Report on Integration Policies in the UK

Building a British Model of Integration in an Era of Immigration: Policy Lessons for Government By Shamit Saggar and Will Somerville

Despite experiencing large-scale immigration flows and settlement over the past half century, the United Kingdom has not developed a formal integration program. Few public policies have specifically sought to advance immigrant integration, and the political debates surrounding immigrant integration have often been fraught and destabilizing, reflecting deep-seated ambivalence in British society about immigrants and immigration. The authors offer a menu of policy options and actions the government should consider to achieve a well-thought-out approach.

Note how the British approach to immigrant integration resembles that of the United States.

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