Didier Ruedin & Gianni D'Amato: Social Cohesion Challenges in Europe

Within a decade, multiculturalism as a concept has fallen out of fashion, and a public consensus appears to have emerged that multiculturalism as a policy to integrate immigrants has failed. Such accounts tend to ignore the different kinds of multiculturalism, but the word itself has almost entirely disappeared from official use. In its stead, there is an increasingly tough rhetoric. It is unclear whether significant changes in policies followed, largely because it seems less clear what other policies would lead to the desired outcome of integration. For example, in the MIPEX indicators of integration policies, no clear trend towards stricter policies can be determined...
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