How Migration Policy Shapes the Subjective Well-Being of the Non-immigrant Population in European Countries

Dear colleagues,

The International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology invites you to joint research seminar with Center for Socio-Cultural Research from series

«Culture Matters»

Alexander Tatarko  

Doctor of Sciences, Chief Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Center for Socio-Cultural Research,

Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Psychology, HSE

«How Migration Policy Shapes the Subjective Well-Being of the Non-immigrant Population in European Countries»

Seminar will be held on February 10, 2022 at 11:00

Location: Electronic platform Zoom

Working language is English

Summary of the report

Existing studies show that there is a positive association between pro-migrant integration policies and the subjective well-being of immigrants. However, there is a lack of research elucidating the relations between migrant integration policies and the subjective well-being of the host (i.e., non-migrant) population. This study is based on European data and uses multilevel analysis to clarify the relations between migrant integration policy (both as a whole and its 8 separate components such as: Labour market mobility and Family reunion) and the subjective well-being of the non-immigrant population in European countries. We examined relations between the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) for 22 countries in Europe and subjective well-being, as assessed by the European Social Survey (ESS) data. The results demonstrated that there is a positive relation between the MIPEX and subjective well-being for non-immigrants. Considering different components of the MIPEX separately, we found most of them being positively related to the subjective well-being of non-immigrants. As no negative relationship was identified between any of the eight MIPEX components and subjective well-being, policies in favour of immigrant integration also seem to benefit the non-immigrant population.