Religious change of new immigrants in the Netherlands: The event of migration

Tubergen, Frank van

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.12.016

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“…We find mixed support for some of the major arguments advanced in the existing literature. Above all, the study confirms that far from constituting a “theologizing” experience new immigrants experience a decrease in religious practices, as previous research in North America has found for a similar finding on recent immigrants in the Netherlands (see Van Tubergen, ). In line with the argument that initial drops in religious practice are partly due to lacking access to religious opportunities, we found religious decrease to be greater among Muslim Turks than among Catholic Poles and to be more pronounced for worship attendance than for prayer.…”

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“…In this article we aim to contribute to the literature on religion and immigrant integration in Western Europe by presenting unique and novel data from an international survey project on Socio‐Cultural Integration Processes of New Immigrants in Europe (SCIP) which, amongst many other topics, allows studying changes in religiosity in the very early period of immigrant integration. We focus on newly arriving Muslim Turks and Catholic Poles in Germany (for a parallel analysis in the Netherlands see Van Tubergen, ). Both groups come from highly religious countries of origin and thus share the experience of entering a receiving country that is dramatically more secularized.…”

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God Can Wait – New Migrants in Germany Between Early Adaptation and Religious Reorganization

Diehl

Koenig

2013

International Migration

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We analyse migration-related changes in religiosity among new Polish and Turkish migrants in Germany by using data from an international project on Socio-Cultural Integration Processes of New Immigrants in Europe (SCIP). The study confirms that after migration, both groups experience a decrease in religious practices that is more pronounced among Muslim Turks than among Catholic Poles and more pertinent for worship attendance than for prayer. Among new Polish immigrants, religious decrease is greater for individuals with stronger social ties to the secular German mainstream and there are no signs that religious practices are resumed after the disruptive first couple of months. For Turks, however, our study shows that initial religious decrease is followed by a process of religious reorganization, independent of social assimilation. We discuss the role that "bright" symbolic boundaries against Islam may play in explaining these group-specific patterns.

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God Can Wait – New Migrants in Germany Between Early Adaptation and Religious Reorganization

Diehl

Koenig

2013

International Migration

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“…To address our first research question, we summarize what is distinctive about religious identity development in Muslim minority youth. Overall, minority youth in general and Muslims in particular seem to be more religious than their majority peers, yet when religious ties are continued or replaced after migration (Connor, 2008;Massey & Higgins, 2011;Van Tubergen, 2013). While there is indirect evidence of the distinct adaptive value of religious identity for minority youth in the acculturation context, we do not know how the migratory event impacts religious identity among minors whose religious development is at an earlier stage.…”

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Religious Identity and Acculturation of Immigrant Minority Youth

Phalet

Fleischmann

Hillekens

2018

European Psychologist

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Abstract. This review proposes an integrative contextual and developmental approach to religious identity development and acculturative adaptation among adolescents with an immigrant background. Relevant research with minority adolescents has addressed three main research questions: (1) What is distinctive about religious identity development in (Muslim) minority youth? (2) How does religious identity relate to their acculturative adaptation? and (3) What is the role of interpersonal and intercultural relations in specific acculturation contexts? In line with multiple developmental pathways in specific acculturation contexts, Muslim youth in Europe showed either stability or an increase in religious identification throughout adolescence, yet religious identity development varied greatly across religious communities and receiving societies. In support of the adaptive function of identity development in acculturating youth, (2) the religious identity of Muslim adolescents contributed positively to their psychological adaptation through the commitment to heritage culture values and identities; and it was either unrelated or conflicting with mainstream culture adoption and sociocultural adaptation, depending on specific acculturation contexts. Finally, religious identities reflect the bicultural social world of minority adolescents: strong and stable religious identities were premised on religious transmission in interpersonal relations with immigrant parents and minority peers. Moreover, religious identity conflict or compatibility with mainstream cultural values and identities was contingent on intercultural relations: perceived discrimination and Islamophobia fuel identity conflict in Muslim youth, whereas more harmonious intercultural relations enable compatible and adaptive pathways of religious identity.

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“…Cross-sectional analysis of all migrants observed at the first wave can still provide dynamic insights into migration-related shifts in behavioural patterns (for religiosity see Diehl and Koenig, 2013;Van Tubergen, 2013) and provide evidence about migration biographies and immigrant selectivity. In addition, longitudinal data are available for about half of the migrants surveyed in the SCIP project.…”

Section: Studying Integration Trajectories With Scip Data: Methodological Challengesmentioning

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Starting out: New migrants’ socio-cultural integration trajectories in four European destinations

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Migration trends are highly dynamic and the recent period has seen a transformation of migration to Europe. Studies of existing migrant stocks provide only limited information on these new migration flows and their implications for receiving societies. In the Norfacefunded SCIP project ('Socio-cultural integration processes among New Immigrants in Europe'), about 8000 recent migrants to four European destinations were surveyed soon after their arrival with many re-interviewed about 1.5 years later. The goal of the project was to obtain a more complete picture of integration processes in Europe and of the role of individual traits, group characteristics and reception contexts.SCIP data shed light on a dynamic phase in migrants' integration that has important implications for what happens later in the adaptation process. Furthermore, these data reveal the extent to which differences in integration patterns are apparent from the very beginning of migrants' stay or evolve over time. The SCIP project is comparative on the group and country level and thus helps to clarify whether differences in country-specific integration patterns reflect characteristics of host country institutions and ethnic boundaries -or can be attributed to the particularities of the immigrants these countries attract.This special issue demonstrates the potential of the data by bringing together six articles that tackle migrants' early adaptation, for example their language acquisition, the role of religiosity in finding a job, group differences in identification and acculturation, and experiences of discrimination across contexts. It also gives an insight into some limitations of the data set, describes the methodological challenges and possibilities in using it, and aims to inspire further research based on this unique data source.

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Religious change of new immigrants in the Netherlands: The event of migration

Cited by 30 publications

References 28 publications

God Can Wait – New Migrants in Germany Between Early Adaptation and Religious Reorganization

God Can Wait – New Migrants in Germany Between Early Adaptation and Religious Reorganization

Religious Identity and Acculturation of Immigrant Minority Youth

Starting out: New migrants’ socio-cultural integration trajectories in four European destinations

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