This dissertation is a comparative analysis of policies and programs supporting newcomers integration, based on case studies of Canada and Italy. Because immigrants mainly settle in large urban centres, the scope of the research concentrates on the cities of Toronto in Ontario and Rome in Lazio. The study uses qualitativey methods andraws from literature in the fields of comparative and international education, and comparative policy analysis as well as from migration, multiculturalism and citizenship theories. The comparative analysis involved a juxtaposition of the policy and institutional...