Framed by the recent comments by Angela Merkel and David Cameron, this paper seeks to investigate, through a comparative approach, the opinions of students at Durham University in England and Universitat Duisburg-Essen in Germany on the successes and failures of multiculturalism, and how it has impacted upon the identity of migrants. The paper will discuss theoretical approaches, notably those of the Robert Ezra Park and Max Weber, as well as offering a historical background to the two nations’ histories of migration. This will then be applied, with reference to existing literature, to such areas as dual citizenship, political participation, the effect of religion and background of migrants as well as a field where migrants are particularly visible, football. To this end, a questionnaire featuring 22 questions was sent out to students across a range of disciplines at both Durham and Duisburg-Essen to find out how they felt integration has gone, what impact religion had and how they viewed migrants. Most respondents viewed multiculturalism positively and stated that the host state benefitted from multiculturalism, but that there were ways integration could be improved. Language acquisition was considered key for integration, encouraging migrants to take language classes as well as offering them more widely was considered very important, as well as seeking to bring migrants into the local communities so as to lessen prejudice from locals and to break down barriers.