In the last decade, the study of migration policy has increasingly made use of synthetic measures, such as indicators and indexes, to compare and evaluate states’ responses to international migration. But major research gaps exist in the assessment of integration policies targeting beneficiaries of international protection (BIPs). Comprehensive, comparative data on the subject are also lacking. How can we measure and compare BIPs integration policies? And how can we evaluate their effectiveness in meeting BIPs’ integration needs? To answer these questions, this article uses the National Integration Evaluation Mechanism (NIEM), which provides a set of 173 indicators to evaluate BIP integration systems in EU member states. Following a review of the literature in the field, this paper describes NIEM’s methodology and then presents the key findings in the 2019 data for 14 EU countries. The conclusions reflect on the main contributions and limitations of the study.

Refugees with disabilities represent an invisible group of individuals who are forced to leave their countries in particularly disadvantaged situations. Therefore, they are in need of special protection and attention, especially at the European level because of the ongoing dramatic humanitarian emergency. This article seeks to examine to what extent the un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities can be applied to refugees. Moreover, the paper looks at the Directives of the Common European Asylum System in order to examine whether the eu legal backdrop takes into account the peculiar condition of refugees with disabilities.

A key question in comparative law is why different legal systems provide different legal solutions for the same problem. To answer this question, we use novel comparative evidence on how the conflict between the dispossessed original owner and the bona fide purchaser of a stolen good is resolved in different countries. This is the most primitive manifestation of a fundamental legal choice: the balance between the protection of the owner's property rights and the enhancement of the buyer's reliance on contracts. We test four prominent theories: functional equivalence, legal origins, political economics, and cultural economics. We find that a culture of self-reliance is the key determinant of comparative variation in this area of law.

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