Full Description
Growing up in Diverse Societies provides a comprehensive analysis of the integration of children of immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. It is based on the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU), which included harmonised interviews with almost 19,000 14-15-year-olds. Growing up in Diverse Societies studies the life situation, social relations, and attitudes of adolescents in different ethnic minority groups, and compares these systematically to the majority youth in the four countries. The chapters cover a wide range of aspects of integration, all addressing comparisons between origin groups, generations, and destination countries, and elucidating processes accounting for differences.
The results challenge much of the current thinking on the state of integration. In some respects, such as own economic means, delinquency, and mental health, children of immigrants are surprisingly similar to majority youth, while in other respects there are large dissimilarities. There are also substantial differences between ethnic minority groups, with the economic and cultural distance of the origin regions to the destination country being a key factor. For some outcomes, such as language proficiency or host country identification, dissimilarities seem to narrow over generations, but this does not hold for other outcomes, such as religiosity and attitudes. Remaining differences partly depend on ethnic segregation, some on socioeconomic inequality, and others on parental influences. Most interestingly, Growing up in Diverse Societies finds that the four destination countries, though different in their immigration histories, policy approaches, and contextual conditions, are on the whole rather similar in the general patterns of integration and in the underlying processes.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Setting up the Study
1: Jan O. Jonsson, Frank Kalter, and Frank Van Tubergen: Studying Minority and Majority Youth in Comparative Perspective
2: Jan O. Jonsson: Immigration and Integration: Key Characteristics of Host Countries and Their Immigrants
3: Frank Kalter and Anthony Heath: Dealing with Diverse Diversities: Defining and Comparing Minority Groups
Part II: Structural Integration
4: Carina Mood: Keeping up with the Smiths, Müllers, De Jongs, and Johanssons - The Economic Situation of Minority and Majority Youth
5: Hanno Kruse and Frank Kalter: Learning Together or Apart? Ethnic Segregation in Lower Secondary Schools
Part III: Social Integration
6: Matthijs Kalmijn: The Cat's in the Cradle: Family Structure and Father Absence among Immigrant Children
7: Frank Van Tubergen and Sanne Smith: Making Friends across Ethnic Boundaries: Are Personal Networks of Adolescents Diverse?
8: Ralf Wölfer, Miles Hewstone, and Eva Jaspers: Social Contact and Interethnic Attitudes: The Importance of Contact Experiences in Schools
Part IV: Cultural Integration
9: Jörg Dollmann, Frida Rudolphi, And Meenakshi Parameshwaran: Ethnic Differences in Language Skills: How Individual and Family Characteristics Aid in and Prohibit the Linguistic Integration of the Children of Immigrants
10: Müge Simsek, Konstanze Jacob, Fenella Fleischmann, and Frank Van Tubergen: Keeping or Losing the Faith? Comparing Religion across Majority and Minority Youth in Europe
11: Anthony Heath, Konstanze Jacob, and Lindsay Richards: Young People in Transition: The National Identity of Minority Youth
12: Irena Kogan: Ethnic Minority Youth at the Crossroads: Between Traditionalism and Liberal Value Orientations
Part V: Further Aspects of Integration
13: Clemens Kroneberg: Reconsidering the Immigration-Crime nexus in Europe: Ethnic Differences in Juvenile Delinquency
14: Jan O. Jonsson and Carina Mood: Mental Well-being in Boys and Girls of Immigrant Background: The Balance between Vulnerability and Resilience
