Immigrant and Ethnic Minority families: An Introduction

The impact of intergenerational transmission processes on the intercultural contact and ethnic identification of second generation adolescents is studied in five different groups of migrant families: Italian, Greek, and Turkish work migrants, German repatriates from Russia, and Jewish immigrants fro...

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Published inJournal of comparative family studies Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 461 - 463
Main Authors NAUCK, BERNHARD, SETTLES, BARBARA H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Calgary Department of Sociology, University of Calgary 01.10.2001
University of Toronto Press
Subjects
Cultural customs
Decision making
Families
Human capital
Human migration
Immigration
Kinship
Labor migration
Living conditions
Marriage
Migration
Political migration
Satellite television
Social discrimination
Social integration
Social structures
Society
Television networks
Trends
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Summary:The impact of intergenerational transmission processes on the intercultural contact and ethnic identification of second generation adolescents is studied in five different groups of migrant families: Italian, Greek, and Turkish work migrants, German repatriates from Russia, and Jewish immigrants from Russia to Israel. In each group, 400 dyads of parents and adolescents with the same sex were interviewed with a standardized questionnaire in the language of origin or of the receiving society. Four possible outcomes of intercultural contact are distinguished: integration, assimilation, segregation, and marginalization. An explanatory model is proposed that relates these possible outcomes systematically to the availability of social and cultural capital in migrant families and to intergenerational transmission processes. The empirical analysis compares measurement for ethnic identification and network characteristics for the parent and the child generation as an indication of intergenerational transmission. It reveals considerable variability between migrant groups which can not be explained by classical assimilation theory and thus demonstrate the adequacy of the suggested model.
ISSN:0047-2328
1929-9850
DOI:10.3138/jcfs.32.4.461