Expert Comment: If multiculturalism has failed, then what about integration?

Published on September 5, 2025

Jörg Friedrichs, Associate Professor of Politics in Oxford Department of International Development, explores how debates over multiculturalism in Britain and Europe reveal that integration, rather than diversity itself, is the pressing challenge.
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