Recent Immigration Processes and Early Integration Trajectories in Germany

计划中的项目旨在分析德国最近移民的移民和定居动态以及融合轨迹。在SCIP(欧洲新移民的社会文化融合进程)国际项目的基础上，计划收集不同新移民群体的两波小组数据，以便充分描述最近的移民流入，回答移民和融合研究中悬而未决的问题，并为实地决策者提供相关信息。我们从现有研究的三个不足入手。首先，在分析融合轨迹时，很难区分原籍和目的地的影响，因为大多数数据集中包括的移徙者在第一次面谈时已经在该国生活了多年。其次，大多数数据集本质上仍是跨国的，因此因果关系问题仍未得到解决。最后，移民研究长期以来一直专注于低技能劳动力或殖民移民。实质上，我们计划在对最近抵达的波兰人、土耳其人、罗马尼亚人、意大利人、叙利亚人和伊拉克人进行标准化调查的基础上，研究最近移民的移民和定居进程及其在认知和结构融合、族裔和国家认同、文化适应和宗教信仰方面的融合轨迹。为此，我们使用了一种研究设计，使我们能够分析潜在的群体特定模式，同时考虑到起源群体的内部多样性。纳入我们研究的群体在他们的平均教育和技能水平、宗教背景、来的原因以及他们在接受国遇到的种族边界的突出程度方面有所不同。为了调查足够多的近期移民，我们计划在作为不同群体最重要目的地的那些城市进行标准化和激励的混合模式调查。在另一个单独的项目中，计划通过在同一城市的土著中进行调查来补充这一努力，以记录非正式排斥的过程和种族边界的建立。

The planned project aims to analyze the immigration and settlement dynamics and integration trajectories of recent immigrants in Germany. Building upon the international SCIP project (Socio-cultural Integration Processes among New Immigrants in Europe) it is planned to collect two waves of panel data among different groups of recent immigrants in order to adequately describe recent inflows, to answer unsettled questions in immigration and integration research and to provide relevant information for decision makers in the field. We start out from three shortcomings of existing research. First of all, it is difficult to disentangle origin and destination effects when analyzing integration trajectories because migrants included in most data sets have been living in the country for many years at the point of the first interview. Secondly, most data sets still are cross national in nature so that issues of causality remain unsettled. Finally, migration research has long focused on low skilled labor or colonial migrants. Substantively, we plan to study recent migrants immigration and settlement processes and their integration trajectories in the field of their cognitive and structural integration, ethnic and national identities, and acculturation and religiosity based on a standardized survey among recently arrived Poles, Turks, Romanians, Italians, Syrians and Iraqis. Doing so we use a research design that enables us to analyze potential group specific patterns while taking into account origin groups internal diversity. The groups to be included in our study differ with respect to their average educational and skill level, religious background, reasons for coming and the salience of ethnic boundaries they encounter in the receiving country. In order to survey a sufficiently large number of recent migrants we plan to conduct a standardized and incentivized mixed-mode survey in those municipalities that are the most important destinations for the different groups. In a separate project it is planned to supplement this endeavor with a survey among natives in the same municipalities to capture processes of informal exclusion and the construction of ethnic boundaries.