Religiosity and natives’ social contact with new refugees. Explaining differences between East and West Germany

Steinmann, Jan-Philip

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.10.007

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“…More recently, researchers have shown that the receiving country's norms and values are also important for immigrant integration. For example, Steinmann (2020) has demonstrated that natives' religiosity is a facilitating factor for establishing contacts with refugees in Germany. Likewise, in her qualitative study of Vietnamese marriage immigrants in Taiwan and South Korea, Chang (2019) showed that the way the origin and receiving country's gender roles interact either hindered or facilitated immigrants' cultural integration.…”

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Immigrant Women’s Economic Outcomes in Europe: The Importance of Religion and Traditional Gender Roles

Kanas

Müller²

2021

International Migration Review

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This article contributes to previous research on immigrant integration by examining how religiosity and gender roles in European countries influence immigrant women’s labor market outcomes. Moreover, we extend theoretical work on the importance of the receiving country’s norms and values by hypothesizing and testing whether receiving countries’ influence varies with immigrant women’s religiosity and gender-role attitudes. Using the European Social Survey data and multilevel regression models, we find that religious immigrant women participate less in the labor market and work fewer hours than nonreligious immigrant women. Immigrant women’s traditional gender-role attitudes partly explain the negative relationship between individual religiosity and labor market outcomes. While the receiving country’s religiosity is negatively related to immigrant women’s labor market outcomes, this negative relationship is significantly weaker for religious and gender-traditional immigrant women than for nonreligious and gender-egalitarian women. These findings suggest that the economic benefits of residing in countries that support female employment are limited to immigrant women who are ready and positioned to embrace gender-egalitarian norms and values.

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Section: The Receiving Country's Religiosity and Gender Rolesmentioning

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Immigrant Women’s Economic Outcomes in Europe: The Importance of Religion and Traditional Gender Roles

Kanas

Müller²

2021

International Migration Review

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“…In the Netherlands, as in many other Western European countries, a steadily growing migrant population from highly religious origin countries encounters an increasingly nonreligious native majority (Norris and Inglehart 2012; Voas 2008; Voas and Fleischmann 2012). Due to the differences in religiosity between immigrants and natives, there has been an increase in scholarly interest in the relation between religion and various integration outcomes, such as educational achievement (Carol and Schulz 2018), labor market behavior (Kanas and Müller 2021; Khoudja and Fleischmann 2015), social contacts (Maliepaard and Schacht 2018; Steinmann 2020), and cultural attitudes (Röder 2014). But in contrast to the United States, where religion is traditionally viewed as a stepping stone into mainstream society, Europeans often perceive religion as a barrier to immigrants’ integration (Foner and Alba 2008).…”

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Religious trajectories of immigrants in the first years after migration

Khoudja

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

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This paper examines religious change of immigrants from Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Spain in the first years after their arrival in the Netherlands––one of the least religious countries in the world. Religiosity is measured by attendance, praying, and subjective religiosity. Multiple‐group latent growth models are estimated based on four waves spanning a total of 4 years (n = 3354 at Wave 1) to identify religious trajectories. Results show an initial increase in attendance that levels off and ultimately reverses and a steady decrease in subjective religiosity across all immigrant groups. A group‐specific pattern is visible on the praying dimension: Turks show an initial increase that levels off over time and then reverses, whereas the other groups show no substantial change. The analysis suggests that differences in opportunities to attend and exclusion experiences are unlikely to be the main drivers of the immigrants’ religious trajectories.

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“…This finding stands in contrast to assumptions often propagated by the populist right (Korteweg and Yurdakul 2014). Second, by distinguishing between minority-majority, intra-minority, and inter-minority contact, we extend previous research, which has only focused on refugees' social contact with the longer-residing population (Huizinga and van Hoven 2018;Steinmann 2020). This extension is important because different types of social contact have distinct effects on immigrants' labor market outcomes (Lancee 2010;Kanas et al 2012).…”

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“…Thus, this article evaluates the importance of these gender-role values for explaining refugee women's social contact compared to alternative explanatory factors. Second, it adds to recent studies on refugee integration (e.g., Gericke et al 2018;Adam et al 2019;Brücker, Kosyakova, and Vallizadeh 2020;Kogan and Kalter 2020) by distinguishing between refugee women's minority-majority, intra-minority, and inter-minority contact (for studies on refugees' social contact with the longer-residing population in general, see Huizinga and van Hoven 2018;Steinmann 2020). Ample empirical evidence from the Dutch and German context shows that each type of social contact has distinct effects on another dimension of integration -immigrants' labor market integration, with social contact with the majority population being the most beneficial for immigrants' labor market outcomes (Lancee 2010;Kanas et al 2012).…”

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Do Gender-role Values Matter? Explaining New Refugee Women’s Social Contact in Germany

Hartmann¹,

Steinmann

2020

International Migration Review

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This article investigates whether gender-role values are linked to refugee women’s social contact in Germany. By building on the “preferences–third parties–opportunities” framework, we explicate a direct and an indirect path through which gender-role values may be related to refugee women’s minority-majority, intra-minority, and inter-minority contact. By applying median regressions, marginal structural models, and inverse probability of treatment weighting to data from the 2016 IAB-BAMF-SOEP refugee survey, we show that refugee women’s own gender-traditional values and those of their partners are associated both directly and indirectly with less social contact for these women. Effects of gender-role values on refugee women’s social contact are more pronounced for minority-majority contact than for the other two types of social contact assessed. With the effects of refugee women’s and their partners’ gender-role values being rather small against alternative explanatory factors, we conclude that in contrast to the view traditionally held by the populist right, traditional gender-role values hold refugee women back from establishing social contact in the host society only to a very limited extent.

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Religiosity and natives’ social contact with new refugees. Explaining differences between East and West Germany

Cited by 15 publications

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Immigrant Women’s Economic Outcomes in Europe: The Importance of Religion and Traditional Gender Roles

Immigrant Women’s Economic Outcomes in Europe: The Importance of Religion and Traditional Gender Roles

Religious trajectories of immigrants in the first years after migration

Do Gender-role Values Matter? Explaining New Refugee Women’s Social Contact in Germany

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