The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Migration and Citizenship
Scholarly Publications
A low-cost information nudge increases citizenship application rates among low-income immigrants
April 2019
We show that an information nudge increased the rate of American citizenship applications among low-income immigrants eligible for a federal fee waiver.
The long-term impact of employment bans on the economic integration of refugees
September 2018
Many European countries impose employment bans that prevent asylum seekers from entering the local labor market for a certain waiting period upon arrival.
Determinants of refugee naturalization in the United States
September 2018
The United States operates the world’s largest refugee resettlement program.
Other Publications
Europeans Would Accept More Refugees—If the Asylum System Were Fair
July 2017
Kirk Bansak, Jens Hainmueller and Dominik Hangartner’s study of the European refugee crisis shows broad support across Europe for the proportional allocation of asylum seekers.
The Wrong Way to Stop Terrorism
February 2017
On January 27, true to his campaign promise to suspend Muslim immigration, U.S.
Europe's Refugee Worries
June 2016
As the UN estimates the total number of displaced persons globally at 65 million people, TEC affiliate Roland Hsu argues that European countries in particular must think of what the long term flow...
News
New Stanford research explores immigrants’ decision to return to Europe during historical Age of Mass Migration
September 2017
Today’s conversation about immigration and the role of immigrants in America is not so different from the conversations that took place more than 100 years ago, when European immigrants settled in...
The fallout from Brexit
November 2016
Christophe Crombez, Senior Research Scholar at The Europe Center, and Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at SIEPR, explored the short-term and long-term consequences of Brexit and...
The Europe Center February 2016 Newsletter
February 2016
Event Recap: Human Rights and Refugees in Europe Pictured: Kenneth Scheve, Jenny Martinez, Emily Arnold-Fernàndez, and James Cavallaro.Amidst the reimposition of border controls in some Schengen...
Events
Populism + Immigration
May 29, 2018
This Workshop examines the political economy of immigration and integration, the role of partisanship, and how immigration is perceived as both diversity and an economic and cultural threat.
**Cancelled** President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: The Future of Europe
November 17, 2016
**This event has been cancelled.**This event is co-sponsored by: The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, The Europe Center, The Hoover Institution, Stanford Global Studies, The...
**Cancelled** Brexit, Trump and the politics of fear: is populism here to stay?
July 12, 2016
**This event has been cancelled** With the backdrop of the Brexit vote in the UK, Nick Clegg will explore the factors behind the rise of the politics of identity, populism and nationalism in the UK...
Projects
Immigration and Integration Project
Two premises motivate the “Immigration and Integration” project that is able to get off the ground with seed money from the FSI Policy Implementation Lab.
English
Multimedia
Immigration and Integration: Research
November 2015
In this video, Jens Hainmueller, Co-Director of the Immigration and Integration Policy Lab, and Duncan Lawrence, Executive Director of the Immigration and Integration Policy Lab, explain some of the challenges created by current immigration...
Immigration and Integration: Introduction
November 2015
Immigration policy has been a very controversial and highly debated topic for decades, both in the United States and in Europe.