The Failed Integration Process

The failure of integration lies in what many see but few dare to speak about openly: the cultural clashes in everyday school life and workplaces, adult education counselors encountering participants with attitudes that conflict with basic human rights, and young people struggling with a clash of different cultural values. Should we open halal restaurants and prayer rooms in schools? Can we accept preventing girls from participating in swimming lessons or going on school trips? The book points to a number of integration challenges, but it also charts a course for the future. The author shows how schools can be strengthened as centers of values, how childcare services should be equipped to address cultural relativism, and how political apathy should be replaced with clarity. He also presents the results of international research, mostly from Scandinavia, which confirms that effective integration measures exist—if only we would dare to use them.