The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; Stroebel, Johannes

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4080665

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“…Bailey et al (2019) use data from Facebook to study the role of peer effects in product adoption, and Bailey et al (2020a) study the role of information obtained through friends on individuals' social distancing behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bailey et al (2022) use data from Facebook to explore the determinants of the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany.…”

Section: Online Social Networking Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While social integration has multiple aspects, including labor market attachment and language acquisition, a central aspect is the formation of ties of camaraderie between immigrants and natives. Such ties are desirable in themselves, independent of their positive economic effects, and researchers are increasingly interested in measuring and explaining the formation of such links between different groups (Bailey et al, 2022).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Interactions, Resilience, and Access to Economic Opportunity: A Research Agenda for the Field of Computational Social Science

Kuchler

Stroebel

2023

Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy

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We argue that the increasing availability of digital trace data presents substantial opportunities for researchers and policy makers to better understand the importance of social networks and social interactions in fostering economic opportunity and resilience. We review recent research efforts that have studied these questions using data from a wide range of sources, including online social networking platform such as Facebook, call detail record data, and network data from payment systems. We also describe opportunities for expanding these research agendas by using other digital trace data, and discuss various promising paths to increase researcher access to the required data, which is often collected and owned by private corporations.

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Section: Online Social Networking Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Interactions, Resilience, and Access to Economic Opportunity: A Research Agenda for the Field of Computational Social Science

Kuchler

Stroebel

2023

Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy

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“…Our study also complements work that looks at cross-lingual connections on Twitter (Kim et al 2014) -as our work focuses on demographic attributes and on cross-cultural connections. The work that is conceptually most similar to ours is Bailey et al (2022), as the authors use Facebook data to study social integration for the specific case of Syrians in Germany, and to assess the effect of integration courses on social integration. Our analysis has a broader scope, considering Europe as a whole, and is not limited to Syrians.…”

Section: Digital Studies Of Social Connectednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both our study and Bailey et al (2022) use online connectedness to, ultimately, reason about real-world social ties. While online ties might not necessarily accurately reflect offline ties, recent work shows that ties, as observed on Facebook, are causally linked to improved economic mobility (Chetty et al 2022a,b).…”

Section: Digital Studies Of Social Connectednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Host-Centric Social Connectedness of Migrants in Europe on Facebook

Khatua

Zagheni

Weber

2023

ICWSM

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Extant literature has explored the social integration process of migrants settling in host communities. However, this literature typically takes a migrant-centric view, implicitly putting the burden of a successful integration on the migrant, and trying to identify the factors that lead to integration along various dimensions. In this paper, we flip this point of view by studying the attributes of natives that govern their propensity to form social ties with migrants.We do so by using anonymous and aggregate social network data provided by Facebook’s advertising platform. More specifically, we look at factors that influence the propensity for a likely-to-be non-Muslim Facebook user to have at least one social connection to a Facebook user who celebrates Ramadan. Given that, in the European context, following Islam is predominantly tied to a migration background, this gives us a lens into cross-cultural native-migrant connectivity. Our study considers demographic attributes of the host population, such as age, gender, and education level, as well as spatial variation across 30 European cities. Our findings suggest that young, educated, and male Facebook users are relatively more likely to build cross-cultural ties, compared to older, less educated, and female Facebook users. We also observe heterogeneity across the analyzed cities.

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“…In 2003, Nicolas Sarkozy, the then Minister of Internal Affairs, motivated the integration condition as a legal requirement for a residence permit as a way to help French Prefets "prevent communities from turning in on themselves." In spite of the promotion of social cohesion being a first order goal, our study along with Bailey et al (2022) are the first to look at the effect of integration contracts on social cohesion. In lieu of social integration measures, Goodman and Wright (2015) and Neureiter (2019) use outcomes like trust, perceived discrimination and Western values.…”

Section: Social Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

"Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?

Emeriau¹,

Hainmueller²,

Hangartner³

et al. 2022

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European governments, struggling with the incorporation of diverse immigrant populations, introduced integration contracts. Through language training and compulsory civics courses, the goal is to induce immigrants to adopt host society culture and respect its values. Despite their popularity, little empirical evidence exists whether they catalyze integration or trigger a backlash. To shed light on this question, we leverage the staggered introduction of France’s integration contract across metropolitan departments between 2003 and 2006 to implement a regression discontinuity design. We use census and labor force surveys to precisely estimate the effect of the contract on standard integration outcomes, and conduct our own survey of refugees to enrich our integration measures. We find that the integration contract did not increase economic and social integration, nor immigrants’ identification with France. However, we also do not find evidence of a backlash, suggesting that both hopes and criticisms of civic integration policies are exaggerated.

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The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany

Cited by 3 publications

References 71 publications

Social Interactions, Resilience, and Access to Economic Opportunity: A Research Agenda for the Field of Computational Social Science

Social Interactions, Resilience, and Access to Economic Opportunity: A Research Agenda for the Field of Computational Social Science

Host-Centric Social Connectedness of Migrants in Europe on Facebook

"Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?

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