INTEGRATE

Governments across the globe are still struggling to cope with repeated and persistent humanitarian emergencies. For many asylum seekers and refugees, the refugee crisis has turned into an integration crisis with many still waiting for decisions on their asylum applications and struggling to access jobs and a social network in their new home countries. Against this background, we have been conducting much needed research into the impact of various asylum and integration policies in Europe.

The goal of INTEGRATE is to provide systematic evidence that identifies the causal effects of the key parameters of the asylum process on the short and long-term economic, political and social integration of refugees, their families, and children in selected European countries.

By using causal research designs and recent advances in data science to comprehensively evaluate the asylum process in Europe, we have established actionable evidence base that can be used to redesign the asylum process to improve outcomes for both refugees and host societies. Our findings provide answers to the complex and urgent question of how to best facilitate the integration of increasing numbers or refugees, while mitigating political conflict and native backlash in host communities.