Surveying Migrants in Europe. Experiences of the Swiss Migration-Mobility Survey

Abstract

The increasing need for information on immigrants can scarcely be satisfied by traditional population surveys or censuses. Only migrant-specific surveys allow for the integration of migrant-specific topics. However, when organizing a survey targeting immigrants, challenges concerning the survey setup are even more accentuated compared to traditional surveys. After a short introduction, this chapter first reviews the literature on survey methodology when targeting migrant populations. Second, it provides an overview of how specific migrant surveys, which have been undertaken in Europe since the year 2000, have addressed different challenges. Third, and considering the first two chapters, it reviews the implementation of the Migration-Mobility Survey by presenting the target population, the sampling procedure, the survey design and the data collection process and response rates. The chapter closes with a short overview of the main socio-demographic characteristics of the participants, thus serving as a basis for the following chapters of this book, and a short preview of the planned second wave of the Migration-Mobility Survey.

The Extent of Résumé Whitening

“…The survey includes respondents aged 24–65 at the time of the survey, and at least 18 when they moved to Switzerland. To capture the different immigrant groups in Switzerland, the survey used a mixed-mode approach (principally online, available by telephone), and was administered in six languages: German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Portuguese – the official languages of Switzerland, English, and the languages of the two remaining most numerous immigrant groups in Switzerland 2 (for a review of the survey, see Steiner and Landös (2019) and Gerber and Wanner (2019)). A total number of 18,372 individuals were contacted, using official and harmonized registers as the sampling frame; a total number of 7740 replied (of which 207 by telephone), yielding a response rate of 42.2%.…”

“…The data are from the second wave of the Migration-Mobility Survey, a representative survey carried out in Switzerland in the fall of 2018 (Steiner and Landös, 2019). The target population consists of immigrants (people born abroad and with foreign citizenship) who moved to Switzerland between 2008 and 2018.…”

The Many Forms of Multiple Migrations: Evidence from a Sequence Analysis in Switzerland, 1998 to 2008

“…Weber and Saarela (2017), for example, linked administrative register data from Sweden and Finland. In other cases, scholars have used surveys to collect retrospective information about people's migration history (see Steiner and Landös (2019) for an overview of such surveys). The information in these survey data, however, tends to be limited, biased, or both (Beauchemin, 2014), leaving scholars with an incomplete picture of the phenomenon.…”

“…German immigrants represent more than 37 percent of the B cluster. As shown by Steiner (2014), recent German immigrants to Switzerland tend to first settle close to the German border or in economic centers. Typically highly educated, these immigrants tend to have greater capabilities to take up better opportunities in another Swiss economic area.…”

Etnik ve Göçmen Azınlıklar ile Anket Çalışmaları: Türkiye Örnekleri Üzerine Yöntembilimsel Bir İnceleme

“…Geçtiğimiz yıllarda politika yapım süreçlerine destek sağlayacak sağlıklı veriye duyulan ihtiyacın artmasıyla birlikte göçmen ve etnik gruplardan veri toplama çabalarına destek olacak yöntemsel çalışmalar da oldukça yaygınlaşmıştır. Bu yöntemsel çalışmalarda etnik ve göçmenler azınlıklar ile yürütülen anket çalışmalarında örneklem belirlemede farklı metotların avantaj ve dezavantajları (Careja ve Andreß, 2018;Font ve Méndez, 2013;Reichel ve Morales, 2017;Tyldum, 2021), anket dizaynı ve veri toplama sürecindeki problemler (Fortunato vd., 2019;Steiner ve Landös, 2019), cevaplama oranının yükseltilmesi ve katılımcı alımı (recruitment of participants) (Fête vd., 2019;Zeisler vd., 2020), araştırmacının saha çalışmasındaki konumu (pozisyonu) (Carling vd., 2014;De Tona vd., 2010) gibi pek çok konuya dikkat çekilmektedir. Okuyacağınız çalışmada ise etnik ve göçmen azınlıklar ile yürütülen çalışmalarda hedef kitlenin belirlenmesi ve çalışmanın örnekleminin oluşturulması konuları üzerinde durularak Türkiye'de 2000-2019 yılları arasında etnik ve göçmen azınlıklar ile yürütülen ve Uluslararası Etnik ve Göçmen Azınlıklar Anket Veri Ağı COST Aksiyonu çerçevesinde derlenen nicel çalışmalar bu iki konuda başta olmak üzere çeşitli açılardan yöntemsel olarak incelenmektedir.…”