Invandrares rättsliga status, integration och livscykel mönster i Sverige

Abstract

Forskning om sambandet mellan invandrarnas olika inträdesekategorier och rättsliga status efter att de erhållit uppehållstillstånd, och deras socioekonomiska integration är både i Sverige och internationellt, splittrad och underutvecklad.
Syftet med denna studie är att fylla detta tomrum. Vi har för avsikt att undersöka hur olika rättsliga status påverkar invandrares kortsiktiga och långsiktiga integration i svenska sammanhang. Fokus kommer att ligga på arbetsmarknaden, utbildning och boende, samt på stabiliteten i familjen (äktenskap/skilsmässa frekvenser, samt interetniska äktenskap). Vi ska jämföra olika rättsliga kategorier så som de definieras av Migrationsverket (flyktingar, kvotflyktingar, tillstånd baserade på humanitära skäl, familjeåterförening, tillfälligt skydd,
arbetstillstånd osv). Olika invandrargrupper samt grupper med olika rättsliga status inom samma invandrargrupper kommer också att jämföras. Vi kommer även att studera skillnader i rättsliga status som blev resultatet av övergången till det nya asylsystemet, som har tillämpats i Sverige sedan år 2016.

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Description

Research on the relationship between immigrants’ entry categories and legal status after obtaining the residence permits and their socioeconomic integration, is fragmented and underdeveloped, both in Sweden and internationally.
The aim of this project is to fill this gap. We intend to examine how differences between immigrants’ entry categories and legal status affect immigrants’ short-term and long-term integration in the Swedish context. As far as integration indicators are concerned, the focus will be on labour market, education and housing outcomes, as well as on the family dynamics among immigrants. We intend to compare different legal categories as they are defined by the immigration board while entering the country (refugees, quote refugees, permits based on humanitarian grounds, family reunion, temporary protection, working permits etc.). Different immigrant groups
as well as groups with the different legal status within the same immigrant groups, will also be compared. We will also study legal status differences emerging from the shift to the new Swedish restrictive immigration regime, which was introduced in 2016.
In order to meet the objective and answer the research question we intend to use a mixed method study, combining quantitative and qualitative method. The former will be based on register data, i.e. tax registers and population registers administered by Statistics. The qualitative studies involve interviews with selected immigrants. The project is organized in three following subprojects:
1. Quantitative analysis of sociodemographic outcomes of legal statuses with a special focus on unsolved and temporary status;
2. Longitudinal quant-qual substudy of life-trajectories of war refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who entered Sweden with Croatian passports, in the mid of 1990s.
3. Qualitative pilot study of initial labour market, educational and housing outcomes for the Syrian refugees/asylum seekers, who arrived before and after the 2016 migration reforms.