Tag: #Migration & Integration

Discrimination forms an explanation for the disadvantaged situation of many new Belgians, but it is far from the only one. Eliminating the subordination does not end, but begins with fighting discrimination..

Think Tank Itinera mobilises for a better integration of migrants on the labour market

Anna Platonova of the OIM proposes a panoramic overview of the issue of labour market access for migrant workers in the European Union.

Jasper Dag Tjaden presents an international comparison of education outcomes and policies for immigrants

Professor Dirk Jacobs (ULB) presents the situation of migrants and their children in the Belgian education system.

More than twenty years the issue of integration has been part of the preoccupations of our country, since the famous report of the royal commissariat, the predecessor of the current Centrum for Equity of Chances. This analysis report on the reality of questions on integration, discriminations and broader living together in our society. We need inevitably to recognize that enormous challenges re…

All immigration countries are facing huge challenges and need to find a solution for the growing diversification of the population. The quest for the ideal model of living together is one of the big current issues for which every political party needs to give an answer in its program. In this study Rachida Azdouz is giving a description of the two most spread models, followed by a short analysi…

The second part of the twentieth century Belgium has become an immigration nation. After the Glorious Thirty and the famous agreements to let foreign workers come to Belgium, immigration in our country has more and more evolved towards the channels of family reunification and asylum, together with a growing impact of the intra-European mobility. This analysis presents the reality behind the sta…

Itinera launched a first series of studies and debates on the pretext of “Mobilization for integration”. Laurent Hanseeuw (fellow Itinera Institute) concludes in his report that a quarter of the Belgian population has at least one parent born abroad. In the past ten years Belgium witnessed a net migration of about 500.000 people, or 4,5% of the population…

Marc De Vos traces the trajectory of immigration into Belgium and concludes that we are quickly colouring, as well as greying. Immigration nation Belgium will have to develop a broad integration strategy and will have big needs in reception, training, housing, schooling, child care, and the labour market.