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Residential Integration – Towards a Sending Country Perspective

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Migrant Integration Between Homeland and Host Society Volume 1

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This chapter explores the key issues relating to how housing integration might be understood and further researched from a “country of origin” perspective. Residential integration is a key and perhaps even foundational dimension of the integration of migrants and minorities. Residential integration includes two key elements: the nature and quality of the housing that minorities occupy, assessed in terms of factors such as tenure, overcrowding and disrepair; and the patterns of migrant residence in receiving societies, including clustering or its absence. Residential integration in the second sense is usually seen as opposite to residential segregation, although, as we shall see below, segregation itself is defined in multiple ways, in terms of uneven distribution of settlement and low chances of inter-ethnic contact, as well as concentration, centralization and clustering. “Clustering” itself is a more neutral term, referring to the propensity of specific groups to live together, rather than to their separation from other groups.

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    See for example, Borjas 2002, Bourassa 1994, Constant et al. 2009, Coulson 1999, Duffy 2007, Hirschman 1994, Massey 1985, Mesch and Mano 2006, Myers and Lee 1998, Painter et al. 2003, Painter and Yu 2008.

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    Kohlbacher and Reeger (2005) “There are nation-specific factors determining patterns of socio-spatial segregation in the urban context even making it difficult to compare segregation for example in the two neighboring and German speaking countries Austria and Germany.”

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    See Presidency conference conclusions on indicators and monitoring of the outcome of integration policies, Annex to Ministerial Declaration, Zaragoza 2010. NOTE: In August 2013, new indicators were proposed by MPG to augment these Zaragoza indicators: Housing Cost Overburden (EU-SILC), and Overcrowding (EU-SILC).

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Kalantaryan, S., Gidley, B., Caputo, M.L. (2017). Residential Integration – Towards a Sending Country Perspective. In: Weinar, A., Unterreiner, A., Fargues, P. (eds) Migrant Integration Between Homeland and Host Society Volume 1. Global Migration Issues, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56176-9_6

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