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Comparing the Incomparable? Migrant Integration Policies and Perplexities of Comparison
Author(s) -
Gregurović Snježana,
ŽuparićIljić Drago
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12435
Subject(s) - immigration , scope (computer science) , odds , citizenship , economic integration , immigration policy , social integration , face (sociological concept) , political science , european integration , population , regional science , development economics , economic growth , demographic economics , economic geography , economics , geography , european union , sociology , international trade , politics , demography , social science , logistic regression , computer science , law , programming language , medicine
This article examines the level of development of integration policies in the European Economic Area and the attempts to compare and standardize them. We discuss national integration models and policies based on the results of the Migrant Integration Policy Index ( MIPEX ) and OECD / EU indicators of integration. Indicating the possible pitfalls of measuring and comparing integration policies, the results of researches into labour mobility and access to citizenship are examined. This comparative study shows that the indicators of immigrant integration are often at odds with the development level of integration policies, which results in their inadequate implementation in practice. Furthermore, EU countries face different challenges in the enactment of integration policies which spring from diverse (im)migration experiences, the scope of past migrations, and recent migratory flows. This is why integration policies should be re‐indexed, taking into consideration the particularities of (im)migration flows, the size of the immigrant population and other relevant factors.