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Freiwilligentätigkeit in der Schweiz –empirische Evidenz aus dem Schweizer Freiwilligen-Monitor
Do Integration Policies Affect Immigrants' Voluntary Engagement? An Exploration at Switzerland's Subnational Level
This paper investigates whether integration policies influence immigrants' propensity to volunteer, the latter being an important element of immigrants' integration into the host society. By distinguishing different categories of integration policies at Switzerland's subnational level and applying a Bayesian multilevel approach, our results suggest varying policy effects: while policies fostering socio-structural rights enhance immigrants' propensity to volunteer, we observe a negative curvilinear relationship between cultural rights and obligations and immigrants' volunteerism implying that a combination of cultural entitlements and obligations is most conducive to immigrants' civic engagement.
Migrant children in Switzerland - how school and integration policies affect their educational chances
Freiwilligentätigkeit in der Schweiz - empirische Evidenz aus dem Schweizer Freiwilligen-Monitor
Cantonal variations of integration policy and their impact on immigrant educational inequality
Migration policy regimes are mainly analysed from an international comparative perspective, whereas subnational policy variations, although they are particularly pronounced in federal states, remain largely neglected. By transferring an international concept of integration policy to Switzerland’s cantonal level, we show that cantonal variations of integration policy are not only considerable but even occasionally exceed international variance. Subsequent outcome analyses further undermine the relevance of cantonal integration polices, suggesting that liberal and culturally pluralist policies moderate immigrant educational inequality in schools. As the results of our Bayesian multilevel analyses show, a combination of different policy aspects representing inclusive cantonal integration policies has the greatest potential to ameliorate immigrants’ equal opportunities in school. Accounting for immigrants’ heterogeneity in terms of linguistic and social background moreover reveals that integration policy differently affects various groups of immigrants.