Immigration Policies in Europe: Impact on Crime -- A Case Study of Germany

This thesis examines the effects of European immigration policies on crime and society, with a focus on the past and present security challenges of post-World War II and post-Cold War shifts of peoples and demographics, which have changed the face of Europe. Chapter 1 reviews the significance of the issue in the context of the historical and economic developments in which post-war immigration began. Two broad debates are reviewed immigration as a threat to Europe, and immigration as a boon to Europe and its people. Chapter 2 discusses the effects of immigrant crime on the security and prosperity of Germany, and the failures of German policies and the German government to assimilate the immigrants fully into German society. Chapter 3 analyzes immigrant-related economic crime and its effects on German economic prosperity. Chapter 4 addresses the effects of immigration on German nationalism, citizenship, laws and law enforcement, political policies, and terrorism. The final chapter offers a summary of German government and multilateral actions that have attempted to reduce immigrant-related crime political party views of immigrant-related crime European institutions and their efforts to address crime and immigration i.e., NATO, United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Interpol, Europol German use of international European organizations to increase security and decrease immigrant-related crime, including the European Union, European Police College, EUROJUST, and Europol German international coordination efforts and recommendations for future coordination of immigration policies to enhance security in Europe through the cooperation of governments and European security institutions.