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Davide Malmusi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Inequalities by immigrant status in depressive symptoms in Europe: the role of Integration Policy regimes.
    Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2017
    Co-Authors: Davide Malmusi, Laia Palència, Umar Z. Ikram, Anton E. Kunst, Carme Borrell
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    Purpose We aimed to study whether country Integration Policy models were related to inequalities by immigrant status in depressive symptoms in Europe.

  • immigrants health and health inequality by type of Integration policies in european countries
    European Journal of Public Health, 2015
    Co-Authors: Davide Malmusi
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    Background: Recent efforts to characterize Integration Policy towards immigrants and to compare immigrants’ health across countries have rarely been combined so far. This study explores the relationship of country-level Integration Policy with immigrants’ health status in Europe. Methods: Cross-sectional study with data from the 2011 European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions. Fourteen countries were grouped according to a typology of Integration policies based on the Migrant Integration Policy Index: ‘multicultural’ (highest scores: UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, Norway, Finland), ‘exclusionist’ (lowest scores: Austria, Denmark) and ‘assimilationist’ (high or low depending on the dimension: France, Switzerland, Luxembourg). People born in the country (natives, n = 177 300) or outside the European Union with >10 years of residence (immigrants, n = 7088) were included. Prevalence ratios (PR) of fair/poor self-rated health between immigrants in each country cluster, and for immigrants versus natives within each, were computed adjusting by age, education, occupation and socio-economic conditions. Results: Compared with multicultural countries, immigrants report worse health in exclusionist countries (age-adjusted PR, 95% CI: men 1.78, 1.49–2.12; women 1.58, 1.37–1.82; fully adjusted, men 1.78, 1.50–2.11; women 1.47, 1.26–1.70) and assimilationist countries (age-adjusted, men 1.21, 1.03–1.41; women 1.21, 1.06–1.39; fully adjusted, men 1.19, 1.02–1.40; women 1.22, 1.07–1.40). Health inequalities between immigrants and natives were also highest in exclusionist countries, where they persisted even after adjusting for differences in socio-economic situation. Conclusion: Immigrants in ‘exclusionist’ countries experience poorer socio-economic and health outcomes. Future studies should confirm whether and how Integration Policy models could make a difference on migrants’ health.

Sine Agergaard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • development and appropriation of an Integration Policy for sport how danish sports clubs have become arenas for ethnic Integration
    International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2011
    Co-Authors: Sine Agergaard
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    To answer why sports clubs have been ascribed a central role in resolving Integration issues in Denmark, this article refers to the anthropology of Policy. First, Policy is defined as what Mauss has called ‘a total social fact’. In other words, Policy is a social phenomenon that reflects the history and culture of the society in which it is created. Second, Policy is seen as discourses that are articulated by specific institutions, and third, the anthropological perspective focuses on the ways in which Policy is applied and interpreted in practice. The first part of this article therefore explores Danish immigration history and the development of an Integration Policy that currently focuses on adaptation of the cultural values and norms of immigrants. The second part of this article looks at current state funds that aim to promote this kind of adaptation through sports. It becomes clear that sports clubs are seen as organizations that distribute social capital, promote equality in society and facilitate i...

Sara Wallace Goodman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • conceptualizing and measuring citizenship and Integration Policy past lessons and new approaches
    Comparative Political Studies, 2015
    Co-Authors: Sara Wallace Goodman
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    Research on immigration and citizenship has become one of the fastest growing areas in political science, with one trend being the boon of comparative citizenship and immigration Policy indices. Th...

