Legal migration for work and training: Mobility options to Europe for those not in need of protection (January 2018 – March 2021)

“Legal migration for work and training: Mobility options to Europe for those not in need of protection” is a project of the Research Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration in cooperation with the Migration Policy Institute Europe, funded by Stiftung Mercator. Given large-scale irregular migration flows to Europe, the central question is what legal alternatives do and could exist for third-country nationals who are not in need of protection and who move for education, training and or work. Through a combination of five country case studies (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden) and analysis of the European Union’s external migration policy, the project explores existing legal migration options, challenges in policy design and implementation, and reflects on the options for the development of effective legal migration policies and programmes.

Project results were made available in a series of shorter publications between December 2018 and June 2019. The final study was published in English in October 2019. The German version of the final report was launched on 20 November 2019.

project description

Publications

Study

Legal migration for work and training: Mobility options to Europe for those not in need of protection

Country Case Studies

Country case study France (by Yves Pascouau and Christophe Pouly)

Country case study Germany (by SVR’s Research Unit)

Country case study Italy (by Roberta Perna)

Country case study Spain (by MPI Europe)

Country case study Sweden (by Delmi / Bernd Parusel)

Further publications

Can the European Union deliver feasible options for legal migration? Contradictions between rhetoric, limited competence and national interests (by SVR’s Research Unit)