A new MIPEX assessment by Migration Policy Group finds that Brits can have confidence in their country’s decades-long policies on settlement and citizenship. However new UK proposals demonstrate that British politicians critically misunderstand what is multiculturalism in these two Commonwealth nations and how immigrants learn English in other English-speaking countries...The Migration Policy Grouppublished new MIPEX data onAustralia that is directly comparable with previous data on Canada, the United States,Japan, and the 29 European countries in MIPEX III. This report updates data on the United Kingdom based on the scrapping of “Earned Citizenship” and the new pre-entry English test for non-EU spouses. The other MIPEX III data is still current for the UK, Canada and the US. This report also mentions prospective UK data from a MIPEX impact assessment of current proposals on family reunion and “indefinite leave to remain” (long-term/permanent residence).
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Unlike UK, Australia & Canada promote English–and multiculturalism too
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.
