E-Module Chapter 4: Migrants and Precarious Housing

Since the turn of the century, many European countries have seen the issue of immigrant incorporation on their political agenda. Ideas of inclusion and social cohesion are highly context-specific and there is a high degree of path dependence in how nation-states imagine themselves. Nevertheless, many countries have seen how the issue of integration, even of ethnic minorities who have resided in the host country for a long time, continues to be salient. What many European countries share are attempts to monitor and evaluate integration by systematically collecting and interpreting data on different aspects of live. Housing indicators are often explicitly among these indicators. These tackle, generally speaking, issues like homelessness, the % of living in owner-occupier/secure or assured tenancy conditions, the degree of overcrowding, but also the height of rent payments as compared to the majority. 

1) Search for the most recent Integration Monitor in your country. Beware: sometimes they change names, are available for certain regions only, or have been discontinued by incoming newly elected governments.

You can find some examples here:

• Germany: https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Aktuelles/2021/2021-03-31-Bericht-zum-Integrationsmonitoring-des-Bundes.html
  
• UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-indicators-of-integration-framework-2019.