Family-related migration has become one of the main legal means for people to gain admission. Yet, current political and public debates increasingly see the ‘migrant family’ as an obstacle to integration. As a result, family-related modes of migration are more and more becoming subject to restrictions. This brief makes several suggestions to improve family migration related policies.

This paper presents the main result of an ambitious research project on the dynamics of German, Polish and Turkish migrant organisations in the Netherlands over a period spanning more than a century.

Charles Westin and Niklas Westin offer an overview of world population development, the main trends in global urbanisation and the effects of fast-growing mega-cities that lack adequate environmental infrastructure and political stability.

This working paper offers a well-written and most comprehensive overview on regularisation. The paper includes a systematic empirical analysis of all regularisation programmes in the EU-27.

This brief addresses the question how we can organise dialogues between research and policy in such a way that contributes to the resolution of complicated migration-related social problems.