A theoretical framework that has been used frequently when understanding immigrants’ adaptation to the new society is Berry’s (1997) conceptual framework of immigrants’ acculturation to the host society and it includes four strategies: assimilation - when individuals do not wish...
Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Zapata-Barrero's research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity. He is director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and the Master on Migration...
Communications Officer with WHO. In the past Marrouch worked for BBC Arabic, Reuters Video News, along her work for CBS, and Al Jazeera. She graduated from New York University with an M.A. in Journalism through a Fulbright scholarship and worked...
Senior Lecturer in international politics at City University London and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, leading the religion and public policy programme at the Von Huegel Institute. Dr. Silverstri’s interdisciplinary research and publications concern Muslim identity politics and...
Films about refugees have been embraced by accented cinema. Indeed, exilic filmmakers continue to test the boundaries of cinema, and specifically its strong bonds with nation and land. But not all exiles are refugees. This article offers that for Arab...
Director of TASC, an independent think tank based in Dublin, focusing on addressing inequality and sustaining democracy. Affiliated Lecturer and Associate Researcher with the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge, she previously worked as the Deputy Director of the...
Social work in Europe is facing numerous challenges in terms of promoting the participation of migrants and their descendants in super-diverse societies. This study investigates collaboration between social workers and intercultural mediators based on international debate and fieldwork in Italy...
Former Senior Research Executive at Ipsos Social Research Institute (Brussels Office). For the third wave of the Anna Lindh opinion poll on Intercultural Trends and Social Change in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, Pauwels was involved in all phases of the project...
Migration between the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) and the member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries can be studied in terms of push factors and attraction factors. To analyze these factors, a gravity model extended immigration...
EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy. Füle previously has held several positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, serving as First Secretary of Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the UN, the Ministry...