Wednesday, April 19, 2006

A lesson in immigration / The Boston Globe, 19 Apr 2006

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Colin Nickerson
"For decades in Europe, there were no efforts to integrate the newcomers. They were entitled to social benefits, but not citizenship. Their children could attend schools, but little effort was made to give them language skills. Far from a melting pot, Europe in the post-World War II era became the realm of ''parallel societies,' in which native and immigrant populations occupied the same countries but shared little common ground."