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The Irish Report on Integration Monitoring - 2013
Mariana Andrei - Communication Coordinator
20 August 2014
Ireland has recently published the 2013 annual report on integration monitoring.
The authors of the study - Frances McGinnity, Emma Quinn, Gillian Kingston and Philip O'Connell - have assessed immigrant integration in four key areas: employment, education, social inclusion and active citizenship. The indicators used for the integration fields allow for comparisons between EU member states and are based on the most recent quantitative data from the available polls.
The integration monitoring report has been published regularly over the last four years, which made it possible to highlight progress as well as areas for improvement. The prevalence of highly qualified workers on the labour market in Ireland, the reduction of processing time for citizenship applications and the higher success rate of these applications, as well as the improvement in immigrant children's school performance, are some of the successes of integration policies and practices. At the other end there are still deficient areas: unemployment rate, significantly higher among immigrant population and the lack of representation of this category in political decision structures.
The report's authors raise awareness upon the need to include integration monitoring in Ireland's Immigration Strategy and thus to ensure the necessary funds for the annual research, in order to assess the real impact of policies and services upon immigrants.
Source: http://esri.ie/UserFiles/publications/BKMNEXT266.pdf
The authors of the study - Frances McGinnity, Emma Quinn, Gillian Kingston and Philip O'Connell - have assessed immigrant integration in four key areas: employment, education, social inclusion and active citizenship. The indicators used for the integration fields allow for comparisons between EU member states and are based on the most recent quantitative data from the available polls.
The integration monitoring report has been published regularly over the last four years, which made it possible to highlight progress as well as areas for improvement. The prevalence of highly qualified workers on the labour market in Ireland, the reduction of processing time for citizenship applications and the higher success rate of these applications, as well as the improvement in immigrant children's school performance, are some of the successes of integration policies and practices. At the other end there are still deficient areas: unemployment rate, significantly higher among immigrant population and the lack of representation of this category in political decision structures.
The report's authors raise awareness upon the need to include integration monitoring in Ireland's Immigration Strategy and thus to ensure the necessary funds for the annual research, in order to assess the real impact of policies and services upon immigrants.
Source: http://esri.ie/UserFiles/publications/BKMNEXT266.pdf
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