Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant's Integration in Europe: Comparing Integration Policies and Monitoring Systems for the Integration of Immigrants ... (Netherlands Institute for Social Research) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9037705693 ISBN 13: 9789037705690

Publisher: Netherlands Inst for Social Res, 2012

Synopsis

Europe is trying to streamline its policy on the integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities. The information available on integration in the different countries is still very variable in its extent and quality. In this report, authors from sixteen European countries describe how integration is approached in their country, what the integration objectives of their government are, where the problems lie, and what the implications of this are for monitoring the process of integration over time in their country.  Europe is trying to streamline its policy on the integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities. The information available on integration in the different countries is still very variable in its extent and quality. In this report, authors from sixteen European countries describe how integration is approached in their country, what the integration objectives of their government are, where the problems lie, and what the implications of this are for monitoring the process of integration over time in their country.

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About the Author

Rob Bijl

is the vice-director of the Netherlands Instititute for Social Research/SCP.

Arjen Verweij

is a sociologic economist. For almost fifteen years, he conducted research at the department of economics of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and published on identification and classification of ethnic minorities, their integration in the Netherlands, on quality of place and on the methodology of applied social research (monitoring). Currently, he is a research advisor at the Ministry of the Interior on the topics of housing, integration, neighborhoods, and communities.

From the Back Cover

Europe is a favoured destination for many migrants. The region's economic prosperity, relatively high level of political stability and democratic principles are appealing to many migrants, whether they be asylum-seekers or regular migrants in search of work or looking to study.
In this book we examine views on integration in 17 European countries, and explore how these are translated into national policy and what efforts are being made in the various countries to map out the integration processes of migrants and track them over time.
The different chapters in this book present a kaleidoscopic overview of opinions about integration and the efforts to make integration measurable in practice. Europe has spent more than ten years trying to achieve greater uniformity in integration policy across the Member States. However, from this book we learn that we have to accept that harmonisation in the monitoring of immigrant integration in Europe is still some way off.

Edition details

• Publisher: Netherlands Inst for Social Res
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9037705693
• ISBN 13: 9789037705690
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Bijl Rob, Verweij Arjen