Projektbeschreibung
Das versteckte Potenzial von Asyl- und Integrationspolitik in Europa beleuchten
In den letzten zehn Jahren haben Europas Regierungen eine Vielzahl von asyl- und integrationspolitischen Maßnahmen ergriffen, ohne deren Wirkung ausreichend zu evaluieren. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt INTEGRATE will nun systematische Belege dafür liefern, wie wichtige Parameter im Asylverfahren ursächlich auf die kurz- und langfristige Integration von Geflüchteten und ihren Familien in Dänemark, Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweden und der Schweiz wirken. Außerdem soll untersucht werden, ob wirksame Integrationsprogramme, die politisch vorgegebene zeitliche und räumliche Variation in Integrationserfolg umsetzen können, auch Feindseligkeiten mindern und die Unterstützung für rechtsextreme Parteien in den Gastgemeinden reduzieren. Über diesen zweiteiligen Ansatz will das Projekt zu mehr gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt und weniger negativ besetzten Konflikten über Geflüchtete beitragen.
Ziel
Confronted with the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War, European governments are struggling with a complex and urgent question: how to best facilitate the integration of increasing numbers of refugees, while mitigating political conflict and native backlash in host communities?
Despite the importance of this question, we lack reliable causal evidence of the impact of the asylum process and the consequences of most integration programs. The goal of INTEGRATE is two-fold. First, to provide systematic evidence that identifies the causal effects of the key parameters of the asylum process on the short and long-term economic, educational, health, political and social integration of refugees, their families, and children in five European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Specifically, INTEGRATE will examine the impact of wait times, labor market access, apprenticeship and training programs, early enrolment in language courses, integration contracts, welfare support, and family reunification policies on integration trajectories. INTEGRATE will achieve this goal by utilizing quasi-experimental research designs and by combining the coverage of high-quality register panel data with comprehensive integration measures from targeted surveys.
Second, INTEGRATE will assess whether effective integration programs alleviate hostility and moderate support for extreme-right parties in host communities by leveraging policy-induced temporal and spatial variation in integration success. In so doing, INTEGRATE endeavours to shed light on the potential of asylum and integration policies to improve social cohesion and lesson refugee-native conflict.
In sum, the goal of INTEGRATE is to use causal research designs and innovative statistical methodology to comprehensively evaluate the asylum process in Europe, establishing an evidence base that can be used to redesign the asylum process to improve outcomes for both refugees and host societies.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantGastgebende Einrichtung
8092 Zuerich
Schweiz