Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

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The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany

“…We believe we are the first to use a mover-based research design to study the effects of place on migrants' social integration, adding to existing evidence that is observational or relies on quasi-random refugee settlements (e.g. Åslund and Rooth, 2007;Damm, 2014;Braun and Dwenger, 2017;Aksoy, Poutvaara and Schikora, 2020;Jaschke, Sardoschau and Tabellini, 2021;Sale, 2021). We also introduce the use of movers to study the effect of places on native rates of befriending migrants, highlighting that place-based effects are not primarily picking up preferences of local natives.…”

In or Out? Xenophobic Violence and Foreigner Integration. Evidence from 19th century France

“…A second possible choice is to assimilate. Assimilation can take different forms: adopting natives' cultural norms (Jaschke et al, 2022), changing one's name or one's children's names (Fouka, 2019;Saavedra, 2021), marrying a native (Gould and Klor, 2016), or naturalizing (Ferrara and Fishback, 2022;Fouka, 2019). The third option consists basically of keeping one's situation as it is.…”

“…Exposure to violence reduces intermarriage rates (Fouka, 2020;Gould and Klor, 2016), knowledge of the host country's language (Steinhardt (2018), though see Chen and Xie (2020)), support for the host country's political system (Fouka, 2020;Grewal and Hamid, 2022). In contrast, others scholars have shown that individuals exposed to violence tend to pick for their newborns names common in the host country (Chen and Xie, 2020;Fouka, 2019;Saavedra, 2021), adopt the cultural practice of their host community (Jaschke et al, 2022), and apply more for naturalization (Fouka, 2019).…”

Labor market integration, local conditions and inequalities: Evidence from refugees in Switzerland

“…They find that positive attitudes towards migrants at the time of arrival, have a positive effect on refugees' economic and social integration. On the other hand, Jaschke et al (2020) rely on the questions on attitudes towards migrants available in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Survey of Refugees. They find that more negative attitudes towards migrants lead to a faster cultural convergence of refugees.…”