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Conference report: Successes and challenges of local integration policy

Introduction

The local level has become increasingly relevant for the formulation and implementation of integration policies. In all major European cities, policymakers have to contend with diverse populations, an issue which can often lead to certain social, economical and political tensions. Research, moreover, has shown how immigrants and their descendents often feel more connected to the city they live in, rather than the country in which they dwell. Examining and evaluating this local sense of attachment may be a useful means to render integration policies more effective and, ultimately, more successful.

Description

This report describes an activity that is gaining in importance and one that is valued highly in IMISCOE, namely to bring researchers and policymakers together and to engage the intended public more actively in research. The report presents the main and most relevant items discussed at the policy workshop ‘Successes and Challenges of Local Integration Policy’, which took place on 7 December 2006 at the Werkstatt der Kulturen in Berlin. The workshop’s primary objective was to unite researchers and policymakers from different cities to discuss pressing urban integration issues. In a very open way the participants reported on the challenges they are facing and on the failures and successes of their policies and programmes.

Background information

This title is published within the IMISCOE publication programme as part of the Working Papers. These Working Papers are the products of ongoing work by IMISCOE members that are not (yet) ready for publication within the IMISCOE-AUP Book series. They may range from State of the Art Reports (SoAR) on worldwide research within a particular domain to more specific products of ongoing work.

EU involvement

The IMISCOE Working Papers are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme (1 April 2004- 31 March 2010).

Contact info

IMISCOE Network of Excellence
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.imiscoe.org
Karen Kraal (Communication Officer), tel. + 31 (0)20 525 3659

Publication date

//2007

Project finished

//2007

Researcher

Floris Vermeulen, Rosanne Stotijn and Karl Lemberg

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Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Social inclusion & integration