Article thnicities Ethnicities Revisiting the European Union framework on immigrant integration: The European 2014, Vol. 14(4) 556-576 © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468796814528692 etn.sagepub.com ®SAGE integration forum as a technology of agency Alberto Arribas Lozano, Nayra Garcia-Gonzalez, Luca Sebastiani and Aurora Alvarez Veinguer Department of Social Anthropology, University of Granada, Spain Sandra Gil Araujo Scientific and Technical Research National Council, Argentina Abstract In the last 15 years, a European Framework on Immigrant Integration has been devel oped through soft law tools, aiming to create a common understanding of the concept and promoting the coordination, funding, and exchange of best practices among states, local administrations, and nongovernmental actors. In this article, we first contextualize the emergence of immigrant integration policies at the European Union level. We then examine the principal European Union documents on this issue, paying special attention to the link between integration and immigrant participation. Finally, based on an empir ical study, we analyze, from the perspective of governmentality, the European Integration Forum, an apparatus considered the “ last word” in immigrant integration policies at the European Union level. Keywords European Integration Forum, governmentality, immigrant participation, technologies of agency, Common Basic Principles for Immigrant Integration Policy, Common Framework for the Integration of non-European Union nationals Corresponding author: Alberto Arribas Lozano, Department of Social Anthropology, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja s/n Granada 18071, Spain. Email: aarribas@ugr.es