Assessing the Level of Immigrant Integration in Finland

Kunwar, Jagat

doi:10.1108/s1877-636120200000025012

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“…This measure defines successful integration as the acquisition of knowledge and capabilities necessary to establish a fulfilling and prosperous life within the host society. This integration metric, validated by several studies conducted in different contexts [e.g., 22,31], gauges integration success through two questions for each of the six dimensions: psychological, economic, political, social, linguistic, and navigational integration. For example, navigational integration evaluates the challenges immigrants face when searching for employment or accessing medical care in the host country.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of Private Hosting on the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees

Herpell,

Marbach,

Harder

et al. 2024

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Amidst the Ukrainian displacement crisis, private hosting of refugees in Europe has surged, yet its impact on integration remains understudied. This research investigates the effects of private hosting on Ukrainian refugee integration in Germany. Utilizing data from one of the largest non-profit matching platforms for private refugee accommodation, we compare multidimensional integration outcomes of refugees matched with private hosts with observably similar refugees who applied for private hosting but were not matched. Our findings indicate a significant improvement in the social, psychological, and navigational integration of refugees hosted privately, with no discernible effects on linguistic, economic, and political integration. This study provides causal evidence on the effectiveness of private hosting in improving refugee integration, highlighting its potential to complement traditional public asylum reception and housing systems and to leverage civil society engagement for refugee integration during humanitarian crises.

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of Private Hosting on the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees

Herpell,

Marbach,

Harder

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…Although sufficient internal consistency has been achieved through Rasch rating scale analysis and EFA, the predictive power of the ISS‐10 against external measures has not yet been substantiated. To fill this gap, the questionnaire was administered a second time to compare the ISS‐10 against the baseline of the IPL‐12 which is an instrument that has seen widespread use in a variety of contexts for quantifying integration (Emeriau et al., 2022; Harder et al., 2018; Harris et al., 2021; Kunwar, 2020; Teng et al., 2022). The results from the first administration were not compared to the IPL‐12 as the goal of that administration was instrument refinement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The instrument was then analysed with exploratory factor analysis (EFA; Plonsky, 2015) to investigate the individual factors underpinning the overarching construct of linguistic support within the instrument. Third, the instrument was then administered to a second sample of international faculty, and the results were compared to those from an established baseline, the IPL‐12, a 12‐item survey instrument developed by the Immigration Policy Lab and used in a number of contexts to measure the degree of integration of migration populations (Emeriau et al., 2022; Harder et al., 2018; Harris et al., 2021; Kunwar, 2020; Teng et al., 2022), using LME regression analyses (Faraway, 2016).…”

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The Institutional and Social Support Survey (ISS‐10): Quantifying international faculty language support

Patterson,

Brotherhood

2024

Higher Education Quarterly

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The purpose of this study was to develop and test the internal and external reliability of a novel research instrument which measures language support for international faculty members and its effects on integration. While previous research has focused on the contributions of international faculty and efforts to attract them, growing concerns about negative experiences and low rates of retention have led scholars to focus on institutional linguistic support. Specifically in emerging host countries, interest exists for the role of support for learning the local language. In this context, this study substantiates an instrument, the Institutional and Social Support Survey (ISS‐10) which quantifies social support and language support provided by host universities. The instrument was first refined using Rasch rating scale analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Subsequent linear mixed effects (LME) regression on a second administration of the instrument revealed that the ISS‐10 significantly predicts the integration of international faculty as quantified by the IPL‐12, an often‐used measure of migrant integration. The ISS‐10 may, therefore, be of interest to scholars researching international faculty integration where local language proficiency is a concern.

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“…• Non-economic Integration To measure non-economic integration, we deploy the IPL-12 multidimensional integration index developed and validated by Harder et al (2018). The IPL-12 index has been used and further validated in a variety of settings to measure immigrant integration (e.g., Aksoy et al, 2020;Kunwar, 2020;Wasem, 2020). It defines successful integration as having the knowledge and the capacity to succeed in the host country.…”

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confidence: 99%