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25 Jan 2017

This statistics-laden report lays waste to the common perception that trying to integrate migrants is a huge, sometimes even insurmountable challenge to societies in the EU. The data on both first and second generation migrants collected by Eurostat and analyzed in the report clearly show that this image is flat out wrong. In fact, if educational attainment and employment are important indicators of integration, second generation migrants are better integrated into European societies than native born individuals with native backgrounds. Read on for the numbers.

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Author Elspeth Guild, Sergio Carrera, Ngo Chun Luk
Series CEPS Commentaries
Publisher Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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