Aufsätze in Sammelwerken 2018
Romana Careja, Alexander Schmidt-Catran
In:
Marco Giesselmann, Katrin Golsch, Henning Lohmann, Alexander Schmidt-Catran ,
Lebensbedingungen in Deutschland in der Längsschnittperspektive (Festschrift für Hans-Jürgen Andreß)
Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
149-166
In this study, we investigate the role of education in immigrants’ identification with the host society. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and latent growth curve mediation models, we test the immigration paradox hypothesis (de Vroome et al. 2011), which claims that highly educated immigrants identify less with the host society, due to their higher sensitivity to discriminatory experiences. While previous research found support for this hypothesis based on cross-sectional data, our analysis based on longitudinal data casts doubt on the validity of the immigration paradox argument.