Integration of ethnic minorities and migrants

The European Union accommodates presently people from different kind of ethnic backgrounds. To mention only a few: the Roma, labour migrants from third countries (i.e. Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia) and more recently from South- East Europe, and migrants and refugees from Asia, Latin America and Africa. This implies that the EU increasingly has to deal with the integration of migrants and ethnic minorities, to both safeguard their socio-economic position and participation in society and (from a more local perspective) to preserve a stable and diverse society. Hence, the integration of ethnic minorities and migrants has been a key issue on European, national and local political agendas.