Immigrant settlement and integration services and the role of nonprofit service providers

Introduction The primary purpose of this paper is to offer a relevant comparative context for considering settlement and integration service delivery and the role of nonprofits in working with government as well as the communities they serve in the promotion of immigrant well-being. [...] Drawing from a broad literature review and cross-national survey of settlement and integration this paper seeks to set a contextual and theme oriented assessment of the immigrant settlement landscape and the role of nonprofit agencies in the countries under review. [...] For example, in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands prominent declarations by their governments of the so-called failure of 'multiculturalism' and the need to rethink immigration and integration policies have been made, signaling important changes in the direction of immigration policy (Boyes, 2010; Collet, 2011b, 19; on the crisis of multiculturalism also see: Lentin & Titley, 2011, 1 [...] As far back as the end of the 1800s in the pre-welfare state period, for example, the nonprofit settlement house movement arose first in Britain and spread quickly to the United States and Canada as well as to continental Europe and even Japan to address the issue of poverty and urban integration of migrating populations (immigrant and rural populations, including in the US black migration to nort [...] Neoliberalism and the Movement to Market-based Settlement Service Provision – The Construction of the One Dimensional Immigrant As a policy orientation, Nihei (2010) notes that neoliberalism is based on belief in the value of the free movement and accumulation of capital, minimal state intervention in the private sphere of markets and individual rights, and a restructuring of the public domain wit