The Immigrant Social Rights Data Set (ImmigSR). Technical Report (2., aktualisierte Ausgabe, Stand: 04.03.2025)

Abstract

This Technical Report for the Immigrant Social Rights (ImmigSR) (formerly the Migrant Social Protection, MigSP) Dataset outlines the conceptualization and operationalization of immigrant social rights, details the data collection and presents the dataset’s codebook. The data provide a set of quantitative comparative measures of de jure immigrant social rights regarding social assistance, unemployment insurance, child benefits, social pensions and employment injury benefits in 45 countries across Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania and Southeast Asia for the years 1980-2021. The second wave of the data includes several key expansions. First, the dataset was expanded to include six additional countries for the years 2000–2021. Second, data for existing countries was extended to cover the years 2019–2021. Third, two legal categories of migrants were added across all countries: seasonal migrant workers and family migrants. Fourth, three types of benefits were introduced: social pensions, employment injury benefits, and child or family benefits. ImmigSR builds on data collected during the first phase of the Collaborative Research Center Global Dynamics of Social Policy at the University of Bremen, and expands data collected within the realm of the Immigration Policies in Comparison Project (IMPIC) (Bjerre et al., 2016; Helbling et al., 2017).