Monitoring integration

concepts, data, results

Three topics• Integration: definitions

• Type of data

• Position of migrants in the Netherlands: some results

• Concluding remarks and challenges

Integration

• Essentially contested concept

• Multidimensional

• Two-sided process

Measuring integration: conceptual framework

Integration indicators

Platzierung(socioeconomic

position)

Interaktion

Kulturation

Identifikation

Host society

Discrimination

Social climate

Ethnic distance

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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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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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Social assistance benefits (population aged 15-65 years, %)

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Frequent contact with native Dutch in their leisure time (%)

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1994 1998 2002 2006 20110

10

20

30

40

50

60

AntilleansSurinameseMoroccanTurks

Command of the Dutch language (average scale scores)

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1998 2002 2004 2006 20112

2.5

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3.5

4

4.5

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SurinameseAntilleansMoroccanTurkish

Identification with the Dutch and ethnic origin group (%)

feels Dutch feels ‘origin group’Turkish 28 87Moroccan 37 88Surinamese 67 57Antillean 57 59

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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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