Integration Policies: Portugal Country Report

For the last six years, a comprehensive integration policy approach and the implementation of good practices have placed Portugal at the top of the ranking of countries with best integration policies, just behind Sweden (Huddleston et al. 2011). According to the results of the MIPEX 2011 (Huddleston et al. 2011), Portuguese integration policy has known major positive developments in the following areas: access to citizenship; being considered the country with the most inclusive nationality law of the 31 countries analysed by MIPEX; access to the labour market and labour market mobility targeting immigrants’ specific employment conditions; major improvements to securing long-term residence (Law 23/2007, 04/07) and family reunion requisites; more inclusive migrant education policies; political opportunities and more effective anti-discrimination laws (Malheiros and Horta 2008). 
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