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The Integration of the Second Generation in Germany IMISCOE surig & wilmes & surig It is a common expectation in migration research that the second generation of RESEARCH immigrants in Europe will be better adapted to and integrated into the different spheres of the receiving society than the first generation. Second-generation migrants are assumed to be in the process of gaining equality with the majority population, a process that will lead to complete assimilation of the generations to come. Another general understanding, however, is that migration shapes the host societies as much as these societies shape migration. In this context, The Integration of the Second Generation The Integration of in Germany: Results of the TIES Survey on the Descendants of Turkish and Yugoslavian Germany Generation in Second Integration of the The Immigrants presents a research report on the German results of the TIES survey (The Integration of the Second Generation in Europe). It elaborates various aspects the Second Generation of the integration of the second generation with Turkish and Yugoslavian migration background in Berlin and Frankfurt. Topics covered include educational careers and in Germany educational outcomes, labour market positions, segregation and housing, ethnic and cultural orientations, social relations, and family formation and partner relationships. Results of the TIES Survey Inken Sürig and Maren Wilmes are both affiliated with the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. on the Descendants of Turkish and Yugoslavian Migrants Inken Sürig & Maren Wilmes SSTOCTOCKHKHOLMOLM FRFRANANKFKFURTURT BEBERLIRLINN AMSTAMSTERDERDAMAM ROROTTERDAMTTERDAM ANANTWERTWERPP BBRUSSELRUSSELSS PAPARIRISS STRASBOURGSTRASBOURG MMADRIADRIDD BBARCELARCELONAONA VIVIENENNANA LILINZNZ BBASASLELE ZURZURICHICH AUP.nl STOCKHOLM FRANKFURT BERLIN AMSTERDAM ROTTERDAM ANTWERP BRUSSELS PARIS STRASBOURG MADRID BARCELONA VIENNA LINZ BASLE ZURICH The Integration of the Second Generation in Germany IMISCOE International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe The IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from some 30 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe. What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission became, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour. IMISCOE promotes integrated, multidisciplinary and globally comparative research led by scholars from various branches of the economic and social sciences, the humanities and law. The network furthers existing studies and pioneers new scholarship on migration and migrant integration. Encouraging innovative lines of inquiry key to European policymaking and governance is also a priority. The IMISCOE-Amsterdam University Press Series makes the network’s findings and results available to researchers, policymakers and practitioners, the media and other interested stakeholders. High-quality manuscripts are evaluated by external peer reviews and the IMISCOE Editorial Committee. The committee comprises the following members: Tiziana Caponio, Department of Political Studies, University of Turin / Forum for International and European Research on Immigration (FIERI), Turin, Italy Michael Collyer, Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex, United Kingdom Rosita Fibbi, Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland / Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne Agata Górny, Centre of Migration Research (CMR) / Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland Albert Kraler, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), Vienna, Austria Jean-Michel Lafleur, Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liège, Belgium Jorge Malheiros, Centre of Geographical Studies (CEG), University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Department of Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Marlou Schrover, Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands Patrick Simon, National Demographic Institute (INED), Paris, France IMISCOE Policy Briefs and more information on the network can be found at www.imiscoe.org. The Integration of the Second Generation in Germany Results of the TIES Survey on the Descendants of Turkish and Yugoslavian Immigrants Inken Sürig and Maren Wilmes IMISCOE Research Amsterdam University Press Cover design: Studio Jan de Boer BNO, Amsterdam Typesetting: Crius Group, Hulshout Amsterdam University Press English-language titles are distributed in the US and Canada by the University of Chicago Press. isbn 978 90 8964 842 6 e-isbn 978 90 4852 697 0 (pdf) nur 740 | 763 © Inken Sürig & Maren Wilmes / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2015 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owners and the authors of the book. Contents Preface: The international research project TIES 7 1 Introduction 9 1.1 The integration of the second generation: Theoretical considerations 9 1.2 TIES Germany: Method and data base 12 2 Migration history and basic demographic characteristics of the first generation 17 2.1 Introduction 17 2.2 The two cities under study: Berlin and Frankfurt 18 2.3 The parents of the TIES respondents 20 3 Educational careers and educational outcomes 29 3.1 Introduction 29 3.2 Kindergarten and primary school 32 3.3 The transition problem in the German school system 38 3.4 The transition from primary school to lower secondary: Recommendations for secondary schools and their ramifications 39 3.5 Subsequent educational careers: Lower secondary school 42 3.6 The first educational transition: From school to vocational training – general tendencies 47 3.7 Parents’ educational background and academic support from family 58 3.8 Sense of well-being at school 63 3.9 Conclusions 65 4 Labour market positions 69 4.1 Introduction 69 4.2 Labour force participation and current work status 70 4.3 Transition from the education system to the labour market 76 4.4 Significance of the highest qualification for labour market position 78 4.5 Occupational groups 81 4.6 The respondents’ financial situation 85 4.7 Current work status in Berlin and Frankfurt 89 4.8 Working conditions 93 4.9 Career conditions and discrimination at work 96 4.10 Conclusions 99 5 Segregation and housing 101 5.1 Introduction 101 5.2 Second-generation Turks and Yugoslavs in Berlin 102 5.3 Second-generation Turks and Yugoslavs in Frankfurt 115 5.4 Comparison Berlin – Frankfurt 126 5.5 Conclusions 130 6 Ethnic and cultural orientations 133 6.1 Introduction 133 6.2 Ethnic orientations 134 6.3 Attachment to the parents’ country of origin 139 6.4 Religious orientations 141 6.5 Intercultural orientations 145 6.6 Conclusions 148 7 Social relations 151 7.1 Introduction 151 7.2 Friendships 152 7.3 Participation in public contexts 157 7.4 Experiences of discrimination 160 7.5 Conclusions 166 8 Family formation and partner relationships 169 8.1 Introduction 169 8.2 Cohabitation, marriage, and procreation 170 8.3 Ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic orientations in partner relationships 173 8.4 Family life 178 8.5 Conclusions 182 9 Conclusions and international comparisons 183 References 189 Preface: The international research project TIES TIES (The Integration of the European Second Generation), http://www. tiesproject.eu/, was started in 2005 as a research project on the second generation in eight EU member states. It was coordinated by the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). The TIES survey was aimed at the descendants of immigrants from Turkey, the successor states of Yugoslavia (SSYU), and Morocco. The ‘second generation’ was defined as those children of immigrants who were born and lived in their parents’ country of immigration. At the time of the survey, these individuals were between 18 and 35 years old. Besides the second- generation groups, a non-migrant control group was also surveyed. This consisted of persons whose parents were both born in the country where the survey was carried out. Identifying migration as a primarily urban phenomenon, the research was conducted in fifteen cities in eight countries: Paris and Strasbourg in France, Berlin and Frankfurt in Germany, Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, Vienna and Linz in Austria, Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Brussels and Antwerp in Belgium, Zurich and Basle in Switzerland, and Stockholm in Sweden. In almost all the cities, three different groups were interviewed: two second-generation groups and one control group. The two second-generation groups were of Turkish and Moroccan origin in the Netherlands and Belgium, and of Turkish and Yugoslavian descent in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In France and Sweden, the funding allowed research on only one second-generation group (the descendants of Turks) and the control group. Due to the later influx of labour migrants, the Spanish project only addressed second-generation Moroccans and the control group. As a first step, a preliminary TIES study in 2003 was funded by the Swiss Stiftung für Bevölkerung, Migration und Umwelt (BMU). The TIES study
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