Growing up in Diverse Societies by Kalter, Frank; Kalter, Frank; Jonsson, Jan O.;

The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 215;

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Publisher The British Academy
Date of Publication 4 October 2018

ISBN 9780197266373
Binding Hardback
No. of pages424 pages
Size 241x163x12 mm
Weight 816 g
Language English
Illustrations Numerous graphs and tables

Short description:

Growing up in Diverse Societies offers an assessment of the lives and attitudes of young ethnic minorities. Using recent data on c. 19,000 adolescents in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, the editors have compared minorities and the majority revealing patterns of integration across immigrant origins and destination countries.

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Long 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.