Immigrants' Life Satisfaction in Europe: Between Assimilation and Discrimination

Life satisfaction of immigrants: does cultural assimilation matter?

“…Our findings thus suggest that, beyond labor market conditions, a significant linkage between the life satisfaction of immigrants and their perceived cultural assimilation remains unexplored. Second, we investigate the interplay of cultural assimilation with the time since immigration (Gundel and Peters 2007;Safi 2010;Herrero et al 2011), to assess whether the association between cultural assimilation and immigrants' subjective well-being 8 Constant and Zimmermann (2009b) find that assimilation with German culture significantly increases the probability of work for male immigrants, relative to those identified as separated or marginalized. Assimilation does not offer particular advantages in the labor market compared with integration though.…”

Does Preschool Education Help Immigrant Children Reach Their Native Peers’ Academic Levels?: A Case of Turkish Immigrant Children in Sweden

“…Without doubt, this has negative effects on the family's life satisfaction. In the same line as the argument above, the fact of immigration exposes the immigrant family to cultural, economic, social class and ethnic discrimination thus affecting the levels of life satisfaction for all family members in a negative way (Dietz, 2010;OECD, 2013;Safi, 2010). The low levels of life satisfaction cause the immigrant family to be indifferent/negligent about the child, to disregard the child's academic life and ignore meeting the child's needs in fulfilling manner and therefore leads to the negative effects on the child's social and academic life (Dronkers, 2010;Fossati, 2011;Jonsson & Rudolphi, 2011;Rindermann & Ceci, 2009;Schnepf, 2008).…”

The (Un)Healthy Migrant Effect. The Role of Legal Status and Naturalization Timing

“…For instance, examining differences in functional ability, disability, disease presence and behavioral risk factors among individuals aged 50 years and older in 11 European countries, Solé-Auró and Crimmins (2008) discovered that immigrants aged 50 years and older report worse health than natives, even after adjusting for socio-economic status. Other cross-national studies also point out immigrants' health disadvantage when looking at self-rated health (Malmusi 2015) or mental health outcomes (Safi 2010;Sieberer et al 2012). The authors often explain the poor health of migrants by invoking the exposure to health hazards in their country of origin, the precarious residential and employment conditions in the host country, but also the stress of the migration process itself (Rechel et al 2013).…”