Home 3.1. Brussels, the second most cosmopolitan city in the world? 3.2. Immigration to Brussels from the independence of Belgium until the 1960s 3.3. Immigration to Brussels since the 1970s 3.4. Migration and territorial and social dynamics in Brussels 3.5. The foreign-born population and the Brussels labour market 3.6. The political participation of Brussels citizens of foreign origin 3.7. Is Brussels monocultural, bicultural or multicultural? 3.8. Language diversity in Brussels 3.9. Conclusion

Brussels, the second most cosmopolitan city in the world?

Activity 1: Brussels, the second most cosmopolitan city in the world?

In the previous section, you discovered that Brussels is not only the capital of several administrative entities, but also an urban space characterised by different uses of its territory. It is a very socially diverse, international, cosmopolitan and multicultural city!

In this section, we will examine why the International Organization for Migration ranked Brussels in 2015 as the second most cosmopolitan city in the world just after Dubai. Before embarking on this exciting journey, we invite you to watch a video in which linguist Laura Calabrese and sociologist Rudi Janssens summarise the objectives of this section:

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