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The Grandchildren of Immigrants in Western Europe: Patterns of Assimilation Among the Emerging Third Generation

Migration scholars have long regarded the trajectory of the third generation as a critical test of assimilation; however, scholarship to date has been limited and largely focused on socioeconomic attainment. In this article, we rely on a large …

Fitting in at the Top? Stigma and the Negotiation of Belonging Among the New Immigrant Elite in France

While assimilation theories implicitly assume that immigrants’ acceptance as 'one of us' derives from their high levels of socioeconomic attainment in destination countries, little is known about the subjective experience of national belonging among …

Religious diversity in France: intergenerational dynamics and practices by origins

In 2019‑2020, 51% of the population aged 18 to 59 in metropolitan France said they had no religion. This religious disaffiliation has been increasing over the past ten years and concerns 58% of people with no migration background, 19% of immigrants …

Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany

During the 2015 “summer of welcome”, the mass arrival of refugees to Germany triggered widely publicised acts of pro-refugee solidarity among citizens. To date, scholarship has largely focused on hostility towards immigrants—including refugees-, and …

Computational approaches to migration and integration research: promises and challenges

Computational social science provides an innovative set of methodological tools that can help answer questions of substantive interest to migration and integration research. First, we provide a brief history of how computational approaches have …

Catalyst of hate? Ethnic insulting on YouTube in the aftermath of terror attacks in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, 2014-2017

In the last twenty years, several major terror attacks conducted in the name of political Islam hit Western Europe. We examine the impact of such terror attacks on hostile behavior on social media from a cross-national perspective. To this end, we …

Cracks in the Melting Pot? Religiosity and Assimilation Among the Diverse Muslim Population in France

The maintenance of high religiosity levels among Muslim youths in Western Europe constitutes a puzzle in need of an explanation. Focusing on France and using a new empirical strategy for the quantitative study of cultural difference between …

Has the Covid-19 pandemic undermined public support for a diverse society? Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread worries that the health crisis is resulting in generalized hostility towards minorities and reduced support for a diverse society. Relying on a large survey of diversity attitudes in Germany fielded before …

What’s Behind a Racial Category? Uncovering Heterogeneity Among Asian Americans Through A Data-Driven Typology

Despite emphasis on the importance of intragroup heterogeneity in much theoretically inclined migration and race scholarship, quantitative research routinely relies on split sample approaches in which ethnoracial groups are the categories of …

Immigration, Opportunity and Assimilation in a Technology Economy

We examine access to institutions and opportunity for entrepreneurs in a rising tech economy. A significant proportion of entrepreneurs and CEOs of tech firms in the American economy are either first or second-generation immigrant minorities. Are …