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The report aimed to set the basis of MICADO project and shed some light on the challenges this innovation action faces and establish a more accurate picture of migrant integration in the four cities of interest for this project: Antwerp, Bologna, Hamburg and Madrid. The first section of this report presents a combination of a classic systematic literature review of the state of the art of migrant integration at a European, national and local level in the last 5 years, with a quantitative text analysis that studies the co-occurrence of different topics of interest. This up-to-date analysis includes 558 documents including reports and scientific articles from both the European Union and national scientific journals. The thorough revision of the literature brings us the opportunity to provide the MICADO project with a clear and critically assesed definition and conceptualisation of key terms, and discover which evidence-based individual and contextual characteristics have been found to affect integration in the main domains comprised by MICADO. The second section provides a general overview of secondary data on migrant population regarding the topics of interest (education, employment, health, housing, participation and gender) in a longitudinal and comparative perspective among the four countries involved in the MICADO project. It also shows the difficulty to obtain comparative statistics related to these issues at a local level. A third section presents the migrant integration policy map in the Consortium cities in a multilevel comparative perspective, encompassing the legal and political framework at a national level and public interventions developed at regional and local levels, with the aim of observing the real actions that have been executed for migrant integration and how they match the social, economic and political particularities in the different cities of interest for MICADO. The legal and political framework at national and local levels has followed the Migration Integration Policy Index (MIPEX), updating its scores to 2019, upgrading it by including the local/regional level and a housing and gender dimension. Following the new governance paradigm analysis, we aimed to present a policy map of actors involved in migrant integration policies in the four cities of interest, with a special focus on those more relevant or directly oriented to the population of interest. The purpose of this map, following Eurocities or OECD (2018e), is to show what is being done and who are involved in the design, implementation, funding and evaluation of the policy-making process, identifying patterns, agenda priorities and multilevel dependencies in these processes.