Integration Futures will examine the challenges to cohesion and integration among societies, especially with regards to education, citizenship, economic and workplace inequality and policies for inclusiveness.

• It is the third in a series of successful conferences, following Immigration Futures (2004) and Multicultural Futures (2006)
• Program of international speakers
• Conveniently timed for delegates attending the 13th International Metropolis conference

The conference will be held at the Monash University centre, in the elegant 18th century Palazzo Vaj in the historic centre of Prato in northern Tuscany, Italy.

This intensive two day conference will focus strongly on the future. Integration discussions are changing markedly from what they were even ten years ago. Whereas formerly the discussion revolved around settlement and employment, more and more integration is being seen as preserving social cohesion, mainstream national identity and culture, and mainstream core values. This ambitious social engineering is a different sort of integration project and, in many ways, controversial.

Integration Futures is organised and sponsored by the International Metropolis Project (Canada), the Australian Multicultural Foundation and Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements (Australia), the same team behind the 12th International Metropolis conference in Melbourne.