Immigration Policies in the Western World: New Indicators, Causes and Effects

该项目提议创建一套复杂的量化指标来衡量27个经合组织国家的移民政策。通过这一新的和创新的数据集，将研究移民政策的原因和影响。在过去的二十年里，移民政治和移民问题的研究都变得非常重要。然而，到目前为止，几乎没有任何研究对大样本国家的移民政策进行调查。这与融合和公民政策研究领域形成了鲜明对比，在这些领域收集了更系统的数据。因此，该项目的第一个目标是创建指标，使我们能够比较各种国家。不仅是正式的规定将被考虑在内。还将研究控制机制和法规的执行情况。此外，将区分劳动力移徙、家庭团聚、寻求庇护者/难民和共同国民的探望权四个领域。这种数据集的可获得性开启了全新的研究视角，并允许以更系统的方式测试已经存在的论点。最后，将分析移民政策对移民模式和移民融合的影响。我们将能够测试移民政策在多大程度上导致了预期的产出。通过这样做，将调查移民政策的有效性和西方国家的控制能力。

This project proposes to create a set of sophisticated quantitative indicators to measure immigration policies in 27 OECD countries. By means of this new and innovative dataset the causes and effects of immigration policies will be studied. Over the last two decades both immigration politics and research on immigration issues have become very important. So far, there is however hardly any study that investigates immigration policies over a large sample of countries. This stands in stark contrast to the study fields of integration and citizenship policies where more systematic data have been collected. Therefore, the first aim of this project is to create indicators that enable us to compare a large variety of countries. Not only the formal regulations will be accounted for. Control mechanisms and the implementation of regulations will also be studied. Moreover, the four fields of labor migration, family reunification, asylum seekers/refugees and access rights for co-nationals will be differentiated. The availability of such a dataset opens completely new research perspectives and allows testing already existing arguments in a more systematic way. Finally, the effects of immigration policies on migration patterns and the integration of immigrants will be analyzed. We will be able to test to what extent immigration policies lead to the intended output. By doing so, the effectiveness of immigration policies and the control capacity of Western states will be investigated.