Strategy (2015), providing the relevant information for monitoring progress on child and adolescent health indicators in the 53 member states of the WHO European Region. (who.int)
  • His research from Luxembourg prompted him to write Luxembourg as an Immigration Success Story: The Grand Duchy in Pan-European Perspective in 2011. (cdlib.org)
  • Large and persistent emigration appears to have slowed both overall and per capita output growth rates. (imf.org)