..., or a combination of these. Utilizing survey data, this essay attempts to identify the key factors explaining the entrepreneurial initiatives of immigrants in Greece. It reviews the literature of immigrant entrepreneurship and gives an overview of immigration and the profile of immigrants in the country. The essay...

... of seaborne migrants landing on the island has been rather modest, given the country's small size and very high population density, illegal immigration has become one of Malta's top policy priorities, nationally as well as on the EU level, and it has been calling for more support and burden-sharing mechanisms...

...Tom Tancredo Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Tom Tancredo is a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Colorado and serves on the International Relations Committee. Immigration, Citizenship, and National Security: The Silent Invasion...

...Larry N. Gerston Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Larry N. Gerston is professor of political science at San Jose State University. Immigration in California: Confl ict, Confl uence, and Controversy Larry N. Gerston Some words spark...

...Alexandre Afonso Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Alexandre Afonso is a teaching and research assistant at the Institute of Political and International Studies, University of Lausanne. Immigration and Its Impacts in Switzerland Alexandre Afonso...

...Omar G. Encarnación Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Omar G. Encarnación is associate professor of politics at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The Politics of Immigration: Why Spain Is Different Omar G. Encarnación...

...Benjamin Kline Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Benjamin Kline is professor of history at De Amza College, Cupertino,California. The Changing Social Environment of Modern Ireland: Immigration and the Issues of Politics, Economics, and Security...

...Robert S. Leiken Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Robert S. Leiken is director of the Immigration and National Security Program at the Nixon Center and author of Bearers of Global Jihad?Immigration and National Security after 11 September . Europe’s Immigration Problem, and Ours...

...: Illegal Immigration into South Africa Hussein Solomon The number of international migrants worldwide, including refugees, asylum seekers, and clandestine migrants, is estimated at 120 million. In addition, it is believed that a further two million join this fi gure each...

...Tina Mavrikos-Adamou There remains a void between the legal framework of immigration in Greece and its implementation. The essay explores this theme, first by providing an overview of Greek legislative acts and immigration laws from 1991 to 2015. This discussion is then placed within the Greek...

...Sotiris G. Vandoros This essay systematically explores the role the immigration issue played in the electoral and overall political power structure of right-wing extremism in Greece as expressed by Golden Dawn. It employs a political-opportunity structure along with a discursive-opportunity...

...Erin Kruger; Marlene Mulder; Bojan Korenic Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Erin Kruger, Marlene Mulder, and Bojan Korenic are research assistants at the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration and graduate students in the Department of Sociology...

...Constantine A. Pagedas. © 2018 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2018 Sarris Louis G. : Sunrise, Sunset: An Immigrant’s American Odyssey . Lexington, KY : Self-published , 2015 . 640 pages. ISBN: 1-505611-63-9 . $22.10 (paperback). ...

...' anxieties brought about by economic crisis, illegal immigration issues, high unemployment rates, increases in crime, anti-austerity public sentiments, and the uncertainty over the country's future to become, in just a few years, a formidable political party in Greece. George Bistis is an award-winning...

... uncontrolled immigration across the Mediterranean to a newly assertive Russia that expresses its ambitions at sea. Europe has so far not formulated a comprehensive approach to the maritime domain and has responded to challenges in a reactionary fashion. Europe must now, however, devise strategies...

.... Pioneering academic work on refugees and assimilation limns the essential choices policy makers have: (1) throw open the gates to Europe and hope new Muslims citizens will eventually assimilate, (2) exclude Muslim immigrants and try to subordinate Islamic beliefs to European norms for those already in Europe...

... of years later, another five hundred thousand Albanian speakers had immigrated to Greece after 1985. The data show that Greeks and Albanians have a long-term kinship, but this is obscured by linguistic and religious differences. Understanding this common past may strengthen contemporary political...

... not surprising. Instead, its decision was intricately linked — albeit perhaps unconsciously — to the Greek public’s overall hostil- ity toward migrants and immigration and to its strong preference for homo- geneity and segregation. However, as we will argue, Greek attitudes toward migrants do vary. Greeks...

... centuries. For most of its history since achieving independence from the Ottoman Empire in the late 1820s, the country has been a source of migrant workers. It is only since the early 1990s that modern Greece became the recipient of immigration. This change from a country of emigration to a country...

... Dominique Maillard “France is all the French,” once said General de Gaulle. Some among those French are Muslims. Most of them are immigrants or the French-born second- generation children of immigrants. For the most part they live among tradi- tional French working families with whom...