Managing Integration: The European Union’s Responsibilities Towards Immigrants
Managing immigration and integration is one of the most vital and challenging tasks that the European Union is facing today. Since the Union's enlargement to include 25 members, the issue has become even more pressing.
This book analyzes approaches, strategies, and best practices from EU Member States that could contribute to a sustainable integration policy. It thus provides European, national, regional, and local decisionmakers with instruments they can draw on in establishing a European framework for integration.
Introduction: The Integration Challenge: Living Together in a Europe of Diversity
Rita Süssmuth and Werner Weidenfeld
Part I: The Conceptual and Political Approach Towards Integration: From an International to a European Code of Conduct
The Challenge of Integration: A Global Perspective, Bimal Ghosh
Integration: Perception and Reality, Michael Bommes and Holger Kolb
A German Perspective, Dieter Oberndörfer
An Anglo-American Perspective, Anja Rudiger
A Central European Perspective, Krystyna Iglicka and Marek Okólski
A Mediterranean Perspective, Anna Terrón i Cusi
A Scandinavian Perspective, Ulf Hedetoft
A French Perspective, Catherine de Wenden
Part II: Status Quo of Integration in an Enlarged European Union: Models and Indicators for Successful Integration
Draft Synthesis Report on Policies Concerning the Integration of Immigrants, Helene Urth
Synthesis Report on National Integration Policies, Helene Urth
Part III: Building a Framework for a Common Policy Approach
Elements for an EU Framework for Integration Policies for Immigrants, Rinus Penninx
Identification of a Framework for Common Principles, Guidelines, and Objectives for Integration, Rinus Penninx
Integration as an Integral Part of the European Societal Model, Dietrich Thränhardt
Part IV: A Concept for a Competitive Integration Policy
A Concept for a Competitive Integration Policy, The Bertelsmann Foundation
Benchmarking in Immigrant Integration, Han Entzinger and Renske Biezeveld
The Open Method of Coordination as a Political Strategy in the Field of Immigrant Integration Policy, Bernd Shulte
Civic Citizenship: A New Concept for the New Europe, Rainer Bauböck
Part V: Best Practices
Introduction
Belgium, Thierry Timmermans
England, Audrey Adams and Haven Lutaaya
France, Catherine de Wenden
Germany, Katrin Uhl
Italy, Giulia Henry
The Netherlands, Ingrid Sijlbing
Poland, Krystyna Iglicka and Marek Okólski
Scotland, Sally Daghlian
Spain, Maria Helena Bedoya
Sweden, Cecilia England
