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How to strike a balance between mainstream and targeted efforts for immigrant integration in Europe?

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Liz Collett and Milica Petrovic from the Migration Policy Institute give a talk
The UK debate has been obsessed with numbers, limits and caps since 2010, and arguably a generation. This misses the real story of immigration: how immigrants integrate into society. When do migrants cease to be migrants? The integration story is a complex one but its importance cannot be understated: whether or not groups are successfully included will ultimately shape immigration policy. MPI Europe has been interested in what governments can do to encourage such a process. In the UK, policy responsibility for integration is diffused through a range of national and local government agencies, often with unclear or overlapping mandates. In contrast, countries in mainland Europe, such as the Netherlands and Denmark, tend to resource specialised actors within government that design and manage integration policies in isolation from mainstream policy, with clear targets and tailored interventions. As policy-makers in these countries grapple with the need to infuse integration priorities into mainstream policy portfolios across government, what can be learned from the British experience, and vice versa?

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Liz Collett
Milica Petrovic
Keywords
migration
immigration
politics
multiculturalism
integration
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 14/07/2014
Duration: 00:26:13

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