The link between the transnational behaviour and integration of the second generation in European and American cities. Does the context of reception matter?

TY - JOUR

T1 - The link between the transnational behaviour and integration of the second generation in European and American cities. Does the context of reception matter?

AU - Fokkema, C.M.

AU - Lessard-Phillips, L.

AU - Bachmeier, J.D.

AU - Brown, S.K.

N1 - Reporting year: 2012

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - This article investigates the transnational behaviour of the children of immigrants – the second generation – in 11 European and two U.S. cities. We find evidence that transnational practices such as visits to the home country, remittances and use of ethnic media persist only among a minority of the second generation. At a personal level, these second-generation transmigrants are less socio-culturally integrated but more economically integrated in the host country. They also tend to live in those cities and countries with policies that are more assimilationist or exclusionary than multicultural. keywords: Immigrant integration; second generation; transnationalism; comparative immigration contexts; multiculturalism

AB - This article investigates the transnational behaviour of the children of immigrants – the second generation – in 11 European and two U.S. cities. We find evidence that transnational practices such as visits to the home country, remittances and use of ethnic media persist only among a minority of the second generation. At a personal level, these second-generation transmigrants are less socio-culturally integrated but more economically integrated in the host country. They also tend to live in those cities and countries with policies that are more assimilationist or exclusionary than multicultural. keywords: Immigrant integration; second generation; transnationalism; comparative immigration contexts; multiculturalism

U2 - 10.2478/v10202-011-0033-x

DO - 10.2478/v10202-011-0033-x

M3 - Article

SN - 1799-649X

VL - 2

SP - 111

EP - 123

JO - Nordic Journal of Migration Research

JF - Nordic Journal of Migration Research

IS - 2

ER -