Transatlantic Council on Migration: Building a British Model of integration in an era of immigration

In précis, the various strands of immigrant integration indicate a policy shift away from multiculturalism but not a regression to the acculturation and assimilationist frameworks publicly adopted by some European countries in recent years. Much as French republicanism has been a label, the British racerelations model has also been the poster child for certain proponents or opponents of multiculturalism.Quantitative comparative indices of integration policy and citizenship laws (such as MIPEX or the Citizenship Observatory) tend to report the United Kingdom as neither favorable nor unfavorable to immigrant minorities and place it in the middle of the European spectrum, though they also highlight that the United Kingdom has recently implemented less-generous policies than in the past...
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