Final Project Proposal

For the final project I want to write a research paper. I've been going through IC's resources about migration to see if there are any particular subjects that I can more likely find resources or not.
I found a subject that I am interested about and I would very much like your feedback.
Proposed Subject: Migration policy-making in selected countries (not too many because I want to be as specific as possible) of Europe.
I want to do research about how immigrant integration policies are made, implemented and what factors are important during the process. Also I would like to examine how the immigrants are affected by the law and include examples. I also want to point to the similarities and differences between countries.
What do you think?

Media discovery

It is not always bad. Check this out!
"Not In Our School" movement, an extension of "Not In Our Town" movement, helps people across USA fight hate, intolerance and stereotypes of immigrants. On the website people can find videos that share stories or ways to resist bullying. This is incredible, beautiful! You can take courses in some universities or even start a campaign at your school. So many countries need this.
Schools are very important. Young kids can be very cruel to the ones that are different and this can damage the psychology of the kids beyond repair.

Here is a video of the stories of new immigrants in Newcomers High School in Long Island (this school is specializes in teaching new immigrants) with another private middle school and how teachers help them:

The link to the website: http://www.niot.org/nios

Generalization, identity, omission of facts

After reading Moran's article "Challenging the Republic: Interpreting the 2005 Urban Violence in French Suburbs" one can only come to the depressing conclusion once again that media can easily manipulate certain events and people with no other resources to see the reality may fall victim to this very easily.
Two sentences that moved me:
- "'Urban violence' become trivialized to the point of becoming almost a daily element of the various media.": The desensitization is fatal. Some critical issues come up in the media so much that over time for the people that are not immediately affected by them (for example the urbanites of France) start to ignore the importance of these subjects.
- "A specific identity is imposed upon the inhabitants of the suburbs - the identity of a population apart that constitutes a willing obstacle to the positive development of French society as a whole. This in turn reinforces social prejudices regarding the suburbs and its inhabitants, feeding into the divide that ensures the perpetuation of the suburbs as zones of exclusion and relegation": We always come back to the importance of forced identity, how it changes the view of others around someone about him/her is one thing but it is also important to consider the effects of this imposed identity whether good or bad on that someone. If no-one listens to you, your point of view about the happenings that involves you, would you still try to talk or get upset and slowly become the feared person they want you to be? How do the children turn out to be as adults that get the message of being unwanted, being a nuisance, an obstacle in the way of greater things, as they grow up in the suburbs of France?