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Mentoring: What can support projects achieve that schools cannot?
Mentoring by immigrant-background students improves grades and self-esteem but stays marginal without stable funding and institutional embedding in EU systems.
Developing School Capacity for Diversity
School quality affects migrant children more than higher-status peers, making professional capacity for diversity the central lever for closing the achievement gap in European education systems.
Language Support for Youth with a Migrant Background: Policies that effectively promote inclusion
Language barriers block academic progress for migrant children, but no single EU model exists, making context-sensitive national strategies essential.
Aiming Higher: Policies to get immigrants into middle-skilled work in Europe
European integration policies have prioritized getting immigrants into work over career progression. Without reform, persistent labor market gaps will widen.
Decentralising Immigrant Integration: Denmark's mainstreaming initiatives in employment, education, and social affairs
Denmark's shift toward mainstreaming immigrant integration is more advanced and deliberate at the city level than nationally, with Aarhus and Copenhagen leading the way.
Coordinating Immigrant Integration in Germany: Mainstreaming at the federal and local levels
Germany's integration policy has improved but remains fragmented across government levels, with weak coordination limiting its coherence.
Mainstreaming Immigrant Integration Policy in France: Education, employment, and social cohesion initiatives
France's ethnic statistics ban and geographic poverty focus make it nearly impossible to assess whether mainstream programs are reaching or benefiting immigrant youth.
The EU’s Strategic Guidelines on Migration: Uncontentious consensus, but missed opportunity
The EU Council's 2014 migration guidelines won easy consensus, but sidestep solidarity disputes, offering little direction to address mounting humanitarian crises.
Advancing Outcomes for All Minorities: Experiences of mainstreaming immigrant integration policy in the United Kingdom
UK integration policy's minority-equality framing enables local innovation but risks marginalising integration and masking persistent disadvantages for specific groups.
An EU Commissioner for Migration? The devil is in the details
As the European Union weighs creation of a dedicated migration commissioner post, success will necessarily turn on mandate clarity and accountability structures.
