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New Data on Migration Policies of 32 Countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean

The findings of the GIGA research project “Every Immigrant Is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Shape the Paths to Integration (IMISEM)” are presented in 32 country reports on the website www.imisem.info.   


  • As part of the three-year GIGA research project “Every Immigrant Is an Emigrant,” a multinational team of researchers analysed migration policies in countries both of origin and of destination in Asia, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The project team focused on the regulations that determine whether and how migrants can enter and settle. For the first time ever, both immigration and emigration are considered together as the two sides making up migration policy. A multinational team of researchers collected detailed information on hundreds of regulations for 32 political entities in Asia, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The research project was funded by the Leibniz Association

    The findings of the project are presented in 32 country reports, which are available online at: www.imisem.info.

    Every Immigrant Is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Shape the Paths to Integration (IMISEM)
    © IMISEM
    Every Immigrant Is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Shape the Paths to Integration (IMISEM)
    © IMISEM


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    So Young Chang

    So Young Chang

    Former Doctoral Researcher



    Research Project | 01/05/2017 - 01/04/2020

    Every Immigrant Is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Shape the Paths to Integration (IMISEM)

    Every immigrant to a country is the emigrant of another. The migration policies in both countries of origin and countries of destination define the migrants' options to enter, settle and belong to them. Using a comparative area studies angle - with cases from Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean - we develop a broadened perspective on migration policy landscapes, migrant selectivity, policy coherence and policy dilemmas.
    Leibniz Association, 2017-2020

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