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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION
The Integration of Immigrants in Athens: Developing indicators and Statistical measures.
SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Martin Baldwin-Edwards
PUBLISHER
Mediterranean Migration Observatory
PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION
Athens, 2010
TYPE OF PUBLICATION
Report
LANGUAGE OF THE DOCUMENT
English
LANGUAGE OF THE REVIEW
English
THEMATIC AREA
Integration of immigrants students
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS
1) RATIONALE OF THIS REPORT
2) ISSUES IN MONITORING IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION
(a) The concept of immigrant integration
(b) Who is an immigrant?
(c) EU policy on integration of immigrants
(d) Monitoring immigrant integration
3) SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION
(a) The European experiences of immigration and integration
(b)
Ethnic entrepreneurship as
an integration strategy
(c)
Recent comparative approaches to immigrant integration
(d) Integration policy choices
(e) Characterising the process of integration
4) A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS FOR STATISTICAL AND QUALITATIVE DATA
5) INDICATORS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION IN
ATHENS
(a) Legal integration
(b) Labour market
(c) Housing and urban issues
(d) Education and language skills
(e) Health and social services
(f) Social and cultural integration
(g) Nationality, civic citizenship and respect for diversity
6) CONCLUSIONS
COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION
The purpose of this Report
is essentially threefold:
• To present available statistical and other indi
cators of immigrant integration in Athens
• To devise a framework of analysis fo
r the evaluation of such indicators
• To identify areas where the data are either missing or of low quality
Name of Compiler
Spiros Sirmakessis
Name of Institution
Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece
Role in the institution
Professor

20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.