A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON IMMIGRANTS’ INTEGRATION POLICIES IN ROMANIA AND SWEDEN

• Main Authors: Alexandru KIS, Alin KIS
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies 2017-04-01
• Series: Journal of Defense Resources Management
• Subjects: immigration; integration; mobility; discrimination; multiculturalism; Romania
• Online Access: http://journal.dresmara.ro/issues/volume8_issue1/03_Alexandru_KIS.pdf

The immigration crisis in Europe has brought an intensive debate over EU nations’ shared responsibility toward integrating foreigners fleeing insecurity. In this context, Eastern EU countries have shown a lot of anxiety and reluctance to opening their societies to immigrants. The nature of this fear, beside the emerging threat of terrorism, is strongly linked to prejudices, and maybe to a chronic lack of know-how on integrating people without historical (or any other) ties with the host nation. This paper offers a comparative study between integration policies for immigrants in Sweden – a top ranking country in the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) 2015 – and Romania, with the aim to determine areas to improve the latter’s approach toward this issue.