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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

Graph 4 Levels of integration of immigrants in the EU

Source: Elaborated from MIPEX II raw data: overall scores (2010) in http://www.mipex.eu/download
[accessed 18.3.2014].

There is a group of countries generally more favourable towards integration,
which include Scandinavia (especially Sweden, due to its refugee policy),
Belgium and the Netherlands and most of the high immigration countries from
southern Europe (Spain, Italy and Portugal), excluding Greece. A second group
comprises most central and eastern Europe countries, Ireland, Greece and the
United Kingdom. Portugal and Sweden rated the highest among the favourable
countries, while those less favourable to integration, are Latvia, Lithuania and
Slovakia, according to the MIPEX index.
The same index suggests that, up to 2010, there was a positive progress or
at least a stabilisation in most countries regarding the level of integration of
migrants (the exceptions were Ireland, Malta and Norway). Nevertheless, several
restrictive/selective dynamics have been identified in the period 2009-13 (OECD,
2012 a; IOM, 2010; EMN, 2013):

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