Migration, integration and anti-discrimination policies- PolMig

For the period 2024-2029, the work of PolMig researchers is structured around two thematic areas. STRAND 1: The construction of policies and their effects. It is divided into two lines of research: 1) Anti-discrimination policies. Following on from the Global-Race project (ANR, 2016-2021), publications will focus on the content of anti-discrimination policies, as well as the statistical categories and tools they mobilize to be implemented. The evaluation of these policies, and their articulation with integration policies, will be the focus of a medium-term research program. 2) Migration and reception policies. This area includes several projects on the analysis of selection policies to encourage overseas migration (ANR MIGRINDOM), the reception of refugees (in particular, the implementation of a professional integration program run by the city of Paris), and the effects of migration policies on the trajectories of immigrants and their children through the study of family formation and intentions to remigrate. STRAND 2. Administrative trajectories of migrants. This line of research looks at the uses of administrative categories and their impact on the trajectories of the people concerned. While section 1 rests partly on historical and qualitative data, the following sections are largely based on statistical analysis of large surveys that the unit contributed to collect (TeO2, MFV-Mayotte, TEMPER). 1) Migrants' administrative trajectories. Using the cases of family reunification and access to nationality, this area focuses on the administrative trajectories themselves, questioning immigrants' “awareness of the law”, their rationale for using one procedure rather than another, and their negotiation processes with the administration. 2) Socio-demographic effects of migrants’ legal status upon arrival. This section looks at the living conditions of migrants in France, mainly in terms of health outcomes and fertility practices. 3) Socio-economic consequences of immigrant entry conditions. This section focuses on the employment status and other socio-economic outcomes of immigrants, and includes three case studies: France, Italy and Sweden. 4) Legal status and return migration. This area of research builds on the work undertaken as part of the European Temper project on the long-term effects of irregularity in Europe on the reintegration of migrants returning to Africa.