Managing Integration of Immigrant Youth in the United States, Germany, and Poland

The aim of the dissertation is to examine ways of managing
immigrant integration and integration policies in advanced
industrial societies, with a special focus on labor market
integration of young immigrants in the two neighboring EU
countries: Germany and Poland and in two US neighboring states:
Arizona and California. The analyses of theoretical research
framework and empirical study provide answers to the following main
research questions: 1) Which factors influence the development of
local labor market integration initiatives for young immigrants
into the labor market 2) How these factors enable the receiving
society to tap into potential of young immigrants 3) Whether the
exchange of integration policy research and practical experience of
integration management in the United States and the European Union
is useful and transferable. The study can provide incentives to
create a transatlantic bridge between researchers and integration
practitioners. The analysis of integration management of immigrant
youth and recommendations for further research and practical work
should help to raise awareness of these integration problems which
have not been recognized so far either by national governments or
local municipalities.