Indicators of integration into Czech society

The first, slightly untraditional monitoring approach is based on scrutinising the legislative framework for integration. This group includes the joint project by the Migration Policy Group (MPG) and the British Council entitled Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX 2007). The project is inspiring from the methodological and the substantive point of view. It compares the legislative framework of integration policy in 25 EU member states and three non-member countries to identify differences in the integration policies applied by the various countries...
As far as the nature and success of  the process by which foreign nationals integrate into the receiving society is  concerned, three basic groups can be distinguished in the sample of 28 countries. The first group consists of countries that have made the most progress in integrating immigrants and are among the highest ranking in all components and overall (above all Sweden, then Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Canada, Italy, Norway and Great Britain). The second group consists of countries that apply a selective  approach in the individual policies: some policies are favourable to immigrants, while in other policies the conditions for integration are merely average or not optimal (e.g. Spain, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Slovenia and others). The Czech Republic also falls within this group. The last group consists of countries whose immigration policies cannot be regarded as “immigrant-friendly” bar some exceptions in certain aspects. This group comprises Denmark, Poland, Greece, Slovakia, Austria and the Baltic states...
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