A refugee family welcomed in Glasgow in 2016.
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A new set of ‘Indicators of Integration’ have been launched by the UK government.
Police in Camden, after a young man of Somali origin was stabbed in February 2018.
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Somali community leaders should help to foster links with their traditional culture.
The Walk Together marches across Australia in 2015 showed how welcoming regional communities are to refugees.
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New research shows that refugees in regional Queensland have found it very easy to make friends and feel safe and comfortable raising children in their communities.
New York City is one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities, with 37 percent of its population foreign-born.
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A sociologist interviewed hundreds of immigrants in New York, Barcelona and Paris. Here’s what they say those cities get right — and do wrong — when integrating foreign-born residents.
Refugee Journeys is a board game designed to help front-line workers and educators confront their bias towards refugees.
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Many Canadians have volunteered to help newcomers adjust to society. This board game was developed to help these volunteers understand what it feels like to enter a new country and build a new life.
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Britons living in France are obsessed with how well integrated they are.
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The UK’s black Caribbean community is traditionally more inclined towards Labour. They’re even less likely to switch now.
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It would diminsh the value of Britain’s multilingualism, promote a monolingual ideology and discriminate against speakers of other languages.
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Walking, gardening and cycling can all help relieve anxiety and help asylum seekers become a part of the local community.
Alf Dubs with Ishmael, a young Syrian refugee, at an event to mark a year since the Calais ‘jungle’ camp was shut.
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Young people need help to overcome discrimination, stigmatisation and isolation.
Views on British values, from British Muslims.
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A series of films made by Muslims shows how much confusion remains about the term.
EU citizens gather in Westminster on September 13 to lobby for their post-Brexit rights.
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Policies that are hard at the border but soft on the inside help migrants to integrate in a new country.
Living with your heritage.
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It can be a painful experience to be rejected by your heritage culture.
Fortress Europe: Macdeonian soldiers patrol the Greek border.
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New research questions the scale of support for tougher border security across Europe.
The Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education to desegregate U.S. public schools sparked protests across the country. This one took place in Louisville, Kentucky, 1956.
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A mostly white community in Alabama is being allowed to secede from its mostly black school district. Parents are claiming school quality is at stake, but is it really just segregation in disguise?
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Refugees who are granted leave to remain in the UK could now be sent back to the country they fled, after five years in limbo.
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Integration reaps mental health benefits.
Starting a new school can often feel overwhelming.
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Child refugees talk about their experience of transitioning into a new high school in Australia.
Getting asylum seekers into jobs is the number one concern for Sweden.
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Sweden is not suffering a crime wave because of immigrants, but there are real obstacles to overcome in getting refugees into employement.
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We must know people as they would like to be known, not as some dominant power has decided we shall know them.