Ruud Koopmans on Immigration and Integration in Europe

So we have an extremely selective uh regime that helps many people who don't need it, that among those who do need help privileges those uh who are healthy, young and relatively speaking wealthy, and who leaves many other people alone. And now the good fight. with Yasha Monk. How has migration changed the United States and how has it changed Western Europe? Why is it that immigrant groups to the United States still seem to integrate a lot better than they do in Western Europe?

What is the best predictor as to whether an immigrant will succeed in integrating into the host society? Is it the level of qualification they bring with them? Is it the structure of the labor market and the welfare state in the country to which they arrive or is it something to do with the culture of the place in which they were raised? And finally, how should we think about the current system of asylum?

Is it a moral a state of affairs that should be defended, or is it actually in many ways unjust a lottery, which doesn't always reward those who are most in need? To talk about all these subjects, I have invited one of the leading scholars of migration in Europe and around the world, Ruth Koplanz. is a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, and he also is the director of a research unit on migration and integration at the Berlin Social Science Center, the WZB. In this conversation we also talk about how

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