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	Migrant Integration Policy Index	Segmented Assimilation Test
Camp	Migration Studies	Migration Studies
Família	Process / pipeline	Regression model
Any d'origen	2020	1993
Autor original	Thomas Huddleston, Giacomo Solano (Migration Policy Group / CIDOB)	Alejandro Portes & Min Zhou
Tipus	Expert-coded composite policy benchmarking index	Interaction-based regression test of divergent assimilation paths
Font seminal	Solano, G., & Huddleston, T. (2020). Migrant Integration Policy Index 2020. Barcelona/Brussels: CIDOB and Migration Policy Group. ISBN: 9788492511839	Portes, A., & Zhou, M. (1993). The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 530(1), 74-96.
Àlies	MIPEX, MIPEX Construction, Integration Policy Benchmarking Index, National Integration Policy Scorecard	Segmented Assimilation Analysis, Modes of Incorporation Test, Divergent Assimilation Paths Model, Portes-Zhou Second-Generation Model
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Resum	The Migrant Integration Policy Index, known as MIPEX and maintained by the Migration Policy Group and CIDOB with its 2020 edition by Solano and Huddleston, measures not how integrated immigrants are but how well a country's policies support their integration. It scores national laws and regulations across eight policy domains — labour-market mobility, family reunification, education, health, political participation, permanent residence, access to nationality, and anti-discrimination — by having country experts code each policy against a benchmark of the highest equal-treatment standard. Each indicator is scored on a simple scale anchored to legal text, domain scores are averaged, and the eight domains combine into a single composite that ranks dozens of countries on a comparable 0-to-100 scale. The result is a transparent, benchmarked scorecard of integration policy that lets researchers, governments, and advocates compare national approaches and track them over multiple editions. MIPEX measures the policy environment as an input to integration, complementing individual-level outcome measures such as survey-based integration indices.	The segmented assimilation test, formalized by Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou in 1993, examines why the children of immigrants follow strikingly different trajectories rather than converging on a single mainstream path. Against the classic assumption that each generation moves steadily upward into the white middle class, Portes and Zhou argued that the second generation can take at least three divergent routes: upward assimilation into the mainstream, downward assimilation into a marginalized underclass, or selective acculturation in which families preserve co-ethnic ties and values while advancing economically. Which route a child takes depends not on individual effort alone but on the 'modes of incorporation' — the government policy, societal reception, and co-ethnic community structure that greet the group on arrival. Empirically the theory is tested by modeling second-generation outcomes as a function of parental human capital, context of reception, and community resources, and by probing the interactions among them. The presence of significant interaction effects, rather than a single additive ladder, is the signature of segmentation. The framework reoriented immigration research toward the structural conditions that channel mobility downward as well as upward.