Governance of Integration and the Role of the Countries of Origin – A Global Perspective

Abstract

This book provides a theoretical framing to analyse and examine the interaction between origin and destination in the migrant integration process. Coverage offers a set of concrete conceptual tools, which can be operationalised when measuring integration. This title is the first of two complementary volumes, each of which is designed to stand alone and provide a different approach to the topic. Here, the chapters offer a detailed look at integration across eight key areas: labour, education, language and culture, civic and political participation, housing, social ties, religion, and access to citizenship. Readers are presented with an examination into the globally available knowledge on interactions between emigration/diaspora policies on one hand and integration policies on the other. Migrants actively belong to two places: the land they left behind and the home they are seeking to build. This book gives an insightful argument for the need to include information about countries and communities of origin when examining integration, which is often overlooked. It will appeal to academics, policymakers, integration practitioners, civil society organisations, as well as students. 1: Introduction: Integration as a three-way process: Anna Unterreiner, Agnieszka Weinar -- 2: Immigrant assimilation in the labour market: what is missing in economic literature: Alessandra Venturini -- 3: Country of origin effects and impacts on educational attainment of pupils with migrant backgrounds. Towards a new research agenda: Dirk Jacobs and Anne Unterreiner -- 4: Language acquisition and cultural integration: Alexandra Filhon -- 5: Political and civic participation of immigrants in host countries. An interpretative framework from the perspective of the origin countries and societies: Lorenzo Gabrielli, Sonia GSIR, Ricard Zapata-Barrero -- 6: Residential Integration – Towards A Sending Country Perspective: Sona Kalantaryan, Ben Gidley, Maria Luisa Caputo -- 7: Do countries of origin contribute to socio-cultural integration of migrants abroad? Sonia Gsir -- 8: Religion and Diasporas: Challenges of the Emigration countries: Jocelyn Cesari -- 9: Access to Citizenship and the Role of Origin Countries: Maarten Peter Vink, Tijana Prokic-Breuer, Jaap Dronkers -- 10: Governance of integration and the role of the countries of origin – a global perspective: Agnieszka Weinar, Maria Vincenza Desiderio, Cameron Thibos.