Identities: Urban Belonging and Intercultural Relations

Schneider, Jens; Fokkema, Tineke; Matias, Raquel; Stojčić, Snežana; Ugrina, Dusan; Vera-Larrucea, Constanza

doi:10.1017/9789048516926.008

Cited by 35 publications

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“…Moreover, adolescents usually still live with and remain attached to their families, which makes their ethnic origin present and visible on an everyday basis. Not surprisingly then, research has found that most minority youth remain considerably identified with their ethnic origins in Europe (Heath, Jacob, and Richards, 2018;Schneider et al 2012a).…”

Section: Of Bright and Blurred Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

More Than a Sorting Machine: Ethnic Boundary Making in a Stratified School System

Kruse

Kroneberg

2019

American Journal of Sociology

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This article examines the structural conditions that shape ethnic boundary making in the school setting. While previous work has focused on the ethnic composition of student bodies, our study places schools in their institutional and local contexts. We argue that the formation of identities and networks varies across local areas depending on the extent of ethnic stratification across schools. Empirically, we turn to the case of Germany, where the role of schools as producers of categorical inequalities is particularly obvious. Our analysis links large-scale survey data on adolescents' identification and networks with administrative geocoded information on local stratification across secondary schools. We find that minority students in schools with identical ethnic compositions show different inclinations to identify as a majority group member and to form friendships with majority peers-depending on the local extent of ethnic stratification across schools. To place these findings in a cross-national perspective, we identify scope conditions of these mechanisms of boundary making and discuss their presence in other countries and school systems. Our results support recent theories of immigrant incorporation and offer a more contextualized understanding of ethnic boundary making in schools.

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Section: Of Bright and Blurred Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

More Than a Sorting Machine: Ethnic Boundary Making in a Stratified School System

Kruse

Kroneberg

2019

American Journal of Sociology

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“…Group members can also derive a sense of social identity from comparisons with other ingroup members. For instance, family members and community elders are important referent groups as they instill in young people the values, customs, and ideals of their ethnic, national or religious background, thereby creating symbolic boundaries that define the group (Verkuyten 2005;Schoenpflug 2008;Gouldbourne et al 2010;Schneider et al 2012). People can also construct their social identity in relation to members of the ingroup who are geographically distant.…”

Section: Social Identity: Contextualising Psychological Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young Somalis’ social identity in Sweden and Britain: The interplay of group dynamics, socio-political environments, and transnational ties in social identification processes

Scuzzarello

Carlson

2018

Migration Studies

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In this article, we aim to contribute to the literature on social identification among migrants and minorities by offering a theoretical framework that accounts for the interplay of socio-psychological factors, local and transnational group dynamics, and the socio-political environment in which migrants live. This approach enables us to analyse not only the political significance of identity, but also the psychology of identity formation. Drawing upon qualitative data, we analyse how young Somalis (N = 43) living in the municipalities of Malmö (Sweden) and Ealing (United Kingdom) construct and negotiate their ethnic social identities in relation to: Somali elders living in the same city; Somalis in Somalia and in the diaspora; and the British/Swedish majority society. We show that, to secure a positive self-identity vis-à-vis these referent groups, young Somalis engage in psychological strategies of separation; social competition; and social creativity. The socio-political environment in which they are embedded influences which strategy they adopt.

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“…More recent pluralist perspectives, on the other hand, reject a zero-sum view of identity (Platt 2014, 47) and maintain that minority and majority identities can coexist nested within each other (Berry 2001). Moreover, we note a growing practice of observing sense of belonging (Heckmann 2006;Schneider et al 2012; OECD/EU 2019), as opposed to national identity, reflecting a shift in focus from immigrant "loyalty" to immigrant inclusion in the host society.…”

Section: Dimensionality In Immigrant Integration: a Conceptual Overviewmentioning

confidence: 65%

Multidimensionality in the Integration of First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation

Fajth

Lessard-Phillips

2022

International Migration Review

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Immigrant integration scholarship increasingly discusses integration as a multidimensional process. Yet there is considerable inconsistency in how that multidimensionality is conceptualized. This article posits that there are two different logical approaches by which multidimensional frameworks of integration tend to outline their dimensions: the “thematic” (or conceptually driven) approach and the “empirical” approach. We contend that these two approaches lead to differently structured multidimensional frameworks of immigrant integration. To demonstrate these points, we, first, review different conceptualizations and approaches to multidimensionality in prior immigrant integration research, focusing largely on Europe. Through a synthesis of these prior approaches, we outline eight thematic dimensions of integration prevalent in the existing literature. Second, we conduct an original study with cross-European data on first- and second-generation migrants (ESS7 2014-15, N = 1,066) to outline a multidimensional framework based on empirical patterns of co-variation (or distinction) among integration-related outcomes. Our factor analysis of 18 common indicators of integration reveals five main dimensions of integration, with some items relating strongly to more than one dimension. These five “empirical” dimensions (economic/structural integration; health; subjective well-being; cultural assimilation and civic/political integration; and minority socialization) differ from the eight typical “thematic” dimensions identified in existing scholarship in key respects, which we discuss alongside potential connections between integration aspects as suggested by our findings (e.g., between economic and civic/political or between civic/political and cultural aspects). Overall, our article advances migration studies by helping us think more critically about the multidimensionality of immigrant integration and contributes to an emerging literature on integration's multidimensionality.

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Identities: Urban Belonging and Intercultural Relations

Cited by 35 publications

References 25 publications

More Than a Sorting Machine: Ethnic Boundary Making in a Stratified School System

More Than a Sorting Machine: Ethnic Boundary Making in a Stratified School System

Young Somalis’ social identity in Sweden and Britain: The interplay of group dynamics, socio-political environments, and transnational ties in social identification processes

Multidimensionality in the Integration of First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation

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