CIEN Good Practices In Citizenship And Coexistence In European Neighbourhoods

A number of Member States are still struggling to provide affordable housing and to address the negative consequences of segregation and deprived urban areas, where immigrants tend to be over-represented.

The experience of European Union States with a long history as immigration-receiving countries shows that neighbourhoods with structural deficiencies are usually the first destination of this population. This trend has also been observed in those southern European countries that have only much more recently begun to attract non-EU immigrant population, and it is highly likely that the States that have recently joined the European Union will become new receivers of immigrants from non-EU countries.

Over the last few years, many European cities have developed town-planning intervention experiences accompanied by actions to strengthen social cohesion, to promote a more solid coexistence and to prevent the appearance of racist and xenophobic incidents in neighbourhoods with structural problems, where most of the immigrant population is concentrated.

CIEN's goal is to generate knowledge through the exchange of experiences about policies for the promotion of citizenship and coexistence, developed in European neighbourhoods with a high concentration of non-EU immigrants, in order to transfer this knowledge to European cities.

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