EFMS undertakes study on the issues of migration and the integration of refugees in Germany and in Europe. The centre undertakes research, gathers documentation, provides a consultancy service and publishes research. This website aims to raise awareness of the issues of refugee dispersal and concentration and make the work accessible to the widest possible audience of policy-makers, practitioners, refugee organisations and refugees. The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies is an interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Amsterdam which has existed since 1994. Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien Migration, integration and intercultural problems are crucial issues in the world of today and are concerns for a wide variety of academic disciplines and research institutions.
Interdisciplinary cooperation is, therefore, of utmost importance.
Against this background, IMIS examines historical and contemporary demographic, geographic, social, economic, political and legislative, psychological and educational issues of migration and integration from an interdisciplinary perspective. To develop new conceptual approaches to the study of migration. The network aims to analyse the legislation of EU member states and legislation of the EU in the areas of migration and asylum. The objective is to furnish universities, policy-makers, practitioners and NGOs with a deeper insight on the relevant, from a European perspective. The results of our analysis will be addressed to the European Institutions to help them in the preparation of legislation based on the new provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam.