The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe

Jacobs, Dirk; Swyngedouw, Marc; Hanquinet, Laurie; Vandezande, Véronique; Andersson, Roger; Horta, Ana Paula Beja; Berger, Maria; Diani, Mario; Ferrer, Amparo González; Giugni, Marco; Morariu, Miruna; Pilati, Katia; Statham, Paul

doi:10.1007/s12134-009-0091-2

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“…What makes empirical analysis in this field particularly demanding is that the data on migrants suffers from the fact that national authorities have only recently begun to make use of categories that mirror a meaningful operationalization of migration status (Jacobs et al, 2009). Data on foreigners has often been used to approach facts that concern migrants.…”

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Beyond opportunity structures: explaining migrant protest in Western Europe, 1975–2005

Strijbis

2015

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The dominance of the political opportunity structure approach has led to an emphasis of institutional variables in the field of migrant mobilization. This paper critically discusses political opportunity structure theory and defends alternative explanations for variance in levels of ethnic protest among migrants. In particular, it is argued that cultural distance, social stratification, and transnational bonds might be the driving forces behind the political mobilization of migrants. The theories are tested with protest event data for seven European countries between 1975 and

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Section: Protest Event Datamentioning

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Beyond opportunity structures: explaining migrant protest in Western Europe, 1975–2005

Strijbis

2015

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“…The population register contains information about all residents' country of birth (CoB) and also the CoB of every one's father and mother. (For a European compara tive overview of data on ethnicity and immigrants, see Jacobs et al 2009. ) Tables 3 and 4 report on population change by providing data on in-and out-migration by neighbour hood trajectory type.…”

Section: Selective Migration In Relation To Neighbourhoods That Undermentioning

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Reproducing and reshaping ethnic residential segregation in stockholm: the role of selective migration moves

Andersson

2013

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This paper deals with the issues of selective migration moves, and the production and reproduction of immigrantdense neighbourhoods in Stockholm, Sweden. It has been shown earlier that selective migration, that is, socioeconomic and ethnic differences between those leaving, entering and staying in so‐called deprived neighbourhoods, reproduces these neighbourhoods' characteristics of being poor and immigrant dense. Key concepts launched to inform such studies and derived from the US segregation discourse are “white fight” and “white avoidance”, meaning that native people (or white people in the US case) tend to leave neighbourhoods experiencing growing numbers of immigrants (black people) and which they also tend to avoid moving into such neighbourhoods. Using a complete set of geo‐coded longitudinal individual data for the 2005–2008 Stockholm County population, this paper contributes to our understanding of ethnic differences in the intra‐urban migration system. Three empirical questions are addressed: what individual characteristics distinguish (1) those who move into neighbourhoods experiencing rapidly increasing immigrant densities from those moving elsewhere in the urban region; (2) those who leave neighbourhoods experiencing rapidly increasing immigrant densities from those who stay put; (3) those who move in the direction of higher immigrant densities from those moving into lower densities? Results from multivariate statistical analyses provide support for the avoidance hypothesis but less support for the fight hypothesis. When controlling for a range of individual and neighbourhood attributes there is clear evidence that native‐born Swedes are less inclined than most immigrant categories to move into immigrant dense areas while ethnic origin does not seem to matter much when explaining who leaves such areas.

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“…When we refer to ethnic categories or ethnic inequalities in this article, we only consider the immigrant background of people for analytic purposes and do not make reference to concepts such as ethnic identities, ethnic communities or ethnic boundaries (cf. Simon, 1998;Jacobs et al, 2009). Most of the labour market entrants in our study with a North-, West-, or South-European background were born in Belgium.…”

Section: Ethnic Inequalities In Family Social Capitalmentioning

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Socio-economic and Ethnic Inequalities in Social Capital from the Family among Labour Market Entrants

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Putte³

2012

European Sociological Review

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This study investigates how the socio-economic positions of the parents shape the access to social capital of their children. We examine the influence of three parental socio-economic positions on the access to three job-finding resources from the family among labour market entrants. In addition, we examine how ethnic differences in family social capital are rooted in the unequal socio-economic positions of different ethnic categories. For these purposes, we collected data from 2,176 labour market entrants in Belgium and designed an instrument to measure three types of job-finding resources: labour market information, job information, and encouragement to search for a job. Moreover, we used a multidimensional perspective on social stratification by examining the educational levels, the social class positions, and the employment statuses of the parents. Our results show substantial socio-economic inequalities in family social capital: labour market entrants whose parents are higher educated, employed and/or from the service class have more access to job-finding resources from the family. Moreover, ethnic minorities in Belgium, especially the Turks, Moroccans, and Balkans, have less access to job-finding resources from the family than natives. These findings demonstrate the powerful interplay of parental socio-ethnic influences in shaping inequalities in social capital. Moreover, it is the first crucial step to establish how socio-economic inequalities are reproduced over generations through the functioning of social capital.

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The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe

Cited by 40 publications

References 18 publications

Beyond opportunity structures: explaining migrant protest in Western Europe, 1975–2005

Beyond opportunity structures: explaining migrant protest in Western Europe, 1975–2005

Reproducing and reshaping ethnic residential segregation in stockholm: the role of selective migration moves

Socio-economic and Ethnic Inequalities in Social Capital from the Family among Labour Market Entrants

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