Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations

What are the special problems involved in surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? How can we ensure adequate representation of these growing groups in general population surveys? This book is the first to address these challenges in a systematic way. Experiences from eight Western countries, involving more than a dozen surveys, are used to explore difficulties in designing these types of surveys and some of the choices made to deal with them. The rich array of cases covered gives rise to valuable lessons, from local and national surveys, from well-funded surveys and those with limited means, and on a wide variety of topics ranging from politics to health.

'Even survey methodologists and researchers who are not directly concerned with immigration as such will gain from reading the book and keeping it as reference.' -- Howard Schuman, University of Michigan 'This book is a must read for students and researchers who take serious the real technical and methodological challenges in surveying ethnic minorities and immigrant populations.' -- Marc Swyngedouw, University of Leuven 'A good introduction to survey research on migrants for researchers and students alike.' -- Albert Kraler, International Centre for Migration Policy Development> 'The book is an original and valuable [...] contribution ot the literature on survey methodology' -- N. Sander, Vienna INstitute of Demography, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital

Joan Font is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA), National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba.