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MULTINATIONAL AND
MULTICULTURAL IDENTITY
Assets and tensions, immigration and integration
policies
OVERVIEW, PART I
European Identity
Concepts
of identity
European Values and the EU
as a family of nations
Constitutional patriotism
Europe as a space of encounters
OVERVIEW, PART II
history
Questions
PART I: IDENTITY
EUROPEAN IDENTITY
elastic
Linguistically varied: 23 languages
Religiously diverse, Cf. work on the Consititutional
treaty, 2004
Historically not clear (more clashes than harmony)
No coherent view on the European quality of the
neighbors
FEELING EUROPEAN
Barometer 1999
Feeling
Barometer 2004
86
ACTIVITY 1
IDENTITY = VALUES?
Non-discrimination
Gender
equality
Physical and psychological integrity
Respect for cultural diversity and identities
ACTIVITY 2
MAS
IND
UAI
Flanders
39/40
47/50
France
27/29
47/50
13/14
17/22
61
72
4/6
53
Germany
63/65
11/13
18
43
G.B.
63/65
11/13
66
Spain
45/46
51/53
30
17/22
Italy
51
33
Netherlands
11
SHARED FEARS?
ACTIVITY 3
INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
ACTIVITY 4
CONCLUSION PART I:
PRECONDITIONS FOR THE
EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEAN
Politics: the strengthening of democratic
IDENTITY:
ACTIVITY 5
DIFFICULT OUTSET
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
ACTIVITY 6
ORIGIN OF MIGRANTS
colonial links,
previous areas of labour recruitment,
ease of entry from neighbouring countries.
ACTIVITY 7
OTHER PROBLEMS
POLICY
Tampere 1999
A
POLICY
POLICY
ACTIVITY 8
SOME DATA
APPROACHES TO INTEGRATION
ACTIVITY 9
GOOD PRACTICES
Portugal: SOS Migrant
Mentoring of seasonal workers in UK and
Catalonia
Intercultural sensitivity training for public
service workers
Expanding mediation services (languages, view
on health care, religious dialogue..)
EXAMPLE OF INTEGRATION
PROGRAM: BELGIUM
Except:
EU
Primary program
Basic
Secondary program:
Actively
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
QUESTIONS?
FURTHER READING
www.euractiv.com : identity debates
www.nouvelle-europe.eu : construction of Europe
www.eumap.org : a diverse compilation of articles
and opinion pieces on the most topical and
important migration issues in Europe.
www.gcim.org: Reports by the Global
Commission on International Migration
www.oecd.org
.