Immigration is no doubt one of the most urgent political issues all over the world. Academics and politicians have been discussing the question of how states should cope with immigrants; but 96 per cent of immigrants end up in cities, and in Europe and the USA a large majority of the immigrants settles in seven or eight cities only. So how should cities integrate immigrants? Should cities be allowed to design their autonomous integration policies? Could they issue visas to immigrants? Should immigrants be granted voting rights in local elections before naturalization? And how do cities think about these issues? What can we learn from cities which are thought to be successful in integrating and assimilating immigrants? Is there a model of integration within the city which is morally superior to other models? How can an immigrant’s well-being through having a sense of place be maintained? All these questions are discussed in this book both empirically and normatively. The book is based on hundreds of in-depth discussions of these matters with city dwellers in several cities in Europe and the USA. It shifts the discourse on immigration from ‘thinking like a state’ to ‘thinking like a city’.