  • fortifying citizenship Policy strategies for civic Integration in western europe
    World Politics, 2012
    Co-Authors: Sara Wallace Goodman
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    Why have European states introduced mandatory Integration requirements for citizenship and permanent residence? There are many studies comparing Integration Policy and examining the significance of what has been interpreted as a convergent and restrictive "civic turn," a "retreat from multiculturalism," and an "inevitable lightening of citizenship." None of these studies, however, has puzzled over the empirical diversity of Integration Policy design or presented systematic, comparative explanations for Policy variation. This article is the first to develop an argument for what, in fact, amounts to a wealth of variation in civic Integration Policy (including scope, sequencing, and difficulty). Using a historical institutionalist approach, the author argues that states use mandatory Integration to address different membership problems, which are shaped by both existing citizenship Policy (whether it is inclusive or exclusive) and political pressure to change it (in other words, the politics of citizenship). She illustrates this argument by focusing on three case studies, applying the argument to a case of unchallenged restrictive retrenchment and continuity (Denmark), to a case of negotiated and thus moderated restriction (Germany), and to a case that recently exhibited both liberal continuity (the United Kingdom, 2001–6) and failed attempts at new restriction (the United Kingdom, 2006–10). These cases show that although states may converge around similar mandatory Integration instruments, they may apply them for distinctly different reasons. As a result, new requirements augment rather than alter the major contours of national citizenship Policy and the membership association it maintains.

Eleanor Morris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Family Reunification and Integration Policy in the EU: Where Are the Women?
    Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2015
    Co-Authors: Eleanor Morris
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    In its early efforts to create a migration regime, the EU passed the 2003 Directive on the Right to Family Reunification. This directive has long been considered controversial, in part because of the directive's treatment of migrant women. In 2011, the EU published a Green Paper on the right to family reunification as a way to begin to assess interest in revisiting this directive. While one could consider this a positive step due to the initial uproar over the 2003 directive, it is clear that the EU's interest in reopening the debate on family reunification is problematic for many reasons. This paper explains the consultation process in the EU to expose the concerns of various constituencies and uncovers the ways in which family reunification and Integration Policy in the EU are still conceived of as "gender neutral" Policy areas. While reopening the 2003 family reunification Directive could have been a positive move for migrant women, this paper underscores the ways in which the EU, and even parts of the nongovernmental community, continue to fall short in crafting gender sensitive policies that would benefit migrant women, their families, and the EU a whole.

Peter A Petri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the trans pacific partnership and asia pacific Integration Policy implications
    2012
    Co-Authors: Peter A Petri, Michael G Plummer
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    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, now in negotiation among nine Asia-Pacific countries, could yield annual global income gains of $295 billion (including $78 billion for the United States) and offers a pathway to free trade in the Asia-Pacific with potential gains of $1.9 trillion. The TPP’s expected template promises to be unusually productive because it offers opportunities for the leading sectors of emerging-market and advanced economies. An ambitious TPP template would generate greater benefits from Integration than less demanding alternatives, but it will be harder to sell to China and other key regional partners as the TPP evolves toward wider agreements. The importance of Asia-Pacific Integration argues for an early conclusion of the TPP negotiations, without jeopardizing the prospects for regionwide or even global agreements based on it in the future.

  • the trans pacific partnership and asia pacific Integration Policy implications
    Policy briefs, 2012
    Co-Authors: Peter A Petri, Michael G Plummer
    Abstract:

    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, now in negotiation among nine Asia-Pacific countries, could yield annual global income gains of $295 billion (including $78 billion for the United States) and offers a pathway to free trade in the Asia-Pacific with potential gains of $1.9 trillion. The TPP is a crucial step on what is becoming a "Trans-Pacific track" of trade agreements, and its expected template promises to be unusually productive because it offers opportunities for the leading sectors of emerging-market and advanced economies. A parallel pathway that the authors call the "Asian track" includes agreements centered on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), negotiations among China, Japan, and Korea, and proposals for pan-Asian free trade areas. Both the TPP and Asian tracks are large, positive-sum projects that would yield substantial net gains. Asian templates prepare the ground for cooperation by addressing primarily goods liberalization, but the TPP is likely to go further by liberalizing sectors important in both emerging-market and advanced economies (such as services and technology), thus expanding opportunities for trade between them. Together, the TPP and Asian tracks are a dynamic process—an example of competitive liberalization—that could consolidate the "noodle bowl" of existing trade agreements and lead to a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP). A comprehensive agreement among all major Asia-Pacific economies does not appear to be feasible in the current macroeconomic and political context but hopefully will become more acceptable in the future. An ambitious TPP template would generate greater benefits from Integration than less demanding alternatives, but it will be harder to sell to China and other key regional partners as the TPP evolves toward wider agreements. The importance of Asia-Pacific Integration argues for an early conclusion of the TPP negotiations, without jeopardizing the prospects for region-wide or even global agreements based on it in the future.