1st Edition

Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant's Integration in Europe Comparing Integration Policies and Monitoring Systems for the Integration of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities

Edited By Rob Bijl, Arjen Verweij Copyright 2012
300 Pages
by Netherlands Institute for Social Research

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... Read more
1 Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant's Integration in Europe fact and views 2 Monitoring Integration in Austria 3 Monitoring Integration in Belgium 4 Monitoring Integration in Czech Republic 4 Integration process in Denmark 5 Integration in Estonia 7 Germany: Integration in a federal state 8 Integration in Ireland 9 Integration in a reluctant immigration country: the case of Italy 10 Monitoring Integration in Latvia 11 Monitoring systems for the integration of ethnic minorities and immigrants in Lithuania 12 Monitoring Integration in the Netherlands 13 Monitoring integration in Norway 14 From (many) datasets to (one) integration monitoring system in Poland? 15 Monitoring immigrant integration in Portugal: Managing the gap between available data and implemented policy 16 Monitoring integration in Sweden.

Biography

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.