Researching migration

Here are most of the reports I published during my six years at COMPAS:

 

Reports

Cohesion and Belonging: Lessons Learned Report

Ben Gidley

Cohesion and Belonging: Review of the Evidence

Ben Gidley

UPSTREAM: The Politics of Mainstreaming Immigrant Integration Policies. Case study of the United Kingdom

Ben Gidley and Ole Jensen

Advancing Outcomes for All Minorities: Experiences of Mainstreaming Immigrant Integration Policy in the United Kingdom

Ben Gidley, Sundas Ali

Integration Disadvantage and Extremism

Ben Gidley and David Feldman (eds.)

The COMPAS Approach

Ben Gidley, Emma Newcombe and Rob McNeil

EUMIA: Researching Functioning Policy Practices in Local Integration in Europe: A Conceptual and Methodological Discussion Paper

Ben Gidley, Ole Jensen, Irene Ponzo, Emanuela Roman, Francesco Tarantino, Ferruccio Pastore

Residential Integration – Towards A Sending Country Perspective

Ben Gidley, Maria Luisa Caputo

AMICALL: Final Transnational Report Executive Summary

Ben Gidley, Elizabeth Collett

AMICALL: Final Transnational Report

Ben Gidley, Elizabeth Collett

Concordia Discors. Diversity, Cohesion and Change in Two South London Neighbourhoods

Ben Gidley, Hiranthi Jayaweera and Ole Jensen

AMICALL: Country Context Paper – UK

Ben Gidley and Hiranthi Jayaweera

Concordia Discors. London Background Report

Ben Gidley, Hiranthi Jayaweera and Ole Jensen

An Evidence Base on Migration and Integration in London

Ben Gidley and Hiranthi Jayaweera

Other Publications

Breakfast Briefing

How do local authorities deal with super-diversity?

Ben Gidley and Mette Louise Berg

Breakfast Briefing

Who are Britain’s new citizens?

Ben Gidley

Towards a transnational perspective on residential integration

As part of the European Interact project (“Researching Third Country Nationals’ Integration as a Three-way Process – Immigrants, Countries of Emigration and Countries of Immigration as Actors of Integration”), which explores migrant integration from a sending country perspective, I wrote, with Maria Luisa Caputo, a discussion paper entitled Residential Integration: Towards a Sending Country Perspective. Here is the report in the MPC repository; here is a direct link to the pdf; here is the paper on academia.edu.

Abstract
This position paper explores the key issues relating to how residential integration – a foundation dimension of migrant and minority integration – might be understood and further researched from a  “country of origin” perspective. A series of questions are addressed: Are there transnational residential strategies of migrants? Is residential integration an indicator of integration, e.g. can owning a house be an indicator of integration? Are residential patterns in the receiving country negotiated in any way by  the state of origin? And what is the role of home country institutions in assuring residential integration or separation? Looking at the nature and quality of the housing that minorities occupy, assessed in terms of factors such as tenure, overcrowding and disrepair, and at the patterns of migrant residence in receiving societies, including clustering or its absence, the paper covers the existing state of the art and methodology used in the field, before arguing for a shift to a country of origin perspective, beyond simply using country of origin as a variable in determining residential integration outcomes, but instead re-framing the issue in a transnational perspective. It introduces a new theoretical and methodological framing, shifting the emphasis from a static “social physics” to a processual, pathwayfocused approach.