3.5 — Reception policies and public debate

• Understand how receiving societies frame migration politically.

• Know the main models of integration policy: assimilationist, multicultural, civic.

• Be able to evaluate claims made in public debate about migration. How receiving societies frame migration. How a country talks about migration shapes what policies it adopts. Some countries frame migration primarily as an economic phenomenon (Canada, Australia, Singapore); they set up points-based systems that admit migrants based on skills and economic contribution. Others frame migration primarily around protection (Germany, Sweden historically); they emphasize refugee admission. Still others frame migratio