Children in Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries: Their Family, National and International Context
This new Innocenti Insight presents internationally comparable data on the situation of immigrant children in affluent countries. It draws on research conducted in eight countries - Australia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States - that together include almost 40 per cent of all persons in the world living outside their countries of birth.
The study provides detailed information on the situation of these children over a broad range of dimensions, including family composition, educational background and working status of parents, and housing conditions, school and labour market participation and poverty status of children, presenting statistics broken down by region and GDP level of the country of origin.
Overall, the findings indicate areas of success in the social inclusion and civic integration of children in immigrant families in different countries. They also highlight areas in which the circumstances of the children, particularly those from low- and middle-income countries, call for further improvement.