LIMITS: socio-economic context, life-courses and strategies developed by immigrants

<body> <h1>socio-economic context, life-courses and strategies developed by immigrants</h1> <p>This project’s major goal is to identify the <b>causal factors that influence decisions</b> made by immigrants and their descendants regarding the different strategies they choose to improve their personal well-being. We aim to test various models at differing levels of aggregation, side by side, adopting well-established tools of decision modelling and a uniform Europe-wide dataset comprising biographical, local and national data, adapted to the specificity of the proposed research questions.</p> <h1>database, legal, economic, social and political variables</h1> <h2>gain a unique database</h2> <p>of up to 3600 cases through collecting life course data of individual immigrants and ethnic minority group members in the post-migration phase in cities in seven selected countries;</p> <h2>legal, economic, social, political, and biographical variables</h2> <p>analyse in-depth and identify the degree to which legal, economic, social, political, and biographical variables affect the quality of life and in particular the <b>timing and the outcomes of events and status passages</b> of immigrants and ethnic minority members in the respective host societies. Moreover, the individual perception of threat and risk on the one hand and well being on the other hand will be correlated with key economic factors and the politico-legal frameworks in the host-societies.</p> <h2>opportunity structure and strategies</h2> <p>identify decisions more or less consciously made by immigrants in order to cope with the challenges they face, <b>and strategies</b> they develop in order to overcome barriers and to improve their respective opportunity structures</p> <h2>immigrants to become politically active</h2> <p>offer a framework to <span class="rot">comprehend and evaluate the readiness of immigrants to become politically active in the host society which will allow policy makers at all levels of government and NGOs to better understand and react more adequately to the emergence of political actions, however they might occur, by immigrants.</p> </span> </body>