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Feeling German: The impact of education on immigrants’ national identification

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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.

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  1. Odense, Dänemark

    Romana Careja

  2. Köln, Deutschland

    Alexander Schmidt-Catran

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  1. SOEP, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Marco Giesselmann

  2. FB Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Katrin Golsch

  3. Fachbereich Sozialökonomie, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Henning Lohmann

  4. Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

    Alexander Schmidt-Catran

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Careja, R., Schmidt-Catran, A. (2018). Feeling German: The impact of education on immigrants’ national identification. In: Giesselmann, M., Golsch, K., Lohmann, H., Schmidt-Catran, A. (eds) Lebensbedingungen in Deutschland in der Längsschnittperspektive. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19206-8_9

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