Include Refugees and their Families in EU Integration Policies

On the occasion of the 2008 Ministerial Conference on Integration organised by the French Presidency on 3/4 November in Vichy, ECRE calls for including refugees and their families in mainstream EU integration policies.

EU asylum policy-making has been focusing on deterring asylum seekers, while paying little attention to the barriers these policies create for the integration of those who eventually become new European citizens. Once recognised as refugees or beneficiaries of subsidiary forms of protection, they are excluded from mainstream EU integration policies for other third country nationals such as the European Integration Fund, the Long Term Residence Directive and the forthcoming European Integration Forum.

ECRE Recommendations to the 2008 Ministerial Conference on Integration (91.82 KB)