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That status is at serious risk from proposed migration policy changes.
Surprisingly, some countries with high migration volumes, such as Luxembourg and Israel, have relatively few migration policy changes.
On one hand, this may partly reveal the difficulty in identifying migration policy changes in the earlier historical periods.
This paper outlined the rationale, considerations and principles that guided the collection and coding of migration policy changes in the new DEMIG POLICY database.
DEMIG POLICY tracks 6,505 migration policy changes in 45 countries,1 with over 90percentt of them recorded in the post-WWII period.
On average, 130 migration policy changes were recorded per country and for two thirds of the countries, between 90 and 170 changes were tracked.
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The article conceptualizes the notion of migration policy change and presents the coding system used to operationalize policy content, changes in policy restrictiveness, as well as the magnitude of policy changes.
By definition, simplification leads to a loss of nuance and complexity and should take place in a transparent manner through clearly defined and operationalized central concepts (such as migration policy, policy change and restrictiveness), conceptually informed categories and coding processes.
Given the change in migration policy and the structural changes in the Swiss economy, it is very likely that first-generation immigrants from Turkey, Albania, Kosovo or Ex-Yugoslavia in 2009 must be better educated, at all educational levels compared to those in 2000, which would explain the changes of the coefficients over time for these immigrants.
However, to our knowledge, this is the first study that investigates the impact that a change in migration policy and a consequent change in the characteristics of the immigrant population can have on the school performance of immigrant children.
European migration policies have changed drastically over the last two decades, creating large intra-European migration flows, especially from new EU member countries in Eastern Europe to old members with higher income levels in the past decade.
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