The platform aims to offer a range of Information, adopting a comparative approach. In particular:
Policies/Rights
- Employment: rights, quality, rate, etc.
- Citizenship/Naturalisation
- Long-term residence
- Family reunification
- Education
- Linguistic support
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Social care
- Financial conditions/wages
- Feeling of belonging/Discrimination
- Well-being at the place of residence
- Integration prospects of the place of residence
Migrant users profile
- Gender
- Age group
- Rural/Urban background
- Educational attaintment
- Vocational training attaintment
- Language skills
- Prior professional experience
- Family status
- Past migration experience/Ties with a specific place-country
- Stage in the life course (e.g. parent of children in early childhood)
- Existence of family/social networks
- Specific healthcare needs
- Reason for migration (e.g. labour/family/inter. protection)
- Driving capability/license
- Personal preferences/needs (e.g. slow pace of life; nature)
- Place of origin
- Religious affiliation
- Legal status/administrative situation
Structural features of the place of settlement
- Spatial typology (city; town; rural settlement)
- Access to Services of General Interest (SGIs)
- Demographic trends
- Labour market/Main economic activities
- Housing (e.g. affordable, findable)
- Local society (e.g. welcoming, previous emigration and immigration experience)
- Diaspora information (e.g. size, engagement level)
- Local actors’ financial resources; political commitment; administrative capacity
Users/Target audience
- Migrants
- Researchers/data community
- Social services
- Civil society/non-profit organisations
- Policy-makers
Front-end version functionalities
Keyword search, Simple & Advanced filtering based on the settlement place features and the user’s profile, Sorting
Languages
The platform will offer Information in multiple languages with the assistance of Google translation automatic translations.