International migrations have become the focus of current public debates and policies in various regions of the world, including Europe.
With the creation of the Migration Program in 2005 and then the Center for Migration and Citizenship in 2011, the French institute of international relations - Ifri was the first research institute to analyze migration and new practices of citizenship as a matter of international relations. In order to respond to a complex and polarizing issue, the Center for Migration and Citizenship aims at better shaping the debate and research with an independent and non-polemical approach. The Center’s work is directed to all kind of stakeholders active in the field of migration at the local, national, European and international levels: decision and law makers, authorities, not-for-profit organizations and the private sector.
The Center for Migration and Citizenship offers a unique perspective on migration and citizenship issues in France through:
The " Swedish Model " of labor immigration management came to a turning point with the 2008 reform. This major reform consisted in a deregulation of the labor market, which until then had only opened a limited number of positions to migrants. However, what consequences can be expected from...
The Arab Gulf is the third largest receiving region for global migrants (after North America and the European Union). The six states of the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) are the richest Arab economies, boast some of the highest GDP per capita rankings in the world, and they all depend upon...
The articles collected in this special issue set out to assess critically both aspects (making and representing the world) of national models from a comparative perspective, bringing together analysis of immigration countries in Europe (in the Netherlands, France and Britain) and settler...
More often than not, the notion of a national model of immigrant integration is held to be self-evident in the comparative scholarship. This type of reasoning, however, does not go without serious costs for the social sciences. Among these costs are the danger of reifying the categories used...
By the end of 2004, low migration flow regulation contributed to a high rate of irregularity and hampered adaptation of foreign labor supplies to the demands of the Spanish labor market, contributing therewith to an increase in irregular workers. The remarkable change came with the change of...
In the past 2 years, Greece has experienced its most severe economic crisis of the post-World War II period. While it appeared at first not to have been hit particularly hard by the global economic recession that started in 2008, the effects of the recession and the acute internal crisis of...
On Friday, the 13th of January, 2012, the Center for Migrations and Citizenship welcomed 3-star U.S. Army General Bostick as a speaker of its international conference: "Business and the State: Migration Policies, Diversity and Integration".
On Friday, the 13th of January, 2012, the Center for Migrations and Citizenship welcomed Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia - Cook County Commissioner, Chicago (USA) - as a speaker of its international conference "Business and the State: Migration Policies, Diversity and Integration".
While public opinion and European governments usually present migrants as an outside threat for European societies, in this article, Danièle Joly and Khursheed Wadia focus on the local level to analyze the issue of migrants, in particular irregular workers, living in the UK.
Christophe Bertossi's presentation, Understanding the crisis of national models of integration, Résidence de l'Ambassadeur du Royaume des Pays-Bas in Paris.
Second closed seminar of the project, organised by Ifri and ASSR (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research) at Ifri with Christophe Bertossi (Ifri), Jan Willem Duyvendak (ASSR, Amsterdam), Peter Scholten (Université de Twente), N
Christophe Bertossi's presentation, Annual conference of the Gulbenkian Migration Forum, Lisbon.
Intervention de Christophe Bertossi, Models of Difference and Belonging: Refiguring the Social Study of Europe, University de Washington à St-Louis, Social Sciences Research Council, St-Louis, USA.
Intervention de Christophe Bertossi pour la conclusion de la 31ème conférence annuelle de l'International Political Psychology Association, Paris.
Breakfast Meeting with Jean-Pierre Garson, chef de la Division des économies non membres et des migrations internationales, OCDE, and Guillaume Almeras, associé-gérant de BGV Consulting, membre de l'Institut de Prospective et d'Etude pour la Méditerranée....
Intervention de Christophe Bertossi, Muslims-Governments Relationship in a Changing Security Context, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Londres.
Intervention de Christophe Bertossi, Research-policy dialogue on immigration and integration in Europe, IMISCOE, Enschede.
Conference of Ifri and Maison Descartes at Amsterdam, with the support of the French Embassy in the Nederland. With Christophe Bertossi, Fellow and Responsable for the Programme "Migrations, Identities, Citizenship" at Ifri , Jan Willem Duyvendak, Professor,...
Intervention de Christophe Bertossi, Ifri en partenariat avec l'Université de Lund, Paris.
