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From landing to arrival : the subtle integration of immigrants across Western Europe ; summary of main findings
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Vera Messing and Bence Ságvári From landing to arrival The subtle integration of immigrants across Western Europe Summary of main findings T he aim of the report is to map the present state as well as the process of subjective integration among immigrants in Western Europe. Structural characteristics of socioeconomic integration such as employment, education, housing, income are widely discussed in research about migrant integration. In this report we focused on subtler features of immigrants adaptation to their host countrys societies and analyze a subjective side of integration, namely how immigrants values, norms and attitudes adapt to local populations. In the analysis we use aggregated dataset from the European Social Surveys(ESS)( Round 1 2002 to Round 8 in 2016/17) which provided a sample size of close to 20thousand immigrants in 13 countries in Western Europe(40% are EU mobile and 60% TCN). In accordance with European data principles those are considered to be immigrants, who were born in a different country than they live in. The analysis is based on three aspects of subjective integration and related indicators:(1) institutional attitude convergence(measure by Institutional Accommodation Index that represents the assessment of major societal institutions including the economy, democracy, education, Health care, democracy and its institutions;(2) Perceived integration(measured by Personal Exclusion Index which reflects how much immigrants feel integrated or excluded from and discriminated by the wider society) and(3) Acculturation, which is assessed by three independent variables: language used in private situations(at home), emotional attachment to the host country and tolerance of othered groups(the case we use here is tolerance towards sexual minorities). C OUNTRIES COVERED IN THE REPORT 1