Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy

Rainer Münz is Head of Research & Knowledge Center (Erste Group), Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC, and Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). He studied at Vienna University, where he earned his PhD in 1978. In 1979 he joined the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Until 1992 he was director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science. Between 1992 and 2003 he was head of the Department of Demography at Humboldt University, Berlin. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Bamberg (1986), University of California at Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1997-98), Frankfurt (1988), Klagenfurt (1996, 1998), Vienna (2001-02) and Zurich (1992). He also was Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics of Finance, Technical University Vienna (2001-2002). Since 2010 he teaches at the University of St. Gallen. His main fields of research are European Migration, ethnic and linguistic minority issues, and the impact of demographic change on social policy.

"The appearance of this series... is welcomed as a useful antidote to the usually ill-informed debate in both Western Europe and the U.S.... The chapters are well researched, informative and clearly written, and provide a substantial background and stimulating ideas for policy-makers to consider... The authors are to be congratulated on such a comprehensive analysis, and for proposing a more humane and tolerant approach to this issue which has so often lacking." - Labor Focus on Eastern Europe

• Chapter 1. The Impact of German Policy on Refugee Flows from Former YugoslaviaH. J. AxtChapter 2. The Impact of U.S. Policy on Migration from Mexico and the CaribbeanC. MitchellChapter 3. Migration in the Russian Federation since the mid 1950sC.DornisChapter 4. German Policies towards Ethnic German MinoritiesV. RongeChapter 5. German Policies towards Russiaand other Successor StatesB. Dietz and K SegbersChapter 6. The New Labor Migration as an Instrument of Foreign PolicyE. HönekoppChapter 7. Bad Neighbors, Bad Neighborhood: an Inquiry into the Causes of Refugee Flows, 1969-1992M. WeinerChapter 8. Economic Instruments to Affect Countries of OriginP. MartinChapter 9. Can Military Intervention Limit Refugee Flows?B.PosenConclusion: Policies to Reduce Refugee Flows and Pressures for EmigrationM. Weiner and R. MünzNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex