The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship (ICMEC) announces the publication of “Sharing Integration Experiences: Innovative Community Practices on Two Continents”, edited by Aristide Zolberg and Allison Clarkin. This volume, funded by a generous grant from the German Marshall Fund, is the culmination of a project designed to foster transatlantic dialogue on immigrant integration policies and practices. By focusing on community-level activities to integrate immigrants into their host communities, particularly those that include participation of the immigrants themselves, the publication sheds much-needed light on the day-to-day negotiations at the ground level over the practical aspects of integration. Moreover, it highlights positive steps that are being taken to further local integration of immigrants in Europe and the U.S.

The contents of the volume include:

* Sharing Integration Experiences: Introduction and Summaries
 Aristide Zolberg and Alison Clarkin
* Paris: Direct Action for Immigrant Housing
 Sophie Maurer
* Women Mediators of the 20th District of Paris
 Sophie Maurer
* Establishing a Turkish Mosque in Amsterdam
 Karen Kraal
* The Amsterdam Mentoring Project
 Karen Kraal
* After 9/11: Perspective from the New York Arab-American Family Support Center
 Chandana Mathur
* The New York Greengrocer Campaign: Immigrant Organizing in Ethnic Niches
 Victoria Malkin
* Multiethnic Policing in Berlin
 Robin Schneider
* Berlin’s Workshop of Cultures: An Experiment in Multicultural Integration
Robin Schneider

Click here for the PDF version of this publication. ICMEC is currently translating this volume into French and German. The translated volumes will be available by the end of May, 2004.

Click here to see some of the organizations that the German Marshall Project is working with.

As part of our ongoing project with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship completed a comprehensive bibliobraphy of literature pertaining to trends in European immigration and the integration of immigrant populations into European society.