Integration

Integration in receiving countries is significant to the nexus of sensible migration and development policies; migration and development work best when there is genuine integration of migrants. Integration does not mean the assimilation or the suppression and disappearance of a culture, but rather both a fundamental non-discrimination and affirmative programming that can take the form of training in language, skills and civic values, job supports, and education for children. Integration requires not just rights, acknowledged and respected by States, but obligations, acknowledged and respected by migrants. Reasonable, not oppressive or discriminatory obligations including especially the obligation to learn the host State’s language and to accept its fundamental values consistent with the universal common good are ways that migrants and refugees are able to better integrate into their new home.

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