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Growing up in diverse societies, the integration of the children of immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, edited by Frank Kalter, Jan O. Jonsson, Frank van Tubergen and Anthony Heath

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Growing up in diverse societies

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edited by Frank Kalter, Jan O. Jonsson, Frank van Tubergen and Anthony Heath

Proceedings of the British Academy,, 215, 0068-1202

the integration of the children of immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Part I: Setting up the study. 1: Studying minority and majority youth in comparative perspective / Jan O. Jonsson, Frank Kalter, and Frank Van Tubergen -- 2: Immigration and integration: key characteristics of host countries and their immigrants / Jan O. Jonsson -- 3: Dealing with diverse diversities: defining and comparing minority groups / Frank Kalter and Anthony Heath -- Part II: Structural integration. 4: Keeping up with the Smiths, Müllers, De Jongs, and Johanssons -- the economic situation of minority and majority youth / Carina Mood -- 5: Learning together or apart? Ethnic segregation in lower secondary schools / Hanno Kruse and Frank Kalter -- Part III: Social integration. 6: The cat's in the cradle: family structure and father absence among immigrant children / Matthijs Kalmijn -- 7: Making friends across ethnic boundaries: are personal networks of adolescents diverse? / Frank Van Tubergen and Sanne Smith -- 8: Social contact and interethnic attitudes: the importance of contact experiences in schools / Ralf Wölfer, Miles Hewstone, and Eva Jaspers -- Part IV: Cultural integration. 9: Ethnic differences in language skills: how individual and family characteristics aid in and prohibit the linguistic integration of the children of immigrants / Jörg Dollmann, Frida Rudolphi, and Meenakshi Parameshwaran -- 10: Keeping or losing the faith? Comparing religion across majority and minority youth in Europe / Müge Simsek, Konstanze Jacob, Fenella Fleischmann, and Frank Van Tubergen -- 11: Young people in transition: the national identity of minority youth / Anthony Heath, Konstanze Jacob, and Lindsay Richards -- 12: Ethnic minority youth at the crossroads: between traditionalism and liberal value orientations / Irena Kogan -- Part V: Further aspects of integration. 13: Reconsidering the immigration-crime nexus in Europe: ethnic differences in juvenile delinquency / Clemens Kroneberg

Integration of the children of immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden