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Civic integration policies: a new model for the integration of migrants in Europe?
Angela Paparusso

##manager.scheduler.building##: Edificio 19
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Date: 2015-02-06 09:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Last modified: 2015-01-15

Abstract


The academic debate has recently shed light on the civic integration policies, which many European countries have adopted, despite of their national models of immigrant integration. The civic integration refers to policies which oblige migrants to learn the language, the civic values and the culture of the country of settlement. From this perspective, the full knowledge of the host society’s culture is considered to be a sign of a successful process of integration. Regardless of their capacity to promote migrants' inclusion and social cohesion in the host society, civic integration policies show the existence of an intended or unintended convergence of European countries towards what one may call a new model of integration. For this reason, the aim of this work is to review the most recent integration tools used by the main European countries of immigration – distinguishing between old and new receiving countries – in order to verify if this convergence is truly occurring in Europe or if, on the contrary, these policies represent only a trend shared by national models of integration policies, which, nevertheless, remain dominant.