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Comparative studies of migrant integration, polarization, and segregation have favored various research designs and a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. This section assesses those approaches and explains how the analysis here plays off their strengths and attenuates their weaknesses through triangulation. Five carefully selected global cities are compared: Hamburg, Barcelona, Chicago, Toronto, and Montréal. Migrant concentrations and the most straightforward segregation indices were calculated across the most apposite sub-city units in each city for which relevant data were available between 2000 and 2015. Changes in the most critical aspects of migrants’ structural integration have been gauged as well. Extensive fieldwork in the five case cities made it possible to have discussions with migrants and policymakers and to observe public spaces in key migrant neighborhoods.

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Ireland, P.R. (2017). Methods. In: Migrant Integration in Times of Economic Crisis. Europe in Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58100-2_2

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