The European ‘refugee crisis’, which started during the summer of 2015, has challenged European countries and their societies on many levels. This graduation project focuses on the impact on the Dutch society and zooms in on the concerns of its policymakers, citizens and asylum seekers; refugees that have applied for asylum in the Netherlands. Through desk research and interviews with stakeholders insights are gained in the Dutch asylum system. The current Dutch asylum system is slow, sluggish, and unclear. During the application, applicants are put on hold in overcrowded asylum centres in sparsely populated regions of the country, and thus are isolated from the Dutch society. This leads to postponed developments, identity issues and gaining a residence permit becomes a goal on its own. The system neglects the long term concerns of asylum seekers: activation, contact with Dutch, allowed to be part of society, participation, and acknowledgement of existence. On the other side Dutch citizens fear that they will lose their for instance their culture, jobs and houses to the immigrants. Their responses are based on feelings of losing control on ownership and safety in their own surroundings. This adds up to their long-term concern of keeping grip on the Dutch identity and keeping the Netherlands as it is. When viewed on a collective scale, there is a need for a stable, socially and culturally inclusive society without segregation. A smooth asylum relief should be matched with keeping Dutch prosperity. It becomes clear that it is not just a matter of smoothing out the asylum process. The real problem to be solved is found on a societal level. Therefore, the focus in this report/design process will be on the integration of immigrants in Dutch society. Current Dutch integration policies mostly focus on the ‘hard-side’ of integration: obtaining (social) housing, learning Dutch, taking care of required registrations and entering the labour market or suitable education. However, interventions that would help consolidate asylum seekers’ relationships in the neighbourhoods and cities where they live, the ‘soft-side’ of integration, leading to their inclusion in national society as a whole, are equally important. This so-called ‘bridging social capital’ provides a sense of rootedness and wider social inclusion. Therefore the Dutch neighbourhoods are actually facing the biggest social challenge as they play a crucial role in integration. To match this challenge, a new vision on/of integration is necessary. Using the Social Implication Design (SID) method developed by Tromp (2013) a new vision on integration in the Netherlands for 2030 is formulated. This vision implies a change of behaviour in relating to migrants in the country. The Local Citizenship design proposes a way to effectuate this change. The concept that is developed contributes to social inclusion in Dutch neighbourhoods by letting neighbours - independent of their social, cultural or asylum status - contribute to the desired identity of their neighbourhood on an equal basis. The concept provides a platform to create synergy between both Dutch neighbours and asylum seekers through experiencing contribution to a new whole. Experts found the Local Citizenship concept refreshing, innovative and insightful. The concepts puts users instead of the system central and translates Neighbourhood Values into doable practices that can easily be executed in the neighbourhood. Intended users also acknowledged the understandability of the values and the concept as a whole. Moreover, they, asylum seekers and Dutch neighbours alike, were quickly enthusiastic and inspired by the concept. On a policy-making level, however, there were some concerns about the aim of the design to focus on the soft side of integration. This expert/intended user voiced a preference for explicit interventions like organizing discussion evenings with neighbours. In short, the Local Citizenship Concept can stimulate integration in the Netherlands in an accessible, easy-to-understand way. This is necessary to elicit behavioural change on a large scale. The main goals of the Local Citizenship Concept are to create synergy, to consider each ‘neighbour’ as being of equal value and recognizing and empowering every one of them.