Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration

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The Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration (SVR) was founded in 2008 by eight foundations as an "independent and scientific body" to research questions of integration and migration . The council institutionalized in the legal form of a GmbH has its seat in Berlin .

structure

At the initiative of the Mercator Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation , the Bertelsmann , Freudenberg , Hertie , Körber , Vodafone and Zeit Foundations all participated in the establishment. The financing by the private foundations was initially planned for 10 years and was extended again - also due to the increasing importance of the topic. Since 2020, the Federal Ministry of the Interior has been funding for construction and home with up to 1.1 million euros p. a. the preparation of the annual report and the integration barometer that appears every 2 years. For the first time, all 16 countries are participating in the financing of the integration barometer, which enables detailed analyzes of the integration climate in Germany down to the country level.

The sponsoring foundations

Since its inception, the SVR has been funded by the following foundations:

people

In addition to the chairwoman, Petra Bendel , the Advisory Council includes (as of July 2019) eight other scientists with a focus on integration and migration research:

Former members are:

Some of the members also belong to the Migration Council.

Annual report

Since 2010, the SVR has been publishing an annual report on integration and migration every year. This includes the integration barometer , an empirical survey for which people with and without a migration background in Germany are surveyed. Part of the study is the integration climate index , which expresses the respondents' experiences and attitudes to various areas of integration on a scale from 0 (very poor) to 4 (very good). Structural data are not taken into account in the index. The index is collected every two years and is broken down into different groups of respondents.

A total of 5,600 people in the Stuttgart, Rhine-Main and Rhine-Ruhr regions were interviewed for the 2010 annual report. No surveys were carried out in eastern Germany because only 9 percent of migrants live there.

Based on the data, the 2010 integration climate index for the majority society was 2.77 and for immigrants it was 2.93. In the self-assessment of the chairman of the SVR in 2010, the integration was thus more positive than expected.

From 2015, the integration climate index has shown values ​​on a scale from 0 (= very negative) to 100 (= very positive). Personal experiences and assessments of people with and without a migration background were determined in four areas that are central to integration: work, education, social relationships and neighborhood. "The higher the value, the better the integration climate is assessed. Values ​​over 50 mean a tendency to be positive, values ​​below 50 a tendency to be negative."

The integration climate in 2015 for people without a migration background was 65.4; for people with a migration background at 69.0.

The integration climate in 2017/2018 for people without a migration background was 63.8; for people with a migration background at 68.9.

SVR research area

The SVR research area was founded in November 2011 to complement the work of the Expert Council. The research department at the Expert Council carries out independent, application-oriented research projects on the subject of integration and migration. The project-based studies are dedicated to emerging developments and issues. One focus of the research projects is on education. The basic funding is provided by the Mercator Foundation.

reception

In May 2011, Necla Kelek criticized the FAZ for the fact that the Council of Economic Experts pursued a policy based on ideological criteria and did not conduct scientific research. In this context, she referred to the Council of Economic Experts as “the Politburo of German migration policy ” and its former chairman Klaus Bade as its “General Secretary”. In addition, she described the 2011 annual report as “supposedly representative”, since 80.5% of the respondents had a migration background and only 19.5% belonged to the majority population. Klaus Bade responded to the accusations in the same newspaper ten days later, among other things with the note that the representativeness of the sample would be established by the “standard procedure of quantitative empirical social research”, weighting .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Sabine am Orde: Integration in Germany - Much better than its reputation . In: taz, May 19, 2010.
  2. ↑ BMI supports the creation of the integration barometer 2020. Accessed on January 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Immigration Society 2010. (PDF; 3.3 MB) March 2010, archived from the original on December 14, 2010 ; Retrieved May 20, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Michael Kieffer: Nice weather between cultures . In: Spiegel Online, May 19, 2010.
  5. ↑ Andrea Dernbach: Integration better than its reputation . In Zeit online, May 20, 2010.
  6. ↑ a b Advisory Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration: Stable Climate in the Integration Republic of Germany: SVR Integration Barometer 2018 . SVR report 2018_1, 2018, p. 6-8 ( svr-migration.de [PDF]).
  7. ↑ a b Necla Kelek: Professor Bade gives the anti-Sarrazin. In: FAZ . May 9, 2011, accessed May 9, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Klaus Bade: I don't head any Politburo. In: FAZ . May 19, 2011, accessed May 20, 2011 .