Integration: knowing, measuring, evaluating 17-18 giugno 2013

1. The local approach for integration
Luca Di Sciullo | National Council of Economy and Labour
Giancarlo Blangiardo | Università Bicocca
Raffaele Bracalenti | Iprs
Corrado Bonifazi | Irpps
Cinzia Conti | Istat
Salvatore Strozza | Università Federico II

2. Integration as local phenomenon
1. Integration policies at local level: the complex puzzle of
Italy
2. Official statistical data: opportunities and limits
3. Rich landscape of experiences (research and action)
4. Next step: harmonization and systematization of the
experiences
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3. Official statistics
Traditional sample surveys show limits for the analysis at local
level. Recent experiences carried out with Ministry of Interior as
example to overcome the difficulties in order to enlighten also
specific territorial areas
Administrative data are not yet fully exploited (growing number
of sources)
Need to create a system for monitoring integration at local level
in a systematic approach
Relevant specific experiences to consider
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4. National Council for Economy and Labour:
a ten years experience
-Annual Reports based on administrative (or aggregated) data:
“objective” factors of integration
-15 statistical indicators, grouped into 3 thematic indeces
(composite indicators):
• Territorial attractivity
• Social inclusion
• Labour market insertion
- every indicator and index broken down into the 3 Italian main territorial
(and/or admin) levels: 5 national areas (territorial), 20 regions and 103
provinces (admin)
- For every indicator and index: ranking lists (one for each territorial
level) ordering territorial units from the one with the “best” value, at the
top, to the one with the “worst” value, at the bottom
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5. National Council for Economy and Labour:
a ten years experience
- 2 different rankings, for each indicator and index:
•“absolute” method: territorial ranking based on data referring to
foreign population only
•“comparative” method: territorial ranking based on the gap between
the foreigners’ and the natives’ data
- Final index measuring the potential for integration of every Italian
territorial unit, based on the only indeces of Social inclusion and Labour
market insertion (as the more “structural” dimensions of integration),
using a standardization method (transforming the original values into
scores from 1 to 100)
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6. ISMU experience: the “Integrometro”
Integration index: an empirical
research on migration in Italy
Survey 2009: representative
random sample of 12,000 migrants
living in Italy (Centre Sampling
Method) in 32 territorial units (20
local research teams)
(cultural, social, political and
economic integration)
Provinces involved in the survey
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7. Measuring integration:
from aggregated indicators to individual integration
scores
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Indicators selected in according to a work definition of integration
and grouped into 4 main indeces:
• Index of cultural integration (knowledge and use of the Italian
language, comprehension of informations from media, self-
percepted welfare conditions, sense of belonging, etc.)
• Index of social integration (friendship relations, association
membership, Italian lifestyle liking, etc.)
• Index of political integration (legal status, importance assigned
to citizenship, registration on the local lists of residents, etc.)
• Index of economic integration (housing conditions, work
conditions, banking system participation, etc.)
• INDEX OF GENERAL INTEGRATION
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8. Territorial Council for Integration
That is why the Consolidation Act on Immigration provided for the
establishment of Territorial Councils for Immigration whose tasks
consist in analyzing the needs and promoting actions to be
implemented at local level.
The Territorial Councils are made up of representatives from the
relevant local administrations of the State, of the Regions, of Local
Bodies, of Organizations and Associations involved in assisting
migrants, of workers’ and employers’ organizations.
The Territorial Councils for Immigration, which are headed by the
Prefect, are functional for the development of a link between central
and peripheric areas which would improve the knowledge system
and promote the most appropriate operational decisions in order to
remove the obstacles in the process of economic, social and
cultural integration of migrants
(FIFTH EMN ITALY REPORT, 2012)
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9. Territorial Council for Integration
These bodies are expected to be the most appropriate means to
manage the coordination between public and private structures
dealing with migration and integration, and to provide support for
the Government
In their own area of expertise, the Territorial Councils are the
relevant bodies for migration, integration and social cohesion
issues, into which both institutional and non-institutional subjects
work together in order to promote integration programmes
They are in charge of monitoring the territorial needs as well as
promoting and coordinating projects on the basis of a functional
connection between the central/national and the local level
(Regions, Provinces, Municipalities and Social Organizations)
(FIFTH EMN ITALY REPORT, 2012)
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10. Integration at the local level:
how to link policy making and researches
Individuation of local characteristics and needs
Individuation of sustainable policies/local governance
Towards a system for monitoring policies
Statistics + policy makers
The local approach for integration | Luca Di Sciullo | Rome 17 - 18 June 2013