Background analysis for Migration Trends in Europe

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Background analysis for Migration Trends in Europe

• Workshop A
• 4. DRC Summer School on Regional Co-operation
• Inez Koller
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, Political
  Science Program, University of Pécs
• 2007. 07.23. Pécs, Bagolyvár Fogadó

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• There is a need for common immigration and asylum
  policy in the European Union

• There is no common interest to promote such
  immigration and asylum policy

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• Pull factors
• Economical growth
• Demand on workforce
• Higher standard of living

• Push factors
• Unemployement
• Poverty
• Crisis (political, economic, human)
• Social conflicts
• Natural disasters

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Migration patterns

• Maximalise standard of living
• Historical relation between countries of origin
  and countries of destination
• Presence of settled groups with similar culture,
  language or nationality
• Geographycal accessibility

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Historical relations

• Colonial countries and their colonies
• Russian Federation and post-sovjet countries
• Germany and countries containing German
  nationalities
• Influence of the first economic migration to
  West-Europe on Balkan crisis

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Geographical accessibility

• Change in the make-up of immigrants in Greece,
  Italy and Spain

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Further migration pattern shaping factors

• Direct high social net
• Indirect saturation of destination countries
• different strictness in immigration
• laws between member states of the EU

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Types of Migration in Europe

• Legal and voluntary
• Return migration
• Nationality migration
• Economic migration
• Family unification
• Illegal and voluntary
• Smuggling of migrants

• Legal and forced
• Refugees, asylumseekers
• Change population
• Displace people
• Illegal and forced
• Trafficing in persons

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Group I.

• Sourse ILO

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Group II.

Sourse ILO
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Group III.
Sourse ILO
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Group IV.
Sourse ILO
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Group V.
Sourse ILO
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Group VI.
Sourse ILO
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Group VII.

• Sourse ILO

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New Tendencies

• West
• Change in the compostion of immigrants both
  geographically and by type

• East
• Strengthened economical emigration and new
  approaches to immigration

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• Thank you for your attention.