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AU - Helbling, Marc
AU - Simon, Stephan
AU - Schmid, Samuel D.
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Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries
KW - Europa
KW - Einwanderung
KW - Einwanderungspolitik
KW - internationaler Vergleich
KW - politische Integration
KW - soziale Integration
KW - wirtschaftliche Integration
KW - integration outcomes
KW - Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database, 1980-2010
KW - European Social Survey (ESS), rounds 1-8
PY - 2020
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet (peer reviewed)
N2 - In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2020)
N2 - Elaborating a popular assumption about the effects of immigration policies on the integration of migrants, we argue in this article that more restrictive immigration policies lead to the selection of immigrants with greater integration potential, and that this selection should foster migrant integration. To test this argument, we combine country-level data from the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database with individual-level data on economic, political and social integration from multiple rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS) across 22 European countries. We show that, first, more restrictive immigration policies do not increase the likelihood of more educated migrants to be admitted, but they do make it more likely for migrants from European OECD countries to be admitted, while making it less likely for migrants outside the OECD. Second, we find that immigration policies affect some forms of economic, political and social integration outcomes, but mostly for immigrants from non-OECD countries. We conclude that immigration policies do affect integration outcomes but that these effects are small and limited to specific integration outcomes and migrants from specific regions. Our study, therefore, relativises the underlying popular assumption that immigration restrictions foster migrant integration, bearing important implications for the currently salient debates on immigration policy-making.
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