IMMIGRANT CITIZENS

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EYHow immigrants experience integration

in 15 European cities

PARTNERS

Belgium King Baudouin Foundation (KBF)Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)FranceFondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Science Po)France Terre d’AsileGermanyResearch Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR, Germany)HungaryMTAKI (MTA Etnikai-nemzeti Kisebbségkutató Intézet)Menedék Hungarian Association for Migrants

Managing PartnersKing Baudouin Foundation (KBF)Migration Policy Group (MPG) Co-funders:European CommissionKing Baudouin FoundationFundação Calouste Gulbenkian Oak Foundation

ItalyFondazione Ismu – Initiatives and Studies on MultiethnicityPortugalHigh Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI)SpainUniversity of LeicesterCentro de Investigaciones Sociológicas Fundacion CIDOB

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What’s your mother tongue?

What other languages do you speak well?

Did you have any problems that discouraged you from learning the country’s language(s)?

Have you taken a language or integration course in the country?

How has this course helped you personally?

DID YOU HAVE A PROBLEM LEARNING THE LANGUAGE?

Learning the language was more of a problem for non-native speakers in Portuguese, Italian and French cities than in German cities or Madrid.

Around 60 to 70% of immigrants in Portuguese, Italian and French cities mention one or more reasons undermining language learning, in contrast with 24 to 30% in German cities and Madrid.

LANGUAGESKey Findings

DID YOU HAVE A PROBLEM LEARNING THE LANGUAGE?

Immigrants generally speak more languages than the average person in their country of residence.

WHAT WERE THE MAJOR PROBLEMS LEARNING THE LANGUAGE?

What are the biggest obstacles for non-native speakers to learn the language of the country in which they live? Is it a lack of information, the costs, low-quality courses, personal motivation or time?

In most cities, no one reason predominated. More than one in three non-native speakers found that they did not have time to study in Budapest, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish cities.

Half said they did not have time to study in Italian and Portuguese cities.

LANGUAGESKey Findings

WHAT WERE THE MAJOR PROBLEMS LEARNING THE LANGUAGE?

For immigrants – like for most people – time is the major problem for learning a new language.

Getting information on learning opportunities may be more difficult for immigrants than general public.

HAVE YOU STARTED OR COMPLETED AN INTEGRATION OR LANGUAGE COURSE?

For immigrants – like for most people in the country – time is the main problem for learning a new language.

The comparison suggests that time to study was a much greater problem for non-native speakers in Italian and Portuguese cities.

Getting information on learning opportunities is more of a problem for non-native speakers in the Belgian, French, Hungarian, Italian, and Portuguese cities.

LANGUAGESKey Findings

HAVE YOU STARTED OR COMPLETED AN INTEGRATION OR LANGUAGE COURSE?

Wide range of immigrants participated in language or integration courses.

HAS THE LANGUAGE OR INTEGRATION COURSEHELPED YOU?

Participants in most courses were overwhelmingly positive about their effect on language learning and other integration outcomes.

Courses helped most participants not only learn the basics of the language, but also specific vocabulary that they needed for their jobs or skills.

LANGUAGESKey Findings

HAVE YOU STARTED OR COMPLETED AN INTEGRATION OR LANGUAGE COURSE?

Participants highly value courses for learning language and often for socio-economic integration.

IMMIGRANTCITIZENS

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