The Six Country Immigrant Integration Comparative Survey (SCIICS) is a large-scale telephone survey conducted in 2008. The aim was to collect comparable data across European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria and Sweden) with different integration policies as well as...

In the context of a collaborative project on the meaning and legacy of a cultural construction commonly called ‘the West,' and specifically its key Anglo-American dimension, this paper provides a comparative examination of two key bilateral relationships at the core of that construction:...