A rolling stone gathers no moss? Residential mobility among ethnic minorities in Germany and its consequences for well-being (WELLMOB)

本研究旨在研究居住流动性及其对德国少数民族主观幸福感的影响。随着社会融合和社会向上流动的增加，人们对在富裕的郊区居住和拥有住房的渴望也在增加。与此同时，研究表明，种族宗教社区的嵌入可能是移民出身的人高质量生活的基石。因此，我们打算研究居住在（郊区）主流社区的移民的主观幸福感，而不是居住在种族宗教社区的人，特别感兴趣的是研究那些实际在社区之间移动的人。为了解释移居新社区的潜在福祉效应，我们通过三种类型的社区质量（一般社区资源、民族-宗教社区资源和歧视）扩展了主观福祉及其社会驱动因素的基本模型，这三种社区质量对移民出身的人尤其重要。我们的目标是通过基于社会经济面板（SOEP）的社区效应横断面分析和对移民原籍SOEP受访者的纵向差异分析来检验扩展模型。此外，一套新的民族宗教社区基础设施指标使我们能够进行比以前的研究更详细的分析。

This study sets out to study residential mobility and its consequences for subjective wellbeing among ethnic minorities in Germany. As integration and social upward mobility increase, so does the desire for residency in affluent suburban neighborhoods and home ownership. At the same time, research suggests that ethno-religious community embeddedness may act as a bedrock of a high quality of living among persons of immigrant origin. We therefore intent to study the subjective well-being of persons of immigrant origin living in (suburban) mainstream neighborhoods vis-á-vis those residing in ethno-religious communities, with a special interest in studying those who have actually moved between neighborhoods. To explain potential well-being effects of moving to a new neighborhood, we expand the fundamental model of subjective wellbeing and its social drivers by three types of neighborhood qualities (general neighborhood resources, ethno-religious community resources, and discrimination) which should matter particularly to persons of immigrant origin. We aim to test the expanded model with a cross-sectional analysis of neighborhood effects based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a longitudinal differences-in-differences analysis of SOEP respondents of immigrant origin who relocated. Furthermore, a novel set of indicators of ethno-religious community infrastructures allows us to conduct more detailed analyses than previous studies.