Link4Skills Migrant Survey

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Link4Skills Migrant Survey

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Frequently Asked Questions

The goal of this study is to learn more about the intentions of people who have moved to another country to stay in the country where they live now or return to their home country. We are especially interested in people who followed further education after finishing high school and who are living in Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. The results will help create policies to address skill shortages and mismatches through encouraging migration.

To reach this goal, it is very important to consider the experiences and views of people who have moved internationally themselves. We would be grateful for your participation if you: 1) Have moved away from your usual home outside the European Union to live in Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland or the Netherlands 2) Have completed post-secondary education, for example vocational, professional and academic training.

If you agree to participate below, you will be asked questions about your move to the country of destination as well as your intentions to remain living there or return to your country of origin. In addition, you will be asked to fill in some demographic characteristics. The total duration will be around 20 minutes.

This letter gives information to enable you to decide on participation or not. Take your time to read it carefully and consider completely voluntary participation. You have the right to withdraw from the study at any time, without any negative consequences or having to provide an explanation. Until you submit the survey, you can still decide not to take part in the research. If you stop, your data will be deleted. After you click ‘send’, we cannot trace what data you have shared with us anymore.

During the survey, you may be reminded of negative experiences in the country of destination, for example discrimination and consequences for well-being. If you need emotional support or a listening ear, you can contact the following organisations in the destination countries: 

The Netherlands: Slachtofferhulp Nederland
Hotline: +31 88 746 00 00
Website: https://www.slachtofferhulp.nl

Germany: Faire Integration
Email: ffi@iq-consult.de
Website: https://www.faire-integration.de

Poland: Polish Migration Forum Foundation
Hotline: +48 22 11 000 85
Website: https://forummigracyjne.org/en/front-page/

Austria: Psychosocial service
Hotline: +43 1 4000 5300
Website: https://psd-wien.at/sorgenhotline-wien

Canada: Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime
Hotline: +1 866 481 8429
Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/office-federal-ombudsperson-victims-crime.html

There are no direct benefits or rewards for participating in this study. Indirectly, participation will lead to a better understanding of migration experiences and decisions of individuals with post-secondary education, which will be used to inform policymaking to facilitate migration and improve services for migrants.

We will ask you about the following personal data: age, gender, country of birth, nationality, cultural/ ethnic background, and occupation. We will not ask any direct identifiers from you.

We store all your data securely. Only persons involved in the research can see the data. We will write articles about the results of the study, which will be published in (academic) journals or books. The results will be accessible by anyone and shared on the Link4Skills website. They will also be fed into the AI-Assisted Link4Skills Navigator, a knowledge-based expert system supporting decision-making processes for fair skill flows across countries.

Your data will be kept for 10 years after completion of the research. We keep the data so that other researchers can verify that the research was conducted correctly.

Anonymized research data can be used in other research. We ensure that the data cannot be traced back to you by combining relevant variables, for example age, country of origin, and occupation.

If you have any questions about the study or your privacy rights, such as accessing, changing, deleting, or updating your data, please contact Dr. Julia Reinold (reinold@essb.eur.nl).
Do you have a complaint or concerns about your privacy? Please email the Data Protection Officer (fg@eur.nl) or visit www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl. (T: +31 88 – 1805250)

This research has been reviewed and approved by the DPAS Research Ethics Review Committee of Erasmus University Rotterdam (approval number: ETH2324-0932). This committee ensures that research participants are protected. If you would like to know more about the DPAS Research Ethics Review Committee, please contact dpas-ethics@essb.eur.nl

Frequently Asked Questions

The goal of this study is to learn more about the intentions of people who have moved to another country to stay in the country where they live now or return to their home country. We are especially interested in people who followed further education after finishing high school and who are living in Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. The results will help create policies to address skill shortages and mismatches through encouraging migration.

To reach this goal, it is very important to consider the experiences and views of people who have moved internationally themselves. We would be grateful for your participation if you: 1) Have moved away from your usual home outside the European Union to live in Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland or the Netherlands 2) Have completed post-secondary education, for example vocational, professional and academic training.

If you agree to participate below, you will be asked questions about your move to the country of destination as well as your intentions to remain living there or return to your country of origin. In addition, you will be asked to fill in some demographic characteristics. The total duration will be around 20 minutes.

This letter gives information to enable you to decide on participation or not. Take your time to read it carefully and consider completely voluntary participation. You have the right to withdraw from the study at any time, without any negative consequences or having to provide an explanation. Until you submit the survey, you can still decide not to take part in the research. If you stop, your data will be deleted. After you click ‘send’, we cannot trace what data you have shared with us anymore.

During the survey, you may be reminded of negative experiences in the country of destination, for example discrimination and consequences for well-being. If you need emotional support or a listening ear, you can contact the following organisations in the destination countries: 

The Netherlands: Slachtofferhulp Nederland
Hotline: +31 88 746 00 00
Website: https://www.slachtofferhulp.nl

Germany: Faire Integration
Email: ffi@iq-consult.de
Website: https://www.faire-integration.de

Poland: Polish Migration Forum Foundation
Hotline: +48 22 11 000 85
Website: https://forummigracyjne.org/en/front-page/

Austria: Psychosocial service
Hotline: +43 1 4000 5300
Website: https://psd-wien.at/sorgenhotline-wien

Canada: Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime
Hotline: +1 866 481 8429
Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/office-federal-ombudsperson-victims-crime.html

There are no direct benefits or rewards for participating in this study. Indirectly, participation will lead to a better understanding of migration experiences and decisions of individuals with post-secondary education, which will be used to inform policymaking to facilitate migration and improve services for migrants.

