EMILIE Final Report
The EMILIE research project explored migration-related diversity issues associated with multicultural education, the labour market and political participation in nine EU member states.
Pluralism and cultural diversity are among Europe’s most valuable assets. In the past couple of decades, the EU’s heterogeneity has increased further and at very fast paces. Opportunities and challenges posed by migration-related diversity have become increasingly apparent.
The EU member states studied in this project (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Spain and the UK) have undertaken different approaches in integrating groups with migration backgrounds into their education systems, labour markets and their political processes.
Cultural and religious diversity in European classrooms remains a challenge, even if intercultural education is not a new issue in the European education policy agenda. Though EU directives on racial equality and employment have been in place for nearly a decade, discrimination against migrants and minorities in the labour market is still widespread. Lastly, while some progress has been made toward multicultural citizenship, most migrant and minority groups remain politically voiceless.
The EMILIE Final Report presents the overall findings of the project. It includes concise summaries of all national case studies as well as the theoretical work undertaken in this project; it provides references and links to project reports, project policy briefs, and other project working papers, presentations and forthcoming publications by all the EMILIE Consortium members.
The EMILIE project ran from July 2006 to September 2009 and was funded by DG RTD, 6th Framework Programme.
