Over de integratie van migranten in Nederland en de actualiteit van het integratieconcept

Professor Jaco Dagevos is benoemd als bijzonder hoogleraar Integratie en Migratie aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. De leerstoel is gevestigd bij de afdeling Sociologie van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen (FSW) en is ingesteld door het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP). Jaco Dagevos houdt zich bezig met vraagstukken over integratie en migratie. Zijn wetenschappelijk onderzoek richt zich onder andere op de integratie van migranten van Turkse, Marokkaanse, Surinaamse en Antilliaanse origine. Daarnaast onderzoekt hij de achtergronden van huwelijksmigratie, de oorzaken van arbeidsmigratie vanuit Midden- en Oost-Europa en discriminatie van migranten op de arbeidsmarkt. Resultaten van het onderzoek van de leerstoel moeten bijdragen aan wetenschappelijke en beleidsdiscussies over het verloop en achtergronden van integratie en migratie. Jaco Dagevos (1965) is als hoofd van de sector Onderwijs, Minderheden en Methodologie werkzaam bij het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau. Hij studeerde sociologie aan de Erasmus Universiteit waar hij in 1998 ook promoveerde op een studie over de beroepsloopbanen van migranten. Hij is sinds 2000 verbonden aan het SCP, daarvoor werkte hij bij het IVA in Tilburg en het Instituut voor Sociologisch-Economisch Onderzoek van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

The Importance of Resources and Security in the Socio-Economic Integration of Refugees. A Study on the Impact of Length of Stay in Asylum Accommodation and Residence Status on Socio-Economic Integration for the Four Largest Refugee Groups in the Netherlands

In many European countries, including the Netherlands, refugees stay in asylum accommodation pending a decision on their asylum request. While it seems evident that the lack of resources and insecurity about the future experienced during this stay will impact refugees' subsequent ability to integrate with the host society, so far this has hardly been studied in an extensive way. Also, the type of residence status granted can be a source of insecurity that impacts their integration. Previous studies on refugee integration have already shown the impact of pre-migration stressors such as traumatic experiences on mental health and integration. In this study, we use a large-scale dataset containing detailed information on about 4,000 refugees to show that also post-migration stressors affect mental health and hinder the socio-economic integration of the four largest refugee groups in the Netherlands: Afghan, Iraqi, Iranian and Somali

Should I stay or should I go? What we can learn from working patterns of Central and Eastern European labour migrants about the nature of present-day migration.

In this paper, we examine the extent to which the employment histories of Central and Eastern EU (CEE) labour migrants exhibit patterns of temporary, circular or settlement migration. We expect to find these diverse and changeable patterns following the phenomenon of ‘New European Migration’. By distinguishing between working patterns we are able to describe actual migration behaviour to the destination country more accurately. We use wage data to track a cohort of all employees who worked in the Netherlands in June 2010, for a period of five years. Our findings show that the majority of CEE labour migrants stopped working as employees in the Netherlands within five years, mostly after an uninterrupted single period of employment. In addition, a third of CEE labour migrants engage in settlement migration, working continuously in the Netherlands for a long period. Only a very small proportion can be considered as circular migrants. This contradicts our expectations regarding New European Migration, that there would be fewer labour migrants with uninterrupted periods of work and more labour migrants working for shorter periods

Explaining differences in unemployment benefit takeup between labour migrants and Dutch native workers

The large increase in Eastern European migrants entering the Dutch labour market has led to concerns about their potential claim on Dutch unemployment benefits. We use a decomposition analysis to investigate differences in uptake of unemployment benefits between migrants and native Dutch employees by analysing register data for all employees in the Netherlands in 2015. The results show that Eastern European migrants, similar to other migrants, receive unemployment benefit more often than native Dutch employees. This difference can be largely ascribed to job characteristics. The inclusion of unemployment risk in the analysis reveals that non-working migrants are much less likely to receive unemployment benefits than Dutch natives

Syrian-born children with a refugee background in Rotterdam. A child-centred approach to explore their social contacts and the experienced social climate in the Netherlands.

Purpose. This article explores how newly-arrived children with a refugee background describe their everyday lives in the Netherlands, with a focus on how they perceive their peer relations and the broader social climate in the host country. Methods. In this case study, focus groups were conducted with 46 Syrian-born children with a refugee background, ranging between the ages of 8 to 17 years old. All participants have a temporary residence permit and live in Rotterdam together with (part of) their family. A board game was developed as a research tool to stimulate children to share their perspectives on their friends and experiences with inclusion and exclusion. Results. An important finding is that all of the children have friends in the Netherlands. The majority of their friends have an Arab background, and different reasons for this composition are discussed. Furthermore, although all of the children expressed that they feel welcome in Dutch society, they had also encountered exclusion, which generates emotional responses. Conclusion. Using a theoretical boundary perspective, we show that children are involuntarily subjected to symbolic boundary drawing by others, while taking part in boundary work themselves too. Within the domains of the children’s social networks and the broader social climate in the Netherlands, we further examined the relations between symbolic and social boundaries

Stappen vooruit

Statushouders in Rotterdam maken goede vooruitgang in hun integratieproces. Ten opzichte van ruim een jaar eerder, scoren zij in 2019 beter op de beheersing van de Nederlandse taal, zijn zij vaker zelfredzaam en aan het werk en voelen ze zich meer thuis in Nederland