We will ask you about the following personal data: age, gender, country of birth, nationality, cultural/ ethnic background, and occupation. We will not ask any direct identifiers from you.

We store all your data securely. Only persons involved in the research can see the data. We will write articles about the results of the study, which will be published in (academic) journals or books. The results will be accessible by anyone and shared on the Link4Skills website. They will also be fed into the AI-Assisted Link4Skills Navigator, a knowledge-based expert system supporting decision-making processes for fair skill flows across countries.

Your data will be kept for 10 years after completion of the research. We keep the data so that other researchers can verify that the research was conducted correctly.

Anonymized research data can be used in other research. We ensure that the data cannot be traced back to you by combining relevant variables, for example age, country of origin, and occupation.

If you have any questions about the study or your privacy rights, such as accessing, changing, deleting, or updating your data, please contact Dr. Julia Reinold (reinold@essb.eur.nl).
Do you have a complaint or concerns about your privacy? Please email the Data Protection Officer (fg@eur.nl) or visit www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl. (T: +31 88 – 1805250)

This research has been reviewed and approved by the DPAS Research Ethics Review Committee of Erasmus University Rotterdam (approval number: ETH2324-0932). This committee ensures that research participants are protected. If you would like to know more about the DPAS Research Ethics Review Committee, please contact dpas-ethics@essb.eur.nl

The goal of this study is to learn more about the intentions of people who have moved to another country to stay in the country where they live now or return to their home country. We are especially interested in people who followed further education after finishing high school and who are living in Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. The results will help create policies to address skill shortages and mismatches through encouraging migration.

To reach this goal, it is very important to consider the experiences and views of people who have moved internationally themselves. We would be grateful for your participation if you: 1) Have moved away from your usual home outside the European Union to live in Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland or the Netherlands 2) Have completed post-secondary education, for example vocational, professional and academic training.

If you agree to participate below, you will be asked questions about your move to the country of destination as well as your intentions to remain living there or return to your country of origin. In addition, you will be asked to fill in some demographic characteristics. The total duration will be around 20 minutes.

This letter gives information to enable you to decide on participation or not. Take your time to read it carefully and consider completely voluntary participation. You have the right to withdraw from the study at any time, without any negative consequences or having to provide an explanation. Until you submit the survey, you can still decide not to take part in the research. If you stop, your data will be deleted. After you click ‘send’, we cannot trace what data you have shared with us anymore.

During the survey, you may be reminded of negative experiences in the country of destination, for example discrimination and consequences for well-being. If you need emotional support or a listening ear, you can contact the following organisations in the destination countries: 

The Netherlands: Slachtofferhulp Nederland
Hotline: +31 88 746 00 00
Website: https://www.slachtofferhulp.nl

Germany: Faire Integration
Email: ffi@iq-consult.de
Website: https://www.faire-integration.de

Poland: Polish Migration Forum Foundation
Hotline: +48 22 11 000 85
Website: https://forummigracyjne.org/en/front-page/

Austria: Psychosocial service
Hotline: +43 1 4000 5300
Website: https://psd-wien.at/sorgenhotline-wien

Canada: Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime
Hotline: +1 866 481 8429
Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/office-federal-ombudsperson-victims-crime.html

There are no direct benefits or rewards for participating in this study. Indirectly, participation will lead to a better understanding of migration experiences and decisions of individuals with post-secondary education, which will be used to inform policymaking to facilitate migration and improve services for migrants.

We will ask you about the following personal data: age, gender, country of birth, nationality, cultural/ ethnic background, and occupation. We will not ask any direct identifiers from you.

We store all your data securely. Only persons involved in the research can see the data. We will write articles about the results of the study, which will be published in (academic) journals or books. The results will be accessible by anyone and shared on the Link4Skills website. They will also be fed into the AI-Assisted Link4Skills Navigator, a knowledge-based expert system supporting decision-making processes for fair skill flows across countries.

Your data will be kept for 10 years after completion of the research. We keep the data so that other researchers can verify that the research was conducted correctly.

Anonymized research data can be used in other research. We ensure that the data cannot be traced back to you by combining relevant variables, for example age, country of origin, and occupation.

If you have any questions about the study or your privacy rights, such as accessing, changing, deleting, or updating your data, please contact Dr. Julia Reinold (reinold@essb.eur.nl).
Do you have a complaint or concerns about your privacy? Please email the Data Protection Officer (fg@eur.nl) or visit www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl. (T: +31 88 – 1805250)

This research has been reviewed and approved by the DPAS Research Ethics Review Committee of Erasmus University Rotterdam (approval number: ETH2324-0932). This committee ensures that research participants are protected. If you would like to know more about the DPAS Research Ethics Review Committee, please contact dpas-ethics@essb.eur.nl

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