Policy instruments from Austria, Canada, France, Germany and Italy
Comprehensive and coordinated action across levels of government responsible for different
policy domains (labour, education, housing and welfare/health) as well as across local
actors is crucial to migrant integration. To respond to this need for co-ordination,
different policy instruments are mobilised by countries. This paper presents six of
them, to illustrate three categories of practices supporting migrant integration through
better multi-level co-ordination:
Reinforcing co-ordination (financial, human, technical) between levels of governments
and private actors such as businesses or non-governmental organisations to foster
migrant integration and retention: The Canadian Atlantic Immigration Pilot (AIP) and
the French Territorial Contracts for the Reception and Integration of Refugees (CTAIR);
Resolving information and evaluation asymmetries: Vienna (Austria) Integration and
Diversity Monitor and the German Network IQ;
Illustrating the positive externalities of territorial development and investment
programmes on migrant integration and social cohesion: The Italian Inner Areas Strategy
and the French Urban Policy.