STATISTICAL SOURCES ON MIGRANT POPULATION AND INEQUALITY
In order to obtain more detailed and reliable information on inequalities experienced by migrants, it could be advisable to: • •
Improve sources such as the LFS, with the annual collection of a large number of variables for a larger (that is, more representative) population. Develop ad-hoc surveys on migrant population and issues of inequality and integration.
On the other hand, this kind of development would raise serious concerns in terms of privacy, data protection and, more generally, about the expansion of a surveillance state, with serious implications for the lives of individual migrants. As illustrated by Bolton, the collection of good data about migrants will depend to a great extent on the degree of trust built up between migrants and the national and local state.
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