Measuring Immigrant Integration
Diversity in a European city
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Edited by: Peter Reinsch
, ERCOMER, Utrecht University,
The Netherlands.
How do social researchers and other observers recognise successfully
integrated immigrants? What presumptions are made to detect and
clarify individual differences in integration? In this book the
author develops a conceptual model that outlines the numerous
normative, theoretical and methodological issues bound to the
measurement of immigrant integration. He then uses this model
to order and interpret survey data gathered in the Dutch city
of Haarlem.
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( ISBN: 0 7546 1815 3,
318 pages Hardback) Ashgate
Publishing Limited
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Peter Reinsch takes an essentially normative step by ranking residents
according to their realization of three personal goals: self-reliance,
contentment and sociability. These goals presumably reflect local objectives
characteristic of the tolerant vision so often propagated in Dutch debates
and policies. A broad selection of survey measures are then reviewed
that represent divergent clarifications for immigrant's integration.
The book provides social observers with numerous guidelines to help
systematize and ameliorate their analyses of the integration process,
a process crucial for the future of European cities.
Contents
Introducing the issues; Framing the conceptual model; Contextual
considerations; Perceiving positions; Observing orientations; Calculating
contacts; Evaluating integration; Appreciating immigrants; Notes; Bibliography;
Appendices; Index.
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