Integration gaps persist despite immigrants' value assimilation: evidence from the European Social Survey.

ABSTRACT: In Europe, although integration of the immigrant population is acknowledged as a multidimensional challenge, the precise dimensions of integration have varied considerably throughout the past decades and between nations. Nowadays, most states have adopted 'civic integration' programmes to some extent, thereby placing weight on the acquisition of 'national moral values', implying that successful integration requires the assimilation of certain core values and implementing various strategies to instil these in immigrants. However, critics of civic integration have called into question whether the adoption of a host society's normative values facilitates immigrants' own integration. To provide evidence on this matter, we leverage data from the European Social Survey, collected between 2002 an

SUBMITTER: Suarez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11997842 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature