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Growing up in Diverse Societies offers an assessment of the lives and attitudes of young ethnic minorities. Using recent data on c. 19,000 adolescents in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, the editors have compared minorities and the majority revealing patterns of integration across immigrant origins and destination countries.
List of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: Setting up the Study
- 1: Jan O. Jonsson, Frank Kalter, and Frank Van Tubergen: Studying Minority and Majority Youth in Comparative Perspective
- 2: Jan O. Jonsson: Immigration and Integration: Key Characteristics of Host Countries and Their Immigrants
- 3: Frank Kalter and Anthony Heath: Dealing with Diverse Diversities: Defining and Comparing Minority Groups
- Part II: Structural Integration
- 4: Carina Mood: Keeping up with the Smiths, Müllers, De Jongs, and Johanssons - The Economic Situation of Minority and Majority Youth
- 5: Hanno Kruse and Frank Kalter: Learning Together or Apart? Ethnic Segregation in Lower Secondary Schools
- Part III: Social Integration
- 6: Matthijs Kalmijn: The Cat's in the Cradle: Family Structure and Father Absence among Immigrant Children
- 7: Frank Van Tubergen and Sanne Smith: Making Friends across Ethnic Boundaries: Are Personal Networks of Adolescents Diverse?
- 8: Ralf Wölfer, Miles Hewstone, and Eva Jaspers: Social Contact and Interethnic Attitudes: The Importance of Contact Experiences in Schools
- Part IV: Cultural Integration
- 9: Jörg Dollmann, Frida Rudolphi, And Meenakshi Parameshwaran: Ethnic Differences in Language Skills: How Individual and Family Characteristics Aid in and Prohibit the Linguistic Integration of the Children of Immigrants
- 10: Müge Simsek, Konstanze Jacob, Fenella Fleischmann, and Frank Van Tubergen: Keeping or Losing the Faith? Comparing Religion across Majority and Minority Youth in Europe
- 11: Anthony Heath, Konstanze Jacob, and Lindsay Richards: Young People in Transition: The National Identity of Minority Youth
- 12: Irena Kogan: Ethnic Minority Youth at the Crossroads: Between Traditionalism and Liberal Value Orientations
- Part V: Further Aspects of Integration
- 13: Clemens Kroneberg: Reconsidering the Immigration-Crime nexus in Europe: Ethnic Differences in Juvenile Delinquency
- 14: Jan O. Jonsson and Carina Mood: Mental Well-being in Boys and Girls of Immigrant Background: The Balance between Vulnerability and Resilience
About the author
Frank Kalter studied at the University of Cologne and finished his dissertation and habilitation at the University of Mannheim. He became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig in 2004 and moved back to Mannheim in 2009. He was President of the European Academy of Sociology from 2011 to 2015 and director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) from 2014 to 2017. Currently he also serves as the co-founding-director of the governmental DeZIM Institute for research on migration and integration in Berlin. His research interests include migration, integration, and formal theory building.
Jan O. Jonsson received his PhD from Stockholm University and became Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research in 1998. Since 2007, he is a fellow of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, and since 2012 Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. His research interests are social stratification, including educational inequality, social mobility, and poverty; the welfare and living conditions of children and youth; and ethnic integration. He is the PI of the Swedish Level of Living Surveys and of the Swedish CILS4EU survey, and the author, together with Robert Erikson, of Can Education be Equalized? (1996).
Frank van Tubergen is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Netherlands. In 2010, he was elected as a fellow of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and in 2011 as a member of the European Academy of Sociology. His research interests are social networks, immigration, and religion. His publications appeared in various international journals, such as American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Demography, and European Sociological Review.
Anthony Heath studied at Trinity College, Cambridge before taking up Fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge and then at Jesus College, Oxford. He moved to an Official Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford in 1987 and become the founding Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford in 1999. He was Director of the British Election Studies from 1983 to 1997. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992 and was awarded a CBE for services to social science in 2013.
Summary
Growing up in Diverse Societies offers an assessment of the lives and attitudes of young ethnic minorities. Using recent data on c. 19,000 adolescents in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, the editors have compared minorities and the majority revealing patterns of integration across immigrant origins and destination countries.
