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In secularized European societies, religion is making a comeback as a marker of identity, entailing a conflict of values in politics as well as in the courts. In order to guarantee the openness of social space, the universality of human...

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...

During the last decade Europe has experienced a new dramatic increase in migration flows. Populations migrating to European countries may fall into the following general categories: (a) third country citizens, (b) European non-member-country citizens, (c) European member-country citizens. Main causes...

Lebanon’s refugee crisis has highlighted the need for much closer coordination among the various organisations and local authorities involved in the response. This paper analyses existing collaboration mechanisms in relation to the Syrian crisis in Lebanon and provides a series...

This publication highlights the content and exchanges of the first peer learning meet-ing in the “Mediterranean City-to-City Migration” project (MC2CM) on the role of municipal administrations in social cohesion and intercultural and inter-religious dialogue. This meeting was hosted by 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...

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...

Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this paper discusses the micropolitics of diversification in Varissuo, a suburb in south-western Finland, from the point of view of three resident groups: the ‘Finns’, the ‘diasporans’ and the ‘second generation’ migrant youth. The specific...

Representatives from the central international institutions mandated for intercultural and inter-religious dialogue and prominent personalities, including religious leaders, and leading regional works/programmes involved in interfaith action and cultural diplomacy met on 22/23 July at the Union for the Mediterranean headquarters...

High-level policy insight debate on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on Sustainable Development Goals and Covid-19 recovery On July 2nd 2020, the Anna Lindh Foundation and Friends of Europe co-organised an online High-level policy insight to discuss the role of EU-MENA multilateral and...