Part 1 Conceptualising and analyzing immigration: The impacts of immigration on receiving countries, Philip L. Martin; Immigration and integration in western Europe - a comparative analysis, James Hollifield; Migration and the democratic context of European political institutions, Rey Koslowsky; World society and the future of international migration - a theoretical perspective, Hans-Joachim Hoffman-Nowotny. Part 2 Contemporary immigration and western societies: Europe under migration pressure - some facts on immigration, David A. Coleman; Magnitude, trends and dynamics of immigration into North America the need for a global perspective - the contextual framework, Bimal Ghosh; The political uses of xenophobia in England, France and Germany, Dietrich Thranhardt; Testing tolerance - the impact of non-European migrants on western European cultures, Beverly Springer; Immigration and public finance - the case of the Netherlands, Anton Kuijsten; Ethnic business - ethnic communities and ethnopolitics among Turks in Europe, Mermin Abadan-Unat. Part 3 The challenge of immigration - some policy responses: International migration and security - towards transatlantic convergence? Mark Miller; The European union and the immigration problem - small steps and possible solutions, Chris Bourdouvalis; Europe's search for policy - the harmonization of asylum policy and European integration, Emek Ucaret; Immigration in the twentieth century - which framework for policy responses?, Reinhard Lohrmann; European immigration policies in the twenty-first century? Cornelius Dennis de Jong.