Participative Immigrants or Participative Cultures? The Importance of Cultural Heritage in Determining Involvement in Associations

Voicu, Bogdan

doi:10.1007/s11266-013-9355-8

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“…When moving from one context to another, people tend to fit into their new social landscape and replicate its cultural values, including those on relating to others or to institutions. On the other hand, we have shown that they also transfer their initial culture of trusting, in the same way in which it happens with respect to trusting people (Voicu, 2014b) or civic participation (Voicu and Rusu, 2012). The outcome is a mixture of cultural influences, in which the host's ones are the more powerful.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 71%

Migrating trust: contextual determinants of international migrants’ confidence in political institutions

Voicu

Tufiș

2015

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This paper considers the case of the international migrants’ confidence in political institutions, from a social embeddedness perspective on political trust. We use country-level aggregates of confidence in institutions as indicators of specific cultures of trust, and by employing data from the European Values Study, we test two competing hypotheses. First, as confidence in institutions depends on the values formed during early childhood, the international migrant’s confidence in political institutions in the current country of residency will be influenced by the confidence context from the country of origin. Second, the host country may have different norms of trust in political institutions, and a process of re-socialization may occur. Therefore, the immigrants’ confidence in institutions is influenced by two confidence contexts: one from the origin country and one from the host country. The time spent in the two cultures, along with other characteristics from these contexts, shape the interaction effects we tested in multilevel cross-classified models.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 71%

Migrating trust: contextual determinants of international migrants’ confidence in political institutions

Voicu

Tufiș

2015

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…This only partial assimilation is supported by cultural fusion theory (Kramer 2000) that assumes new habits and ways of living can be adopted from the majority culture, without giving up the own original culture. Also, this theory of partial assimilation is supported by recent empirical findings (Voicu 2013). For all factors in the following, it is discussed whether a certain factor is likely to persist even after a strong assimilation takes place, as the culture fusion theory suggests, or if it is going to diminish.…”

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confidence: 62%

Missing Minorities: Explaining Low Migrant Blood Donation Participation and Developing Recruitment Tactics

2014

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Missing Minorities (MIMI) is a research project initiated by the European Blood Alliance that aims to develop new strategies to recruit blood donors from minority groups. This paper contributes to this larger project by analyzing data of the German Socio-Economic Panel study 2011 that questioned over 20,000 respondents about their blood donation behavior. Within this sample, the authors identify 1,726 potential blood donors from various migrant groups. Applying logistic regression analysis, the authors analyze differences between blood donors and non-donors with migration background. The results show that non-donors trust other people significantly less, use the internet less often, and have a significantly lower reading ability in German. Based on these findings, the authors discuss the current practices in minority blood donor recruitment as found in the MIMI project. Furthermore, promising recruitment tactics for blood donation managers and areas for further research are derived.Résumé Le projet Missing Minorities (MIMI, que l'on pourrait traduire par « minorités non représentées ») de l'Alliance européenne du sang vise à développer de nouvelles stratégies pour recruter des donneurs de sang appartenant à des groupes minoritaires. Cet article contribue à ce projet d'envergure en analysant les données

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“…Concerning the sample of individuals of migrant origin, due to various reasons like the fact that research teams were dealing with difficult populations to sample (Heckathorn, 1997), and due to resource limitations, in most cities it was possible to sample three groups. The lack of more ethnic groups is a limitation of this study given that cultures of participation from different migrants' origin countries are significant in determining migrant civic participation in the host country (Voicu, 2014). 4 However, this survey still has the advantage of specifically tackling individuals of migrant origin in a wide number of cities.…”

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Gaps in protest activities between natives and individuals of migrant origin in Europe

Pilati

2017

Acta Sociologica

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This article explores gaps in protest engagement between natives and individuals of migrant origin in European cities. It examines migrant-native gaps and second generation-native gaps by associating them with different sources of inequalities: differential individual SES resources, differential attitudes, and differential characteristics related to migration; differential effects of such factors for natives and for individuals of migrant origin; and differential contexts offering varying opportunities of participation. The study uses cross-national micro-data from a population survey of immigrant-origin individuals and natives in 9 European cities undertaken in 2004-2008. The findings show that observed inequalities in protest participation involving migrants and second generations are largely based on different levels of education attained and of political interest. Some migration-related characteristics, like holding the citizenship of the host country and experienced discrimination, affect protest gaps as well. In addition, results support the claimed importance of the context where individuals of migrant origin settle, in particular, of the characteristics of the citizenship regime. Finally, our findings support a segmented assimilation hypothesis whereby different socioeconomic modes of incorporation of ethnic groups in the host cities affect different trajectories of political incorporation.

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Participative Immigrants or Participative Cultures? The Importance of Cultural Heritage in Determining Involvement in Associations

Cited by 30 publications

References 46 publications

Migrating trust: contextual determinants of international migrants’ confidence in political institutions

Migrating trust: contextual determinants of international migrants’ confidence in political institutions

Missing Minorities: Explaining Low Migrant Blood Donation Participation and Developing Recruitment Tactics

Gaps in protest activities between natives and individuals of migrant origin in Europe

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