Abstract:

The future of a refugee depends on the articulated integration policy of the host country. Refugees’ future prospect is glaring in a country that has comprehensible refugees’ policy compared to that has not. This article adopts integration theory and longitudinal quantitative approach to comparatively analyse the policy trends from arrival to citizenship acquisition of refugees in Germany and Sweden. The research critically evaluate the refugees’ integration and citizenship policies of the two countries based on assimilationist and differential-exclusionary approaches to justify the level of coherency of the models towards providing the refugees with social and cultural environment, education and language skills, integration into the labour market; and grant of citizenship. The article test the hypothesis that a country with tangible education policy for refugees is more likely to integrate and grant them citizenship, the higher the level of community participation of refugees; the higher the chance of citizenship acquisition, and the higher the level of discrimination in the host community; the lower the chance of refugees integration. The article also responds to question that: how effective is the refugees’ integration and citizenship acquisition policies in the two countries? This research found out that Sweden has developed and applied more vibrant refugees’ integration and citizenship acquisition policies by adopting favourable approaches compared to German’s series of adverse approaches.

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