EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Economic Integration, Work, Entrepreneurship. State of the Art Report Cluster B4

Economic Integration, Work, Entrepreneurship. State of the Art Report Cluster B4

Introduction

To provide comprehensive theoretical and empirical knowledge that can form a reliable basis for policy IMISCOE brings together some 400 selected, highly qualified researchers from more than 22 European institutes. Based on their wide-ranging skills and experience in international comparative research, the institutes implement an integrated, multidisciplinary, rigorously comparative research programme with Europe as its central focus.

A first step in implementing this programme has been to develop so called State of the art reports that take stock of research in the nine thematic ‘research clusters’ that IMISCOE is build around and that cross-cut personnel and activities throughout the22 institutes. ‘Economic Integration, Work, Entrepreneurship’ represents one of these research clusters.

Description

Economic issues gain more and more importance for issues linked to migration and integration in all relevant countries of immigration. Although economic issues have not always been the centrepiece of migration research in the last decades1, a lot of scientific material, literature and empirical data from different theoretical starting points has been accumulated. So it is one major task of this report to sift the milestones of this existing literature and to structure it in a way that allows us to prestructure and formulate an outlook for possible future research in the last chapter of this report.

This state-of-the-art report represents a hybrid text comprising on the one hand elements of a more general and already publishable assessment of existent terms, approaches and theories (see section 2 and 3), on the other hand a rather internal and at that time premliminary discussion of B4 current and future activities (see section 4).

Background information

This title is published within the IMISCOE publication programme as part of the Working Papers. These Working Papers are the products of ongoing work by IMISCOE members that are not (yet) ready for publication within the IMISCOE-AUP Book series. They may range from State of the Art Reports (SoAR) on worldwide research within a particular domain to more specific products of ongoing work. The Working Papers are evaluated by the editorial committee for quality and completeness before being published on the website.

Peer-reviewed publications can be found in the IMISCOE_AUP Book Series developed in co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP). One of these publications is based on the nine IMISCOE State of the Arts (of which this working paper is one): The dynamics of migration and settlement in Europe. A State of the Art. IMISCOE Joint Studies. Amsterdam: AUP, Rinus Penninx, Maria Berger and Karen Kraal (eds) (2006).

Methodology

This report is the collaborative effort of the members of the research clusters and brings together their expertise in this specific field.

EU involvement

The IMISCOE Working Papers are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme

Contact info

IMISCOE Network of Excellence
Karen Kraal (Communication Officer), tel. +31 (0)20 525 3659

Publication date

Project finished

//2004

Researcher

Michael Bommes, Holger Kolb, IMIS- Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück

Links

Visit the IMISCOE Publication Index website

Download the 'Economic Integration, Work, Entrepreneurship' Report (PDF, Eng, 654 KB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Social inclusion & integration