Towards a Geographic Information Systems and Data-Driven Integration Management.
(2023) In Master Thesis in Geographical Information Science GISM01 20232Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
- Abstract
- Integration management in Finland and Tampere is broad task including multiple actors and departments. To manage integration, is to coordinate the cross organizational cooperation of multiple service structures that support migrants with different kinds of services. Although integration work has traditionally been provided through the Employment & growth services,the other relevant services for integration are, amongst others, education, health & wellbeing as well as social and civic services. This work adds to the body of research that investigates
spatial accessibility to services necessary for integration and the integration levels of migrants. In this study migrant integration is measured using employment, education- and skills as... (More) - Integration management in Finland and Tampere is broad task including multiple actors and departments. To manage integration, is to coordinate the cross organizational cooperation of multiple service structures that support migrants with different kinds of services. Although integration work has traditionally been provided through the Employment & growth services,the other relevant services for integration are, amongst others, education, health & wellbeing as well as social and civic services. This work adds to the body of research that investigates
spatial accessibility to services necessary for integration and the integration levels of migrants. In this study migrant integration is measured using employment, education- and skills as well as wellbeing indicators. This study produced composite indexes for these dimensions, a holistic integration index as well as integration performance gap indexes comparing the performance between migrants and the native population in the key indicators. The study uses a GIS model that
includes information on the bus route system, integration services as well as bus stops and traffic lights to assess and quantify the accessibility of integration initiation services to the integration outcomes of migrants in Hervanta, Tampere’s City Centre and in Koillinen. Accessibility is measured in terms of travel time to integration services. Data for the GIS model was downloaded from public network databases and integration data was accessed from Statistics Finland through
the City of Tampere’s Department for International Talent Attraction and Migration. The selection of indicators was informed by experts at Statistics Finland and through questionnaires to integration experts.
The process of using a holistic, data driven, and GIS supported approach to studying migration and integration related phenomena was fruitful. When all data was gathered and processed a network model was built and analyzed using the network analyst tool in ArcGIS. A service area analysis and an OD Cost matrix analysis were conducted. It was found that most, over 17 000 migrants in Tampere have good to intermediate access (access within and around about 30 minutes) to integration services and 7% of the migrant population had poor access. The results
show that in the study group, migrants who live further away from integration services and who consequently have poorer accessibility, had better integration performance than those living in Hervanta and Tampere’s City Centre. There is a correlation between access to integration services and integration performance, however a causal relationship between the two variables is not established. (Less) - Popular Abstract
- Does the accessibility of integration services have an effect on the integration levels of migrants in Tampere?
It seems that migrant integration has become a wicked problem. Joining the ranks of health care, poverty, obesity, and other complex social issues that, according to some, cannot be solved, only tamed. Strategically, however, this is a phenomenon that decision makers can no longer afford to be ill equipped for.
The accessibility of services traditionally considered to be nonessential became a hot topic during the Covid-19 pandemic. More so the accessibility of these services for disadvantaged groups of different kinds. One group of services in this nonessential category, was integration services. This study investigates... (More) - Does the accessibility of integration services have an effect on the integration levels of migrants in Tampere?
It seems that migrant integration has become a wicked problem. Joining the ranks of health care, poverty, obesity, and other complex social issues that, according to some, cannot be solved, only tamed. Strategically, however, this is a phenomenon that decision makers can no longer afford to be ill equipped for.
The accessibility of services traditionally considered to be nonessential became a hot topic during the Covid-19 pandemic. More so the accessibility of these services for disadvantaged groups of different kinds. One group of services in this nonessential category, was integration services. This study investigates whether the accessibility to integration services has an impact on the integration levels of different migrant groups in selected neighborhoods in Tampere. To respond to this question, using a geographic information system and other software, a holistic integration index and integration performance gap index were used to compare levels of integration performance between different groups in relation to the cost of accessing integration services measured by time traveled from 3 neighborhoods in Tampere.
In this study migrant integration is measured using employment, education- and skills as well as well-being indicators. The holistic index is a combination of these indicators, and the integration performance gap index compares the performance between migrants and the native population in the same indicators. The process includes using a model that has information about the bus route system, the locations of integration services as well as bus stops and traffic lights on the routes. Integration performance was measured for migrants from Iraq, Estonia and The Former Soviet Union who live in Hervanta, Tampere’s City Centre Koillinen. The cost of travelling in minutes was calculated from these three neighborhoods and compared to the integration levels of the migrants over a 10-year period.
There were some data limitations during the study because of the availability of data from different sources and its timeliness. However, the results show that the majority of migrants in Tampere have good to intermediate access to integration services and only 7% of the migrant population had poor access. It was surprising however that, the results showed that migrants who live further away from integration services had better integration performance than those living closer to the services. Although there was a correlation between access to integration services and integration performance, a causal relationship between the two variables was not established. (Less)
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- author
- Matswetu, Takura LU
- supervisor
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- Lina Eklund LU
- organization
- course
- GISM01 20232
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Migrant Integration, Geography, Physical Geography, GIS, Network Analysis, Tampere, Accessibility, Data-driven decision making, Holistic Integration Index
- publication/series
- Master Thesis in Geographical Information Science
- report number
- 167
- language
- English
- id
- 9139982
- date added to LUP
- 2023-10-18 17:17:43
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- 2023-10-18 17:17:43
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abstract = {{Integration management in Finland and Tampere is broad task including multiple actors and departments. To manage integration, is to coordinate the cross organizational cooperation of multiple service structures that support migrants with different kinds of services. Although integration work has traditionally been provided through the Employment & growth services,the other relevant services for integration are, amongst others, education, health & wellbeing as well as social and civic services. This work adds to the body of research that investigates
spatial accessibility to services necessary for integration and the integration levels of migrants. In this study migrant integration is measured using employment, education- and skills as well as wellbeing indicators. This study produced composite indexes for these dimensions, a holistic integration index as well as integration performance gap indexes comparing the performance between migrants and the native population in the key indicators. The study uses a GIS model that
includes information on the bus route system, integration services as well as bus stops and traffic lights to assess and quantify the accessibility of integration initiation services to the integration outcomes of migrants in Hervanta, Tampere’s City Centre and in Koillinen. Accessibility is measured in terms of travel time to integration services. Data for the GIS model was downloaded from public network databases and integration data was accessed from Statistics Finland through
the City of Tampere’s Department for International Talent Attraction and Migration. The selection of indicators was informed by experts at Statistics Finland and through questionnaires to integration experts.
The process of using a holistic, data driven, and GIS supported approach to studying migration and integration related phenomena was fruitful. When all data was gathered and processed a network model was built and analyzed using the network analyst tool in ArcGIS. A service area analysis and an OD Cost matrix analysis were conducted. It was found that most, over 17 000 migrants in Tampere have good to intermediate access (access within and around about 30 minutes) to integration services and 7% of the migrant population had poor access. The results
show that in the study group, migrants who live further away from integration services and who consequently have poorer accessibility, had better integration performance than those living in Hervanta and Tampere’s City Centre. There is a correlation between access to integration services and integration performance, however a causal relationship between the two variables is not established.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
series = {{Master Thesis in Geographical Information Science}},
title = {{Towards a Geographic Information Systems and Data-Driven Integration Management.}},
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