EUROFOUND report uses MIPEX: Quality of life in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods

Many European countries have experienced a high level of immigration from all parts of the world in the past two decades and the population of visible minority ethnic groups has grown rapidly. Neighbourhoods with a high percentage of minority ethnic groups are expected to be relatively disadvantaged in social and economic terms.
This report presents the results of a programme of research that analyses the quality of life in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in EU15 countries based on the 2007 European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS). This survey offers a wide-ranging view of the diverse social realities in the EU by posing questions on issues such as employment, income, education, housing, family, health, work–life balance, life satisfaction and the perceived quality of society as well as on migration and inter-ethnic issues, which are of particular relevance to this report.....
...EU countries take different approaches, with the French republican tradition not recognising cultural differences and placing a strong emphasis on the equality of citizens; Germany conferring citizenship rights upon people of German ‘ethnic’ origin while treating minorities as permanent foreigners; and the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden adopting a broadly multicultural approach (though the Netherlands has recently moved away from multiculturalism and towards assimilation). The Migration Policy Index summarises the integration policies of EU countries. The index ranges from 0 to 100, and the more liberal the policy regime, the higher the score. Table 1 presents scores for the countries considered in this report....
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