Integrazione degli immigrati e rispetto della diversità culturale nel diritto dell’Unione europea

Abstract

In the numerous EU law writings dealing with the integration of immigrants, the doctrine has focused on the principle that this must fundamentally tend to foster the gradual assimilation of immigrants into the social and economic fabric of the host country. In particular, the adoption of discriminatory policies against immigrants should be avoided as a matter of principle. Contrary to this mainstream view, according to which EU law ultimately considers cultural diversity as a barrier to be eliminated, the present study aims at pointing out that, at a European level, cultural diversity is a value that, albeit with certain particular limitations, has to be preserved and consolidated in order to promote a constructive dialogue between immigrants and citizens of the host country.