Integration study in Frankfurt 2008

On behalf of the Office for Multicultural Affairs in Frankfurt/Main the efms conducted a new edition of the Study on the integration of immigrants and Germans in Frankfurt am Main with special focus on three selected city districts which was completed in 2001. This required a systematic, broad inventory and analysis of developments of the social conditions of migrants over time. The aim was to allocate a basis for decisions in the municipal integration policy in order to assist the municipal integration and to work against processes of disintegration on time.

2007 the City of Frankfurt decided to repeat and update the study in order to meet the concerns of demographic, social and economic developments playing a role for the integration of its inhabitants. The integration study in Frankfurt of 2008 ties up to the study of 2001 and continues to describe the current state of integration. In order to ensure the extrapolation of the study of 2001, the methodological approach and the study area were largely maintained:

1. Secondary analysis of official statistics

2. Expert interviews

3. Standardised, postal survey of second generation migrants plus a reference group without a migration background in six city districts (Gallus, Bornheim, Eckenheim, Preungesheim, Bonames, Frankfurter Berg)

4. Interviews with key personalities of the six analysed city districts

Funding: City of Frankfurt/Main
Completed: June 2008
Researcher: Judith Halisch
Publications:
Halisch, Judith: Frankfurter Integrationsstudie 2008. AMKA Frankfurt 2008, 318 pages
Halisch, Judith: Frankfurter Integrationsstudie 2008. Kurzfassung. AMKA Frankfurt 2008, 34 pages
Halisch, Judith: Frankfurter Integrationsstudie 2008. Anhang. AMKA Frankfurt 2008, 84 pages