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3 Analytical and Conceptual Issues
Pages 17-24

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... identified six analytical challenges related to forced migration that have implications for research design, measurement, and data collection: 1. Building analytic flexibility and responsiveness into population information systems to adapt to changing parameters of migration and emerging processes and patterns of human mobility, migration, and displacement.
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... Kraly underscored the need for analytic flexibility in data collection to support measurement that is consistent with research, policy, and programmatic questions and analysis. This requires analyses that are contextual, comparative, and differentiated along social, economic, cultural, and spatial dimensions, including dimensions of difference that have not yet been anticipated.
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... , 2012) has defined immigrant integration as "a process that helps immigrants achieve self-sufficiency, political and civic involvement, and social inclusion." Bloemraad termed this a process approach in which integration occurs over time and is headed in a particular direction.
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... Bloemraad said that one could imagine an integration framework where it would be desirable for the native-born population to move up to the immigrants' healthy state, rather than what is the empirical reality -- the immigrants moving down to the native-born population's health status. Finally, a fourth approach involves discontinuous trajectories.
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... Many people believe that migrants to the United States master English less than in the past, but the data demonstrate otherwise (see Figure 3-1)
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... She also suggested the need to understand whether theories developed to explain integration in the United States work elsewhere. During the general discussion, Holly E
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... However, she noted that differences can also evolve over generations, and she is not convinced that the benefits of having an immigrant generation with distinct skill sets complementary to the native-born population continues to be desirable for the second generation. Bloemraad said the discussion raises questions of whether integration should be considered differently from the first to the second generation, or in the first 10 years of resettlement versus a later 10-year period.
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