Integration: knowing, measuring, evaluating 17-18 giugno 2013

1. Monitoring
integration
concepts, data,
results

2. Three topics
• Integration: definitions
• Type of data
• Position of migrants in the
Netherlands: some results
• Concluding remarks and
challenges

3. Integration
• Essentially contested
concept
• Multidimensional
• Two-sided process

4. Measuring integration: conceptual framework
Integration indicators
Platzierung
(socioeconomic position)
Interaktion
Kulturation
Identifikation
Host society
Discrimination
Social climate
Ethnic distance
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5. Annual integration report
• Description, trends & analysis
• Migrants of Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese and Antillean origin
• Shift towards other migrant groups (EU, refugee groups)
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6. Types of source
• Administrative databases
Data on country of birth linked to administrative databases
• Surveys
general surveys
surveys specifically focusing on migrant groups
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7. Social assistance benefits (population aged 15-65 years, %)
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8. Frequent contact with native Dutch in their leisure time (%)
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
1994 1998 2002 2006 2011
Antilleans
Surinamese
Moroccan
Turks

9. Command of the Dutch language (average scale scores)
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2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
1998 2002 2004 2006 2011
Surinamese
Antilleans
Moroccan
Turkish

10. Identification with the Dutch and ethnic origin group
(%)
feels Dutch feels ‘origin group’
Turkish 28 87
Moroccan 37 88
Surinamese 67 57
Antillean 57 59
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11. Dutch system monitoring integration
• Long-standing involvement government: continuity
• Population records, information on coutry of birth
• Statistics Netherlands: administrative databases and country of
birth
• Lively community of researchers: survey research on migrants
Challenges:
• Keep the system intact
• More analyses
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