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Publications on Integration

The Integration Needs of Mobile EU Citizens: Impediments and Opportunities

Cover page of MPI Europe Publication Integration Needs Mobile EU Citizens
Pub date: 
Mar 2013
This discussion paper investigates the broad range of integration needs that exist in Europe and the role different actors, including employers, can play in meeting them.
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Main theme:
Integration
Keywords:
free movement, integration programme, mobile EU citizen

Family Reunification: a Barrier or Facilitator of Integration? A Comparative Study

Cover page of the study
Pub date: 
Mar 2013
This study, coordinated by the Immigrant Council of Ireland and supported by the European Integration Fund, answers the question to what extent certain family reunification policies hinder or promote reunification with TCN family members and also their integration
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Main theme:
Integration, Family reunification
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
family reunification right, income requirement, obstacle to integration

Comparative study on the best practices for the integration of resettled refugees in the EU Member States

logo EP comparative study integration
Pub date: 
Jan 2013
This study examines the question of the integration of resettled refugees in EU Member States, by analysing the EU policy framework for resettlement and integration, national practices, and how they could be enhanced based on global and EU guidelines and recommendations.
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Main theme:
Integration, International Protection
Keywords:
resettlement

Do the European integration and refugee funds contribute effectively to the integration of TCNs?

Cover page of the report
Pub date: 
Dec 2012
The Court’s audit examined whether the EIF and ERF of the SOLID programme contribute effectively to the integration of third-country nationals. The conclusions and recommendations are listed in the report.
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Main theme:
Integration
Keywords:
European Integration Fund, European Refugee Fund

Developments in Legal Migration and Mobility in 2011 (EMN Inform)

First page of EMN Inform Legal Migration Mobility 2011
Pub date: 
Nov 2012
This EMN Inform summarises the main developments in 2011 in legal migration and mobility. Topics addressed include statistics, promoting legal migration channels, economic, family Reunification and integration.
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Main theme:
Economic migration, Integration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality
Publication type:
EMN inform
Keywords:
legal migration, mobility

Immigrants on the Flemish labour market (VDAB)

Pub date: 
May 2012
Every six months the Flemish Employment Service (VDAB) reports about various disadvantaged groups.
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Main theme:
Economic migration, Integration
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
labour market, unemployment

Integration: what’s in a name? Going beyond multiculturalism for immigration nation Belgium

Pub date: 
May 2012
Itinera Institute published a number of papers on its website on the occassion of its conference "Integration: what’s in a name? Going beyond multiculturalism for immigration nation Belgium".
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Main theme:
Integration, Data & Statistics
Keywords:
citizenship, diversity

'Immigrant Citizens Survey'. An opinion poll among migrants.

Pub date: 
May 2012
The Immigrant Citizens Survey (ICS), piloted by the King Baudouin Foundation and the Migration Policy Group is the first transnational survey that is directly relevant for policy-makers in many areas of integration at local, national and European level.
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Main theme:
Integration
Keywords:
immigrant Citizen Survey

The Relationship between Immigration and Nativism in Europe and North America

Cover Page of the MPI report
Pub date: 
May 2012
Is migration a major factor behind the rise of the radical right? Do higher levels of immigration automatically correlate to more votes for radical-right parties? This report focuses on the effects of migration on political extremism in North America, Western Europe and central and Eastern Europe
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Main theme:
Integration, Migration
Keywords:
Nationalism, xenophobia

Integrating refugee and asylum seeking children in the educational systems of EU member states

cover report
Pub date: 
Apr 2012
The Center for the study of democracy presents a handbook within the project “Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States: Evaluation and Promotion of Current Best Practices” – INTEGRACE.
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Main theme:
Integration, Reception, Study § Training
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
education