Conditionality of legal status and immigrant occupational attainment in western Europe

To operationalise our measure of citizenship conditionality we build on the data collected by the MIPEX project for European migration policies in 2006 (Niessen et al, 2007). In the project’s own words ‘MIPEX measures policies to integrate migrants in 25 EU Member States and three non-EU countries. It uses over 140 policy indicatorsto create a rich, multi-dimensional picture of migrants’ opportunities to participatein European societies’ (Niessen et al, 2007, x). 
Drawing on the policy area associated with the conditions attached to securing citizenship status for 16 countries of western Europe it was possible to construct an index of conditionality utilising the country by country policy indicators for 2007, made available for download on the MIPEX project’s website.
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