MIGRANTS

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MIGRANTS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN COMPARATIVE
PERSPECTIVE THE LOCALMULTIDEM PROJECT

• Dr. Laura Morales
• (University of Murcia
• University of Manchester)

Sponsored by
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The Research Teams

• Project coordinator Dr. Laura Morales (ISC,
  University of Manchester).
• Institutional coordinator University of Murcia
  (Spain).
• Partners
• Dr. Manlio Cinalli (CEVIPOF-FNSP, France)
• - Prof. Mario Diani (University of Trento, Italy)
• - Dr. Marco Giugni (University of Geneva,
  Switzerland)
• - Prof. Endre Sik (MTAKI, Hungary)
• - Prof. Paul Statham (University of Bristol,
  United Kingdom)

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Studying immigrants political integration in
Europe an overview of the project

• Research questions
• To what extent are immigrants from different
  ethnic groups politically integrated in the local
  life of their cities?, and
• what explains the variations in the degree of
  political integration from one ethnic group to
  another?

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• Defining political integration
• the socio-political participation, and
• the political trust and acceptance of the
  immigrant/ethnic population with regard to the
  political values, elites, and institutions of the
  polity in which they live.
• The concept of political integration is
  operationalised in this project through the
  consideration of two different dimensions
• Political orientations political trust, interest
  in politics, political knowledge and information,
  feelings of identity and belonging, feelings of
  political efficacy, democratic values, social
  tolerance, concepts of citizenship, etc.
• Socio-political behaviour involvement in
  different kinds of associations (ethnic,
  political parties, trade unions, cultural groups,
  NGOs, etc.) and various forms of political action
  (electoral behaviour, and non-electoral
  behaviour).

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• Main hypotheses the degree of civic and
  political integration of migrant/ethnic groups is
  dependent on
• the individual characteristics of immigrants
• the ethnic and non-ethnic character of
  organisation formation (i.e. the structure of
  organisational networks)
• the institutional and discursive opportunity
  structure and
• the characteristics of the ethnic group in the
  host society (demographic composition, size,
  position in the socio-economic structure).

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• Three levels of analysis
• Contextual or macro Political opportunities
  structures socio-economic indicators
• Organizational survey to organisations.
• Individual survey to representative samples of
  local populations, stratified by ethnic/national
  origin. 1,200 individuals in each city, 900 of
  three different migrant origins, and 300
  autochthonous.
• Research design and structure of project

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• The project focuses on the local level.
• The LOCALMULTIDEM project includes 6 European
  cities Budapest (Hungary), London (UK), Lyon
  (France), Madrid (Spain), Milan (Italy), and
  Zurich (Switzerland).
• The LOCALMULTIDEM project is coordinated with the
  Multicultural Democracy in Europe (MDE) network
  of researchers which have carried (or are
  carrying) out similar projects in Berlin
  (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Barcelona and
  Murcia (Spain), Oslo (Norway), Amsterdam
  (Netherlands), Lisbon (Portugal), Stockholm
  (Sweden), Geneva and Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

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SETTING THE SCENE THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION

• We have selected cities with different
  concentrations of migrant groups.
• The cities also differ in the timing of migration
  flows.Some are cities of long-standing migration
  and others are newcomers to large migration
  flows.

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• Groups in each city were selected guided by
  various criteria
• Substantial size of the group within the migrant
  communities in the city.
• At least one group of long-standing migrant
  groups and one of more recent arrival.
• At least one group of Muslim background in each
  city.
• To the extent possible, we tried to have some
  groups in common across cities (also with the
  non-LOCALMULTIDEM studies).

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• The project will disseminate its results in
  various ways, among which
• Various reports and a policy blueprint for the
  European Commission.
• This conference for all stakeholders in Brussels.
• An edited volume to be published in 2009-2010.
• A special issue in a journal to be published in
  2010-2011.

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• MORE INFORMATION AT
• http//www.um.es/localmultidem
• Join the e-newsletter of the project through the
  website