How legal status contributes to differential integration opportunities
| Autor: | Janina Söhn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Legal status
Government Economic growth media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Immigration Life chances language.human_language German State (polity) Political science language Institutional analysis Relevance (law) Demographic economics 10. No inequality Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Migration Studies. 2:369-391 |
| ISSN: | 2049-5846 2049-5838 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/migration/mnu022 |
| Popis: | Although it is now increasingly recognized that the stratification of immigrant populations according to legal status has an important impact on integration outcomes, theoretical models and empirical tests of this linkage are rare. This article theorizes how legal-status differences and the corresponding differential treatment by the host government might impact on immigrants’ life chances generally, and on immigrant children’s educational opportunities in particular. In an empirical part of the article, Germany serves as an example of pronounced and highly differentiated legal stratification. For the immigrant cohorts of 1987 to 2003, an institutional analysis characterizes different dimensions of group-specific governmental reception with regard to their direct or indirect relevance for educational opportunities. Based on nationally representative data of the German Mikrozensus, multivariate statistical analyses show the effect of legal status on the types of German school diplomas attained by 1.5-generation immigrants. Though family background including parental education also plays an important part in explaining intergroup disparities, I can demonstrate that a favourable legal status and an inclusive reception by the state are associated with lower educational risks. |
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