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Do Obligatory Civic Integration Courses for Immigrants in Western Europe further Integration? | Zuwanderung, Flucht und Asyl: Aktuelle Themen | bpb.de

Do Obligatory Civic Integration Courses for Immigrants in Western Europe further Integration?

In recent years, there has been a growing chorus of calls for more coherent and efficient immigrant integration policies. In response to these calls, a variety of European states have introduced obligatory civic integration courses and tests for newcomers. This policy brief identifies common features of civic integration policies in place in the Netherlands, France and Germany, and contrasts them with corresponding policies recently put in place in the United Kingdom. It concludes with a discussion of how effective civic integration courses are in achieving their stated goals. (Published 10/2007)

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Introduction

In recent years, there has been a growing chorus of calls for more coherent and efficient immigrant integration policies. One reflection of these calls was the Council of the European Union's 2004…

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The Netherlands

Civic integration programmes in their current form originated in the Netherlands, in response to the shortcomings of the previous multicultural "minorities policy" in integrating immigrants into key…

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France

If, in the Netherlands, civic integration was a clear departure from its previous "ethnic minorities' policy", civic integration in France is more of a continuation of its old assimilationist…

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Germany

Germany first practiced something akin to civic integration toward its ethnic Aussiedler, immigrants from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, who, due to their German ancestry, are considered…

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United Kingdom

The British adoption of civic integration is an interesting contrast case to the continental European pattern. First, whereas the continental European integration policies outlined above emerged as a…

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Conclusions

How successful are the new civic integration policies in achieving their goals? The answer is: no one really knows. A first, and most obvious, reason for this is the newness of the programmes.

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References and further reading

Here you can find a list of references as well as further reading for the policy brief "Do Obligatory Civic Integration Courses for Immigrants in Western Europe further Integration?" by Christian…