After the federal reform of 2001, Italian regions have gained greater autonomy in matters of
social policy, including immigrant integration. In this paper, we assess frames of immigrant …

Abstract In the United States, the failure to achieve immigration reform at the national level
has resulted in numerous responses in local communities that have been most impacted by …

Immigration and ethnic minority issues pose major social, political and intellectual
challenges to contemporary Europe. European states and societies are coping with very …

Migrants have organized at all times and in all cities and places. The processes of their
accommodation, however, differ, with local authorities and other state institutions playing an …

Social science research does not have to serve the political purposes of governments or
their critics. It can escape the constraints of ideologically loaded concepts like integration by …

This article reviews the ways in which Britain and the USA classify and analyse the
integration of immigrants and their descendants. While both societies recognize racial …

This chapter presents some preliminary results from a literature survey of municipal policies
toward migrants in some 24 European cities and Tel Aviv. The core of the survey comprises …

One of the principal theoretical and policy questions in the sociology of international
migration is the extent to which post-1965 immigrants are either assimilating in the United …

Janine Dahinden and Bridget Anderson discuss each other's responses to the challenges of
knowledge production in migration studies. Dahinden introduces the concept of the “migrant …

We examine whether, and under which conditions, volunteering contributes to migrant
integration. We identify two main goals of workfare volunteering—empowerment and …