Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries

Helbling, Marc; Simon, Stephan; Schmid, Samuel D.

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2020.1727316

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“…Further research is needed to better understand why, if at all, such a devaluation hypothesis only seems to hold for occupational status (and not for employment as such) and why only for men (and not for women). Building on our comparative approach as well as the recent work by Helbling et al ( 2020 ), researchers could also further explore the extent to which immigration policies, rather than citizenship policies, condition the citizenship premium in labour markets of destination countries, through the selective impact of admission criteria.…”

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Immigrant Naturalisation, Employment and Occupational Status in Western Europe

Hoxhaj¹,

Vink

Breuer

2020

Front. Sociol.

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Does citizenship facilitate access to employment and higher status jobs? Existing studies have produced mixed results across mostly single case studies in Europe and North America. To investigate whether this heterogeneity depends on varying institutional and socio-economic conditions, in this paper we analyse the labour market outcomes of immigrants who have naturalised in 13 West European countries. Our empirical analysis draws on data from the 2014 European Labour Force Survey Ad Hoc Module on immigrants. In order to cope with the selective nature of the naturalisation process, we employ a bivariate probit model that accounts for unobserved characteristics of naturalising immigrants. Our main results show a positive relationship across these destination countries between citizenship and the probability of employment, as well as between citizenship and occupational status, but only for immigrant men from developing countries. For women and for migrants from developed countries, we observe no significant differences between citizens and non-citizens. Liberalising the access to citizenship does not diminish the positive returns on employment from naturalisation. For immigrant men from developing countries there is evidence of a trade-off between easier access to citizenship and the returns on occupational status.

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Immigrant Naturalisation, Employment and Occupational Status in Western Europe

Hoxhaj¹,

Vink

Breuer

2020

Front. Sociol.

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“…Children of immigrants have the opportunity of full integration if given the right schooling opportunities. On the other hand, Helbling, Simon, and Schmid (2020) show on the evidence of 22 European countries that immigration restrictions do not lead to better integration of migrants.…”

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The Impact of International Migration on Inclusive Growth: A Review

Rozhkov¹,

Kóczán²,

Pinat³

2021

IMF Working Papers

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International migration is an important channel of material improvement for individuals and their offspring. The movement of people across country borders, especially from less developed to richer countries, has a substantial impact in several dimensions. First, it affects the migrants themselves by allowing them to achieve higher income as a result of their higher productivity in the destination country. It also increases the expected income for their offspring. Second, it affects the destination country through the impact on labor markets, productivity, innovation, demographic structure, fiscal balance, and criminality. Third, it can have a significant impact on the countries of origin. It may lead to loss of human capital, but it also creates a flow of remittances and increases international connections in the form of trade, FDI, and technological transfers. This paper surveys our understanding of how migration affects growth and inequality through the impact on migrants themselves as well as on the destination and origin countries.

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“…According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), by the end of 2019, there were 79.5 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 26 million of whom were refugees (UNHCR 2020). 1 Despite evidence that around 85 percent of refugees and people in need of international protection live in developing nations, most research on the legislative frameworks for the protection of refugees has focused on OECD countries (Bjerre et al 2015;Helbling et al 2017;Helbling and Kalkum 2018). Until the Venezuelan displacement crisis in 2015, Latin America was one of the leastresearched regions in the field of refugee studies, likely because of its low refugee numbers, compared to other regions such as the Middle East or East Africa (Pugh 2018;International Crisis Group 2018;UNHCR 2018;Freier and Holloway 2019;Freier and Parent 2019;Selee et al 2019).…”

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A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020

Gallego

2021

International Migration Review

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Recent scholarship has claimed that countries across Latin America have been adopting an increasingly liberal and more advanced legal framework for the protection of refugees. Yet little systematic cross-country evidence beyond case studies exists to back up this claim. To address this gap in the literature, I develop a new methodology — called the Asylum Policies in Latin America (APLA) Database — to measure policy outputs on asylum across Latin America over time. Applying this new methodology, I present the results of the codification of 19 Latin American countries, over a 31-year period (1990–2020), using 65 indicators to track the development of policy measures on asylum. The findings from this new database confirm the claim from existing research that countries across Latin America have developed an increasingly complex and more liberal legal framework for the protection of refugees. This liberal trend in asylum legislation stands in contrast to findings of increased restrictiveness over the same period across OECD countries. The APLA Database represents a unique contribution to the fields of migration and refugee studies, as it provides systematic data on the nature and development of asylum policies in Latin America through highly disaggregated data on policy outputs. Additionally, APLA demonstrates the existence of intra-regional variation. It also allows scholars to develop and test hypotheses in the field of asylum studies and provides a reference database for comparative analyses of asylum policies in Latin America, as well as a framework for the comparative study of asylum policies across the globe.

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Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries

Cited by 31 publications

References 59 publications

Immigrant Naturalisation, Employment and Occupational Status in Western Europe

Immigrant Naturalisation, Employment and Occupational Status in Western Europe

The Impact of International Migration on Inclusive Growth: A Review

A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020

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