In Luxembourg, immigrants' integration is everyone's business... So what?

Immigrants and refugees are among the most vulnerable categories of the population. Their economic, social, political and even cultural integration has become a major topic of public debate. It is thus not surprising that governments have designed and implemented policies to facilitate immigrants’ reception and integration, to promote social cohesion and to ensure equal opportunities. Encouraged by the EU, European countries have frequently revised their legislative framework, giving a more assimilationist orientation to their integration policy. Most reforms emphasize the fundamental norms and values of the host society that all citizens must share rather than the right to be different. In practice, countries have followed this philosophy in heterogeneous ways. (…)