Integration of immigrants: a current view of four cases from Europe

The latest surge of inflows has made integration of immigrants a top agenda item in Europe. While the issue has long been a topic of interest for many EU members, as the central component of their national jurisdictions for the most part, some have recently been pressing to come up with a comprehensive common European strategy on that score. To illustrate, following her earlier remarks on the role of immigrants’ integration into the host societies, German Chancellor Merkel has this year stressed repeatedly that a decent common immigration and asylum policy in Europe is now more significant than ever (Ash 2015).

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