Migration and Democracy: Migrant Participation in Public Affairs
Summary
Migration and Democracy: Migrant Participation in Public Affairs. Background paper for 4 September 2009 expert meeting on civic participation of migrants
Description
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) commissioned Thomas Huddleston, Policy Analyst with the Migration Policy Group, to write a background paper on the civic and political participation of migrants in Europe. The paper was presented at the OSCE meeting on migrants’ civic participation in Warsaw on 4 September.
This background paper provides an overview of existing international and European legal standards, political commitments at European level, national policies in Europe, and finally a literature review of existing comparative European research on policy implementation and immigrant outcomes.
