Samuel D. Schmid

Political Scientist


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Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019


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Giacomo Solano, Samuel D. Schmid, Marc Helbling
International Migration Review, online first, 2023


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Solano, G., Schmid, S. D., & Helbling, M. (2023). Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019. International Migration Review, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231172102


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Solano, Giacomo, Samuel D. Schmid, and Marc Helbling. “Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019.” International Migration Review online first (2023).


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Solano, Giacomo, et al. “Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019.” International Migration Review, vol. online first, 2023, doi:10.1177/01979183231172102.


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@article{giacomo2023a,
  title = {Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {International Migration Review},
  volume = {online first},
  doi = {10.1177/01979183231172102},
  author = {Solano, Giacomo and Schmid, Samuel D. and Helbling, Marc}
}

Abstract
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant Integration Policy Index, which includes information on several different policy areas related to migrant integration in 36 EU and OECD countries between 2010 and 2019. Employing a wide set of methods, we investigate whether migrant integration policies have become more liberal or restrictive and whether they have converged across these countries during this period. We find that overall these policies have become more liberal, except in non-EU countries as well as in the areas of family reunion and permanent residence. However, the magnitude of these changes is rather small. We also show that there has been a trend of convergence in integration policy, which varies in intensity across policy areas. We conclude that while migrants’ rights have been extended, long-term settlement has been limited. The popular idea that this decade, marked by crises, has triggered a comprehensive restrictive backlash in migrant integration policies is refuted.




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