Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees - GCIR

The global economic downturn is affecting the public sector in Europe and rising debt levels will impact public spending in the future. Many European countries experienced economic growth as a result of immigration in the early 21st century, including Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Perceptions of immigration in the context of growing unemployment rates has caused several countries to consider or adopt stricutre immigration policies and question the so-called multicularalism model of integration.

The Migration Policy Institute's Transatlantic Council on Migration conducted a questionnaire to gauge government reactions to integration organization, financing, and programming across Europe. This report is partly informed by this survey and identifies areas of concern over the next decade and identifies current integration practices of governments.

The number and diversity of immigrants to affluent countries has risen greatly
during recent decades, with low and middle income countries becoming increasingly prominent in the mix of immigrant origins. Immigrants often are in the family building stage of life, bringing one or more children along to the settlement country and bearing additional children after they arrive. As a consequence, although considerable public attention, and often controversy, has focused on the rising share of adults in affluent countries who are immigrants, even larger is the share of all children who are children of immigrants. Yet not until 2009 did basic, internationally comparable indicators become available to measure the number of children in immigrant families living in a range of affluent countries, and to assess their family and socioeconomic circumstances compared to children in native-born families. The articles in this special edition of Child Indicators Research present an overview of these comparative results, as well as more in depth analyses for six countries.

This report examines the myriad impacts of the global financial crisis on global migration, finding that economic migration has slowed in recent months due to reduced job opportunities in destination countries and yet migrants are not returning to their countries of origin despite diminished economic opportunities.

The report focuses on migration flows to and from the major migrant-destination regions of the world, including: the United States, European Union, Canada and Australia; as well as movement in major migration corridors: the United States-Mexico; United Kingdom-Eastern Europe; Spain-Romania and Spain-Morocco; and Gulf State flows from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and the Philippines.

In an increasingly globalized world, many experts are considering the idea of migration without borders that allows people more freedom of mobility between nations. This book brings together regional approaches from scholars across the globe to consider the various aspects of such a policy.

Many countries -- such as Spain, Ireland and United Arab Emirates -- rely on immigration to boost a shrinking labor force. But Singapore's immigration plan is unique because it would boost the population by nearly 50 percent, to the point where those born in Singapore would barely form a majority in their own country.

Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation in the world, is highly diverse in terms of both terrain and culture. Muslims, Christians, and Hindus, along with followers of other faiths, share this enormous archipelago in the waters between the Indian and Pacific oceans.