This report examines the nature, the limits and potential of the principle of integration as a two-way process of mutual accommodation between migrants and the receiving societies. It assesses the extent to which this key principle, which lays at the foundation of the EU framework on...

In the new millennium there has been a shift away from multiculturalism and the politics of difference towards integration and a gradual ‘thickening’ of political belonging. Governments frequently comment on the alleged weaknesses of the multicultural model and the advantages of thicker,...