Integration

Austria: Insufficient integration of migrant workers, says OECD

Date: 29/11/2011 - 18:03

Austria has a higher share of immigrants in the total working-age population (17 %) than many other member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). At the same time, the framework for integration policy is less developed in Austria than in a number of other OECD countries. These are the key findings of a new OECD study on the labour market integration of immigrants in Austria.

Receiving Communities and Their Role in Successful Immigrant Integration

Date: 21/09/2011 - 07:03

Historically, immigrant integration has focused on immigrants—on changing immigrant behavior to facilitate their incorporation into the host society by encouraging language learning or naturalization, for example. Accordingly, service providers working with immigrants typically emphasize programs for English language acquisition, citizenship preparation, or integration of immigrants into the workplace.

New: Naturalisation: A Passport for the Better Integration of Immigrants?

Date: 09/05/2011 - 07:04

This conference proceedings provides the papers presented at the OECD/European Commission joint seminar on Naturalisation and the Socio-Economic Integration of Children held in October 2010 in Brussels.

Listen Up! Media Strategies for Diverse Cities

Date: 04/05/2011 - 07:32

Join Cities of Migration online for a 60-minute webinar (in English) to learn about media diversity and the strategies behind the success of local radio broadcasters in Barcelona and Toronto. Find out how to improve your audience ratings by responding to changing demographics and sharing your city's immigrant experience.

Welcoming America: A Calm Center In The Immigration Debate

Date: 18/04/2011 - 08:01

In 2002, shortly before the Iowa caucuses, billboards began popping up in small towns across the state. The signs, featuring archival photos of German, Scandinavian and Eastern European immigrants -- all of whom had emigrated in numbers to the state in past generations -- read: "Welcome the Immigrant You Once Were."

Immigrant integration in a time of austerity

Date: 10/03/2011 - 09:22

In  this paper Elizabeth Collett finds that, with immigration at the forefront of many austerity debates, some European governments are choosing to cut integration programming and those that held off may be unable to avoid public funding cuts in the future.

Migrants and their descendants - Guide to policies for the well-being of all in pluralist societies

Date: 17/02/2011 - 10:16

Migration to and within Europe has profoundly changed the life and image of the continent. This guide offers theoretical and practical tools for an innovative approach to a key political issue: how, along with our immigrant fellow-citizens, can we build a fair and plural society that ensures the well-being or all?

Integration: a two way process

Date: 27/10/2010 - 13:16

Unless the barriers to integration are reduced in the UK, in another twenty years a new wave of migrants will be accused of having failed to integrate.

 

Vital Signs 2010 Report: Taking the Pulse of Canadian Communities

Date: 05/10/2010 - 14:29

The Community Foundations of Canada has just released its Vital Signs 2010 report with important findings on immigrants' economic situation.

The report is available for downloading here

Legaal & Illegaal: Naar een andere kijk op onze samenleving

Date: 01/10/2010 - 12:09
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Date de début: 02/10/2010 - 23:00
Date de fin: 02/10/2010 - 23:00
Di, 03/10/2010

Vrij verkeer van goederen, handel & kapitaal: een triade die de pijler vormt van ons liberaal systeem. Welke plaats krijgt het vrij verkeer van mensen in dit verhaal? Het recht van een Westerling om de wereld rond te reizen staat in schril contrast met de veelheid aan obstakels die een niet-EU burger tegenkomt op zijn weg om een visum voor Europa te bemachtigen. Wat is er met andere woorden zo liberaal aan ons migratiebeleid? Wij zouden het debat fundamenteel willen voeren en het beginsel van“(open) grenzen” ter discussie willen stellen.

Location
Brussels
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