Institute for Public Affairs, Poland: Monitoring Active Citizenship

As Poland begins to recognise itself as a ‘country of immigration,’ policymakers and stakeholders need not only to monitor the integration process, but also to improve Poland’s policies on long‐term residence, access to nationality, and political participation and to monitor the results of these active citizenship policies on immigrant and public participation in public life. This paper for the Institute of Public Affairs explains how to monitor integration efforts. Policy actors must go beyond the EU’s core indicators for migrant integration to link these outcomes with specific policies and their broader impact on immigrant and societal integration. The proposed evaluation framework is then applied to the EU’s two core indicators on active citizenship for which data is collected and the two related MIPEX policy areas of long‐term residence and access to nationality. The paper draws on MPG’s publications in these two areas as well as the design of integration indicators...Read more