While data are routinely collected on ethnic minorities, significantly less is available on migrants in the UK. The EU Integration and Refugee Funds have supported local initiatives to promote aspects of integration such as employability skills and civic participation where mainstream government policy did not include them among the target groups. There is little provision to engage migrants’ representatives in the policy making process at national or local level, in contrast to formal arrangements in some EU states to do so (MIPEX 2011)...
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UK Migration Observatory: policy primer on integration
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
