Origins matter: Immigrant selectivity in Western Europe

起源很重要：西欧的移民选择性

• 批准号: 417512162
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Cornelia Kristen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/417512162?language=en
• 关键词: Origins; matter; Immigrant; selectivity; Western

This project builds upon a core principle in the sociology of migration, namely that immigrants are not a random sample of the origin population, but differ in certain characteristics from individuals who stay behind. The first aim is to provide a description of educational selectivity for a range of different immigrant groups across a variety of Western European destinations. In addition to educational selectivity, which is the main focus of this research, selectivity in attitudes also enters the account. The second aim is to theoretically disentangle and empirically investigate the links between selectivity and immigrants’ incorporation into the receiving societies. The focus is on a selection of important outcomes including cultural integration (in terms of language acquisition), positional or structural integration (in terms of education and labor market performance) and aspects of social and identificative integration (in terms of inter-ethnic relations and attitudes). An additional methodological aim is to contribute to the literature by systematically implementing improved measures of selectivity. In this project, selectivity is framed as an individual-level characteristic as opposed to the common approach of group-based specifications. We measure selectivity by recording an individual’s age- and sex-specific position in the origin country’s distribution of the selectivity characteristic in question. The resulting selectivity measure acknowledges that origin groups are typically composed of varying proportions of positively and negatively selected individuals. Advances in data availability allow making use of a variety of data sources, both for a large set of countries of origin and for various immigrant destinations throughout Europe. All data harmonization efforts as well as the scripts necessary for replicating the analyses carried out in the course of the project will be made available to the scientific community.

该项目以移徙社会学的一项核心原则为基础，即移民不是原籍人口的随机抽样，而是在某些特征上不同于留在原地的个人。第一个目的是提供一个说明教育的选择性，为一系列不同的移民群体在各种西欧目的地。除了教育的选择性，这是本研究的主要重点，选择性的态度也进入帐户。第二个目的是从理论上理清选择性与移民融入接受国社会之间的联系，并进行实证调查。重点是选择重要的成果，包括文化融合（在语言习得方面），位置或结构的融合（在教育和劳动力市场表现方面）和社会和认同的融合方面（在种族间的关系和态度方面）。另一个方法的目的是通过系统地实施改进的选择性措施来促进文献。在这个项目中，选择性是作为一个个人层面的特点，而不是基于群体的规范的共同方法。我们通过记录一个人的年龄和性别在原籍国的选择性特征分布中的位置来衡量选择性。由此产生的选择性措施承认，原籍群体通常由不同比例的积极和消极选择的个人组成。数据提供方面的进展使人们能够利用各种数据来源，既包括大量原籍国的数据，也包括欧洲各地各种移民目的地的数据。将向科学界提供所有数据统一工作以及复制项目过程中进行的分析所需的脚本。