In a response to the Green Paper Earning the Right to Stay – A New Points Based Test for Citizenship, the Runnymede Trust provides concrete evidence that the Government’s proposals will have a negative effect on integration and cohesion. A commissioned assessment by the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) reveals that the proposals would make language and integration conditions for British citizenship one of the most onerous and complicated in Europe. In a recent BBC interview, Home Office minister Phil Woolas reverted to international comparison to justify the stringent proposals set out in Earning the Right to Stay: "This is what America does, it is what France does, it's what other countries do and we think we should do the same." ... READ MORE.
MIPEX assessment finds points-based citizenship would be most onerous and complicated system in Europe
MIPEX Team
Coordination Team
MIPEX 2015 team is fromed by the members of CIDOB and MPG, the leading organizations of the “Integration policies: Who benefits? The development and use of indicators in integration debates” project.
