Surveying ethnic minorities and immigrant populations : methodological challenges and research strategies / edited by Joan Font and Mónica Méndez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Méndez, Mónica.

Contributor:

Font, Joan, editor of compilation.

Méndez, Mónica, editor.

Series:

IMISCOE research.

IMISCOE Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Demographic surveys--Europe.

Demographic surveys.

Immigrants--Europe--Research--Methodology.

Immigrants.

Minorities--Europe--Research--Methodology.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What challenges do researchers face when surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? What are the best ways to ensure that general population surveys adequately represent minority groups? The first book to systematically address these questions, this volume analyzes more than a dozen surveys conducted in eight Western countries on topics ranging from politics to health. These case studies-which include local and national surveys with various levels of funding-offer valuable lessons about dealing with a range of methodological challenges.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: The methodological challenges of surveying populations of immigrant origin / Font, Joan / Méndez, Mónica

PART I: SAMPLING ISSUES

2. Designing high-quality surveys of ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom / Erens, Bob

3. The 2007 Spanish National Immigrant Survey (ENI): Sampling from the Padrón / Duque, Ignacio / Ballano, Carlos / Pérez, Carlos

4. Enhancing representativeness in highly dynamic settings: Lessons from the NEPIA survey / Rinken, Sebastian

PART II: FIELDWORK AND RESPONSE RATES

5. The influence of interviewers' ethnic background in a survey among Surinamese in the Netherlands / Heelsum, Anja van

6. Surveying migrants and migrant associations in Stockholm / Myrberg, Gunnar

7. Comparing the response rates of autochthonous and migrant populations in nominal sampling surveys: The LOCALMULTIDEM study in Madrid / Morales, Laura / Ros, Virginia

8. Non-response among immigrants in Denmark / Deding, Mette / Fridberg, Torben / Jakobsen, Vibeke

PART III: INCLUDING IMMIGRANTS IN GENERAL POPULATION SOCIAL SURVEYS

9. Immigration and general population surveys in Spain: The CIS surveys / Méndez, Mónica / Ferreras, Marisa / Cuesta, María

10. An evaluation of Spanish questions on the 2006 and 2008 US General Social Surveys / Smith, Tom W.

11. Under-representation of foreign minorities in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys in Switzerland / Lipps, Oliver / Laganà, Francesco / Pollien, Alexandre / Gianettoni, Lavinia

CONCLUSIONS

12. Surveying immigrant populations: Methodological strategies, good practices and open questions / Méndez, Mónica / Font, Joan

List of contributors

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-70457-3

1-04-078888-2

90-485-1918-7

9781003704577

OCLC:

855790355