Integration Policies – Trends, Problems and Challenges: An Integrated Report of 9 Country Cases

This report provides a snapshot for some of the primary findings, trends and challenges with regard to immigrant integration that have been studied in nine country cases, based on research conducted within the framework of the Horizon2020 RESPOND project. These countries are Sweden, Germany, Italy, Greece, Austria, Poland, the UK, Turkey and Iraq. All nine country reports study integration in five thematic domains (labour market, education, housing, psychosocial health and citizenship) by looking at policies (macro level), practices (meso) and experiences of refugees and asylum seekers (micro level). This integrated report relies on data discussed in the macro sections of these country reports, and systematically analyses the same thematic fields in each country by looking at:

a) Legal and institutional frameworks for each thematic field (labour market, education, housing, psychosocial health, and citizenship);

b) The main trends in these domains, and

c) Problems and challenges that refugees face (based on the interview material at micro and meso levels).

Each section ends with an informative summative table. Overall, the integrated report provides a rich overview of country cases, and thus, can be read either as a whole or as separate sections.