Integration, Social Networks and Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6435.2011.00510.x

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“…2013b). Danzer and Ulku () found that immigrant's ethnic and familial networks increase the income of unintegrated migrants, especially for poorer, uneducated households. Therefore, it can be assumed that immigrant entrepreneurs will find it easier to operate in an open economy framework and therefore:…”

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The Effect of Immigration on Entrepreneurship

Zelekha

2013

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Summary This research focuses on the impact of immigration on entrepreneurship. I find clear evidence that immigration has a significant impact on entrepreneurship. The paper makes three important contributions to the research of both immigration and entrepreneurship. First, it proposes unique empirical evidence using a cross‐section analysis in which the country's level of immigrants has a significantly positive affect on its level of entrepreneurship. Second, it adds to the theoretical understanding of the mechanisms and environments that characterize positive immigration effects on entrepreneurship. I suggest that country‐specific characteristics – in particular urban, open, competitive and culturally diversified (including open minded for ethnic and gender diversity) – influence significantly the positive effect of immigrants on the country's level of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, these positive effects are magnified as the flow of immigrants grows. Third, it uses for the first time in the literature a cross‐section data set of 176 countries of immigrants and entrepreneurial activity.

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Section: Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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The Effect of Immigration on Entrepreneurship

Zelekha

2013

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“…Recent papers have described whether and how strongly immigrants identify with the culture of the host country (Bisin et al, ; Drever, ; Dustmann, ; Manning and Roy, ). Beside subjective self‐identification, some other measures of integration in the literature are language (Bauer et al, ; Dustmann, ; Lazear, ), citizenship (Danzer and Ulku, ), or composite metrics (Constant and Zimmermann, ).…”

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi‐experimental Social‐interaction Approach

Danzer¹,

Yaman

2013

Rev International Economics

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractIt is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in the willingness or ability to integrate which have confounded previous studies. Evidence suggests that the presence of co-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. AcknowledgementWe thank two anonymous referees and the editors Gil Epstein and Ira Gang for helpful suggestions.2

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“…This largely applies to migrants from these countries, too (Aelenei, Darnon, & Martinot, 2016;Arends-Tóth & van de Vijver, 2008; Ayçiçegi-Dinn & Caldwell-Harris, 2011). Interdependent family structures and extended social networks among migrants can provide greater social support, which has been shown to be a buffer for acculturative stressors (Danzer & Ulku, 2011) and a protective influence against delinquency (Le & Stockdale, 2005). Social support is supposed to be a general protective influence against delinquency (Stouthamer-Loeber et al, 2002) that might be even more important in collectivist cultures than in individualist cultures, which can only be checked via a cross-cultural comparative study.…”

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Risk and protective factors of delinquency that are sensitive to migration and culture

Schmidt

Bliesener

Meer

2019

Psychology, Crime & Law

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Present evidence regarding widely used risk assessment tools suggests that such tools may have inferior predictive validity for offenders with a migration background (MB), especially from Turkey and Arab countries. Based on a thorough literature review, we investigated additional risk and protective factors via a postdictive correlational study design. We assumed that delinquency is induced by discrimination, a conflict of values, norms of honour, a disapproval of sexual self-determination, and antisemitism. In contrast, we expected social support to diminish the risk of criminal behaviour. The sampling took place inside and outside prison, where adult men with an Arab or Turkish MB (n = 140) filled out a questionnaire. Individual norms of honour (r = .27 −.41), antisemitism (r = .31−.37), and a disapproval of sexual selfdetermination (r = .23−.26) were positively correlated with delinquency. The best predictor was the individual's perception of friends' norms of honour (r = .34−.56). However, only a few significant correlations were found for a perception of individual discrimination (r = .08−.14) and an internal conflict of values (r = .11−.15), whereas global discrimination (r = .20−.29) clearly emerged as a risk factor for delinquency. Social support by nondelinquent peers could be confirmed as having a protective influence against delinquency (r=−.25−.27). Theoretical and practical implications for risk assessment are discussed.

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Integration, Social Networks and Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Cited by 34 publications

References 41 publications

The Effect of Immigration on Entrepreneurship

The Effect of Immigration on Entrepreneurship

Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi‐experimental Social‐interaction Approach

Risk and protective factors of delinquency that are sensitive to migration and culture

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