The Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Ireland

The Council of Europe has defined integration as a 'two-way process [whereby] immigrants change society at the same time as they integrate into it'. The World Development summit in 1995 prescribes the goal of integration as 'a society for all' in which people have the right and the ability to participate in decisions affecting their lives. The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) developed these statements into a more comprehensive definition, with three key components. Integration is defined by ECRE as: