measuring immigration policies: the IMPIC database

Helbling, Marc; Bjerre, Liv; Römer, Friederike; Zobel, Malisa

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“…The very condensation of information towards a single measure reflects an assumption that all information added up could give a picture of a coherent phenomenon. Serious attempts at building indices must therefore address and discuss these rationales for aggregation (Helbling, Bjerre, R€ omer, & Zobel, 2016). In the Data section we present theoretical and empirical arguments to substantiate our aggregation methodology.…”

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Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Pedroza

Palop-García

2017

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c tIn this paper we present the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX), an index that summarizes the emigrant policies developed by 22 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) states. In recent decades sending states have increasingly adopted policies to keep economic, political or social links with their emigrants. These "emigrant policies" vary in scope and nature between different countries and include measures as diverse as dual citizenship policies, programs to stimulate remittances, the right to vote in the home country from abroad, and the creation of government agencies to administer emigrant issues. The EMIX proposes a useful tool to condense and compare a wide spectrum of policies across countries. Its development involved the collection of official data, as well as a critical review of secondary literature and input from experts as complementary sources. Through a rigorous framework for constructing the index, we show how emigrant policies can be aggregated to measure the overall degree and volume of emigrant policies in LAC states. The results of the EMIX portray a region that has indeed made serious efforts to assist their diaspora in the states of reception and to encourage their involvement in the political, economic and social fabric in the states of origin. The results, however, also reveal great variation in the emigrant policies and the administrative setting adopted by LAC states.

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“…The ordinal indicators are combined following different procedures in order to create interval scales for the subcomponents and components of the index. As discussed by Helbling et al (2016), the combination of different measurement levels can raise some problems (pp. 10e11).…”

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Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Pedroza

Palop-García

2017

Political Geography

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“…Moreover, this table does not even include immigration policy indices—a comparative latecomer to the index literature. Some of these include Timothy Hatton’s Asylum Policy Index (Hatton & Moloney, , Hatton, ), Martin Ruhs’s Openness and Migration Rights Indicators (); Helbling, Bjerre, Römer, and Zobel’s () Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC); the International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) database (Beine et al, ); Cerna’s () index of states’ openness to high‐skilled immigrants (HSI); and the Determinants of International Migration (DEMIG) policy database, which tracks policy change across 45 countries between 1945 and 2013 (De Haas, Natter, & Vezzoli ).…”

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“… For example, both Howard () and Janoski () include naturalization rates as a way to bridge the gap between citizenship policy and practice, which Helbling et al () argues is problematic. …”

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Indexing Immigration and Integration Policy: Lessons from Europe

Goodman¹

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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Immigrant‐related policy indexes have become popular in both U.S. and European contexts, yet these projects boast distinct and divergent trajectories. European indices are characterized by rigorous conceptualization, specificity in elements of policy design (e.g., settings like fees or appeal process), and a variety of measurement strategies. By contrast, U.S. state‐level policy indices exhibit a lack of differentiation between immigration and integration policy and excessive generality in measurement and representation of policy instruments and settings, exacerbated in presenting a policy index as an aggregate count. This paper argues U.S. policy indexing can benefit from the European indexing experience. Following an overview of the state of each field, assessing concept differentiation, specification, and measurement in each, the paper illustrates how even the well‐conceived and specified European integration policy indices run into problems at the analysis stage. It presents a replication‐replacement study to illustrate divergent performance of highly correlated and conceptually agreeing indices, as well as methodological issues inherent to indices of low‐N, including using a policy index as a dependent variable and index selection absent a priori theorization. It concludes with suggestions for improving American immigration policy indices, as well as general observations on working with statistical power‐challenged indices and data limitations.

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“…8 The various measures provide information on the policy area and migrant group targeted, as well as the change in restrictiveness they introduce in the existing legal system. The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database covers regulations in 33 OECD countries for the time period 1980 to 2010 and for four sub-fields: labor migration, family reunification, asylum and refugees, and co-ethnics (Helbling, Bjerre, Römer, & Zobel, 2016). 9 Moreover, it is possible to distinguish regulations from control mechanisms and external and internal regulations as well as to differentiate between conditions, eligibility criteria, security of status, and migrant rights.…”

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A New Agenda for Immigration and Citizenship Policy Research

Helbling

Michalowski

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractGiven the widespread interest in political solutions to the current problems associated with immigration, we need to have an accurate understanding of existing policies in a cross-national perspective. To explain the coming into being and effectiveness of these policies, researchers have recently started to quantify immigration and citizenship policies and built databases across time and a large number of countries. These indices are likely to reconnect political science research with a field from which it has long been disconnected in terms of theories and methodology-the sub-field of migration and citizenship research. This special issue brings together scholars from North America and Europe who have been at the forefront of indexbuilding and have started to employ these indices in empirical research.

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measuring immigration policies: the IMPIC database

Abstract: measuring immigration policies: the impic database marc helbling a,b, * , liv bjerre b , friederike römer b and malisa zobel c

Cited by 144 publications

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Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Indexing Immigration and Integration Policy: Lessons from Europe

A New Agenda for Immigration and Citizenship Policy Research

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