Socio-cultural integration of first generation immigrants in Greece

Autor:	Konstantinos Terzakis, Irene Daskalopoulou
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Economic integration Index (economics) media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Immigration Sample (statistics) First generation Geography Scale (social sciences) Demographic economics Construct (philosophy) Pre and post Demography media_common
Zdroj:	Migration Letters. 18
ISSN:	1741-8992 1741-8984
DOI:	10.33182/ml.v18i6.948
Popis:	We analyze the socio-cultural integration (SCI) of first generation immigrants as the outcome of economic integration and regularization. We focus on Greece for which similar evidence do not exist and report SCI levels and the factors that are conducive to them. We construct a simple socio-cultural integration index and analyze its variation against pre and post migration factors, using a sample of 200 first generation immigrants in Greece. Robust empirical estimation techniques are applied. Results reveal interesting findings with regard to immigrants’ types of adaptation to the host community. On a zero to ten scale, average SCI levels are estimated at 5.7 (± 2.5) which is high in absolute terms but low in terms of the degree (type) of integration. After controlling for the socio-demographic profile of the respondents, naturalization and their time living in Greece, we find that education and employment status are the most important determinants of socio-cultural integration.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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