¡Disappearance of social solidarity
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¡Panic of middle classes
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¡Rise of anomy
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¡Ontological insecurity
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¡Lack of Trust
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¡Alienation from society

¡„Post“ society and inability to deal with new situation
¡Post-democratic society
¡Post-civilization society
¡Post-imperalist society
¡Post-optimist society
¡Post-flagelist society
¡Post-secular society
¡Post-heroic society
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¡Risk society (Beck) as a society that lost ability to be reflexive

Integration is a dynamic and structured process in which all members participate in dialogue to
achieve and maintain peaceful social relations.
Integration is focused on the need to move toward a safe, stable and just society by mending
conditions of social disintegration and social exclusion - social fragmentation, exclusion and
polarization; and by expanding and strengthening conditions of social integration - towards
peaceful social relations of coexistence, collaboration and cohesion.

¡„There is no single, generally accepted definition, theory or model of immigrant integration. The
concept continues to be controversial and hotly debated“ (Castles, 2001). ¡„Integration is a
chaotic concept: a word used by many but understood differently by most“ (Robinson, 1998).
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¡Terminology: Integration? Or incorporation? Accommodation? Inclusion? Culturalization?
Naturalization?
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¡Precise terminology might help, but we should rather tackle 2 issues:
¡1. „Never-ending story…“ Integration is never-ending process, linear type of thinking is
misleading. ¡2. „This is the end of the world as we know it“ Integration as we know it from 20th
century lost its meaning due to globalization processes and multilayer identities of people. Life
„on the road“ and transnational perspective call for paradigmal shift in our understanding of
integration.

¡Integration policies and generally speaking attempts to integrate and accommodate migrants are
failing in most of countries of EU27 due to structural reasons.
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¡In fact, they will be remain unsuccessful without changes of a nation state character,
constitutional changes, and precise definition of integration aims.
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¡But very few changes occurred in a sphere of de-ethnization of public policies. Discrepancy
between multi-identities post-modern era and 19th century type of nation state in EU27 is visible
and destructive for integration attempts.
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¡In spite of adopting all possible legal norms on protection of minorities (both autochtonous and
new), equal status of minorities has not been secured so far in most of countries of the EU27.

¡Integration attempts fails also due to inconsistency of „goals of integration“ and rising demands
on the side of dominant cultures.
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¡Migrants are not offered what they might have expected within liberal democratic regime that
fosters equality (What you see is not what you get…)
whopper1 whopper2

¡Integration in both social and civic terms rests on the concept of equal  opportunities for all.
In socio-economic terms, migrants must have equal opportunities to lead just as dignified,
independent and active lives as the rest of the population.
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¡Equality. Is it enough?
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¡Integration is successful when migrants become part of the core in all aspects of life - social,
societal, economic, cultural, and symbolic ones. Integration cannot be successful in situation when
migrants have problems to penetrate into the core of society.

¡1. Equal status (citizenship policies, equal rights)
¡2. De-etnization of public sphere;
¡3. Shift toward political nation;
¡4. Culturally neutral state;
¡5. De-racialization of interactions between citizens.