Darrell Jackson and Alessia Passarelli’s report on migration in Europe was prepared for the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe and set out to inform as wide an audience as possible about the realities of migration in contemporary Europe.
Migration studies is particularly complex and the facts have to compete with the rhetoric and misinformation that often predominates in popular debate. This report, though now three years old, remains an important resource for empirical migration studies setting out statistics for 47 European countries. It also includes introductory chapters which describe the nature and patterns of contemporary migration in Europe, theological approaches to the subject, and highlights some examples of how churches are responding to migration.
‘Older and Wiser’ a 16 page report on Germany, published in this week’s Economist, is also available as a free pdf download on their website at 
