Why Did the Irish Reject Lisbon? An Analysis of Referendum Results (ARI)
This ARI looks at the referendum results and examines the different factors that help explain why the Irish electorate voted against the Lisbon Treaty on 12 June 2008.
Democracy and citizenship
Language and Immigration: An Analysis of the Development of Linguistic Requirements in Immigration Policy
What relationship exists between language and migratory patterns? What is the role of language in flows of immigrants and in immigration policies? Is it advantageous for an immigrant to know the language of the host country? These and other questions are at the heart of this reflection on the relationship between the language an immigrant speaks and the dominant language of the host country.
Integration Contracts for Immigrants: Common Trends and Differences in the European Experience (ARI)
‘Integration contracts’ for immigrants have become widespread in Europe during the last 10 years but their results remain unclear.
Is There a Divide Between Europe’s Elites and its Citizens? (ARI)
This work aims to analyse the opinions of Spanish Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) regarding Spain’s membership of the EU, and to compare them to the attitudes of the citizens themselves concerning the integration process.
Immigration: World Differences (ARI)
This analysis focuses on some of the existing strategically important differences in global immigration.
On the Problems and Strategies of Fighting Pandemics in Light of the 2005 Avian Flu
This analysis focuses on the importance of implementing a strategy for combating contagious diseases that takes into consideration the patterns of human interaction when trying to fight a pandemic in modern society
Were they Pushed or Did they Jump? The Rise in Sub-Saharan Immigration
Spanish immigration is changing. In the year 2000 60% of the stock of Spanish immigrants was made up of people from other EU countries (40%) and from Magreb countries (20%). In 2005 the share of immigrants from EU and Maghreb countries was down to 35% of the total stock of immigrants (20 % EU countries and 15 % Magreb countries), and this despite the recent EU enlargement. The largest changes are due to the extraordinary upsurge of Latin American immigration, up from 20 to 40 % of the total stock of immigrants in Spain
Spain’s Quest for Regular Immigration (ARI) – Rickard Sandell
The result of the recent extraordinary regularization campaign suggests that Spanish immigration policies have been extremely inefficient in the past four years. The present analysis tries to quantify the magnitude of the failure as well as identifying ways to prevent the problem of irregular immigration from occurring again in the future.
Spain’s Population: The Bigger the Better? Ways of Guessing the Future
On March 16 the European Commission published a Green Paper on confronting demographic change. This analysis contrasts the findings of the Green Paper with the population data produced by Spain’s Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Its main purpose is to analyse the differences between the population forecasts of the two institutions. The result is then used to open a debate about defining an immigration target that is both acceptable to Spanish public opinion and that fulfils the country’s socio-economic immigration needs
Redefining National Boundaries: Changing Relations Between Diasporas and Latin American States (ARI)
Primarily because of greatly increased immigration from Latin America, Latin American States are developing new relationships that emphasise immigrant concerns such as protecting immigrant rights, providing them assistance with a wide range of problems and supporting community-sponsored cultural activities. Governments are also working with their émigrés to mobilise them into lobbies that will act to advance home-country interests and to increase the sums emigrants remit to their home countries