Migration and urban research

1. Migration and urban research Josef Kohlbacher and Ursula Reeger Institute for Urban and Regional Research

2. Migration and urban research At the ISR: Projects about migration and integration pertaining to urban research and projects with no such connection, In the following a selection of those with a connection to the city: • CLIP (ongoing) • interethnic neigbourhood (finished) • „guest worker houses“ (finished) • naturalization and housing situation (ongoing)

3. Migration and urban research • CLIP: Network of European Cities for Local Integration Policies for Migrants, 2006 bis 2009 • Funding: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions • 5 European research institutes (efms, CEDEM, COMPAS, IMES, ISR) • Themes: modular structure • Including field visits in the cities under investigation • Compilation of comparative reports on the European level • Recommendations for National and European policy makers and • Recommendations for local policy makers

4. Migration and urban research • At present: • Module 1: Housing (residential segregation of migrant or ethnic minority groups in European cities and access of migrants to affordable and decent housing), 20 metropoles all over EU-25 and beyond • Modul 2: Diversity policies in the city (expanded to 25 cities) • Coming up: • Modul 3: Inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue • Modul 4: Supporting entrepreneurship of migrants • Up for discussion: health, education, labour market

5. Migration and urban research • Interethnic neighbourship, 2005/2006 • Goal: an analysis of the interrelations between • socio-spatial milieus in three differenthousing categories and • the contacts and conflicts in the context of interethnic • neighbourship • Focus not only on neighbouship relations between „locals“ and migrants, but also between migrants •  of different origins, • with different social positions and • being naturalized or not. • Empirical basis: official statistics, 111 half standardized interviews

6. Causers and causes of neighbourship conflicts in the dwelling Source: Survey 2005.

7. Migration and urban research • House-wise survey of the housing situation of ex-yugoslav „guest workers“ in Vienna 1981 and 2005 • (2005/2006) • Basis: historic survey of 1981 • data on 700 houses where yugoslav guest workers were living were collected • number of households, condition of the building (several indicators: façade, hallway, courtyard) • What happened to these houses in the course of 25 years? • Are they still there? • Current status? • Structure of the inhabitants? • = Analysis of the residential distribution as well as the built environment

9. Migration and urban research • Naturalization and the housing situation in Vienna (2006/2007) • Basic question: Which influence does a possible naturalization have on • the socio-spatial structure (location in the city) and the • housing integration (standards etc.) of the population with a • migration background. • comparison between naturalized migrants and those with a foreign citizenship Data: census (population and houses), microcensus

10. Persons from selected countries in private dwellings according to the standard of the flat, naturalized and non-naturalized, 2001 Quelle: Sonderauswertung von Statistik Austria, Volks-, Gebäude und Wohnungszählung 2001, eigene Berechnungen.