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In recent years there has been growing concern that the social legitimacy of west-European welfare states is threatened by immigration. The underlying argument is that immigration yields ethnic, racial, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, which is said to impact negati…

In 2015, the number of displaced persons worldwide reached 65.5 million, the highest levels recorded in history; in the years since, that number has only grown. While millions around the world are forcibly displaced, only a minute fraction experience permanent resettlement outsi…

Between 2015 and 2016, Germany was the site of some of the most significant migration events in the 21st century, receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees from across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Syrians made up a significant proportion of these refugees. Curiously, they…