MPG launches the first of its MIPEX Policy Impact Assessments: What future for immigrant families in Europe – the high road back to Tampere or the low road on from Vichy? This MIPEX Policy Brief on Family Reunion is the 1st in a series of retrospective and prospective MIPEX policy impact assessments. The aim is to make information on EU policy developments more accessible to a wide range of stakeholders …Read More

Learning to Welcome: Integration of immigrants in Latvia and Poland This publications is part of a joint project with the Center for Public Policy Providus in Latvia and the Institute of Public Affairs in Poland Authors: Dace Akule, Rita Kasa, Iveta Kesane, Thomas Huddleston, Mirosław Bieniecki, Piotr Kaźmierkiewicz This publication includes research about the legislation that influences the integration of immigrants – labour market access, family reunification conditions, anti-discrimination, political …Read More

Do integration policies matter? Seminar paper for the Conference of European Statisticians seminar on “measuring population movement and integration in a globalised world” In its seminar paper “Do integration policies matter? The MIPEX study and a joined-up approach to measuring success,” Thomas Huddleston outlines how stakeholders can establish the causal links between policies, implementation, outcomes, and the other factors at play in integration processes by developing other statistical and analytical …Read More

A unique study which measures policies to integrate migrants in 25 EU Member States and 3 non-EU countries. Authors: Jan Niessen, Thomas Huddleston and Laura Citron, in cooperation with Andrew Geddes and Dirk Jacobs What is MIPEX? MIPEX is a unique tool which measures policies to integrate migrants in 25 EU Member States and three non-EU countries. It uses over 140 policy indicators to create a rich, multi-dimensional picture of migrants’ …Read More

Compilation report of the Tallinn Conference on Conceptualising Integration October 18-19 2007 Including article by MPG Policy Analyst, Thomas Huddleston: ‘Migrant Integration Policy Index – Benchmarking Policies in Europe’ On October 18-19, 2007, the Tallinn Conference on Conceptualising Integration was held that focused on the Estonian integration policy. While being in the middle of composing the new state programme for the years 2008-2013 at the time of the conference, I’m glad that …Read More

The publication ‘Civic citizenship and immigrant inclusion – a guide for the implementation of civic citizenship policies’ is a manual for stakeholders seeking to track changes in national policies and laws and to check compliance with international and European standards. Authors: Jan Niessen, Maria Jose Peiro and Yongmi Schibel The report proposes a framework of civic citizenship standards which covers the crucial policy areas of long-term residence, family reunification, nationality …Read More

The European Civic Citizenship and Inclusion Index presents the policies of 15 EU Member States in a concise and innovative format which allows for quick comparisons, from policy area to policy area, from one Member State to another and also against a normative framework of European standards. Author(s): British Council Brussels, Foreign Policy Centre, MPG This study was the initial version of what became the Migrant Integration Policy Index(MIPEX). The European …Read More