Set t etaast st sa : pee ap t da a t p Immigrant Participation in Public Life: European

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? S?µµet??? t?? ?eta?ast?? st? ??µ?s?a ???
?µpe???e? ap? t?? ????da ?a? t??
????p?Immigrant Participation in Public Life
European Greek experiences

• ????a, 31 ?a??? 2007

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?? e?e???t??? p????aµµa POLITIS

• POLITIS Building Europe with New Citizens? An
  inquiry into civic participation of naturalized
  citizens and foreign residents in 25 countries
• Funded by European Commission 6th research
  framework, Citizens and governance in a
  knowledge-based society
• Lifespan 2004-2007
• www.uni-oldenburg.de/politis-europe

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Partners
Core Consortium 3 Research Institutions
1 NGO Partner
University of Oldenburg (Germany)
EUI (Italy)
ELIAMEP (Greece)
Churches Commission of Migrants in Europe
Network of 35 country experts for 25 EU states
(reviewed the research)
Network of 75 international student interviewers
studying in the EU
176 civically Active Immigrant Activists
(Interviewees) living in the EU
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POLITIS Research Objective

• To get a better understanding of the processes
  how immigrants become active and stay active in
  the receiving societies
• To understand encouraging and discouraging
  conditions for civic activation of immigrants in
  these processes

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Focus of the study

• First generation Born abroad, moved as youth or
  adult
• Social and political activities give a voice to
  general societal concerns or to specific concerns
  of immigrant groups, or organise solidarity and
  self-help
• High-intensity participants persons who
  continuously and substantially devote time and
  energy to social and political activities

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Research Design

• Migration and participation framework and state
  of art in 25 EU countries (2005)
• Recruitment and training of international
  students and PhD-researchers as interviewers,
  interview conduction
• Creation of European multifunctional database of
  qualitative interviews with highly active
  immigrants
• Interview Analysis

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International Interviewers

• Three interviews each (political, ethnic,
  diversify)
• Open questions on individual activity history

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Database Information about Interviewees

• 176 translations of qualitative interviews (Not
  representative)
• 24 European countries of residence and 54 Non-EU
  countries of origin
• 60 men, 40 women
• most active in migrant or ethnic organisations
• citizenship of the receiving country (91), secure
  status (43), insecure status (29)
• high educational background (139 with college or
  academic education)

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?µe??da/ Conference

• 1000 1230
• ? s?µµet??? t?? µeta?ast?? st? d?µ?s?a ???
  s?????se?? ?a? pa?ade??µata ???? ????? ?p?d????
• Immigrant participation in public life
  comparison and best practice examples among new
  hosts in EU
• 1330 1500
• ????da ? s?µµet??? t?? µeta?ast?? st? d?µ?s?a
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• Greece Immigrant civic participation
• 1530 1730
• ????da ? s?µµet??? t?? µeta?ast?? st?? p???t???
• Greece Immigrant participation in political
  life
• 1730
• S?µpe??sµata/ Conclusions