coordinating immigrant integration in germany mainstreaming at the federal and local levels By Petra Bendel MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE EUROPE Coordinating immigrant integration in Germany Mainstreaming at the federal and local levels By Petra Bendel August 2014 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author is particularly grateful for the assistance of Sabine Klotz and Christine Scharf in research and useful critiques. She would also like to thank all her interview partners in the different ministeries and agencies at the federal and state levels as well as local administrations for their frankness and for providing useful material on ‘best practices’. This report, part of a research project supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is one of four country reports on mainstreaming: Denmark, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. MPI Europe thanks key partners in this research project, Peter Scholten from Erasmus University and Ben Gidley from Compas, Oxford University. © 2014 Migration Policy Institute Europe. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from MPI Europe. A full-text PDF of this document is available for free download from www.mpieurope.org. Information for reproducing excerpts from this report can be found at www.migrationpolicy.org/about/copyright-policy. Inquiries can also be directed to
[email protected]. Suggested citation: Bendel, Petra. 2014. Coordinating immigrant integration in Germany: Mainstreaming at the federal and local levels. Brussels: Migration Policy Institute Europe. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................1 I. INTRODUCTION: THE CONTEXT OF IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION IN GERMANY ...........................................2 II.