Contact to Natives Among Recent Turkish Migrants in Germany: Gender Differences and Potential Explanations.

ABSTRACT: Migrant men and women still differ extensively in their integration chances within receiving societies. Research suggests that next to educational discrepancies and traditional gender roles, migrant men benefit particularly from their contact to natives who facilitate the access to other relevant resources such as employment. However, we know actually very little about how recent migrant men and women build their social networks within receiving societies, how their networks differ, and why they potentially differ. In this paper I therefore study Turkish migrants in Germany within their first years after migration and the extent to which Turkish men and women differ in their likelihood to have contact to natives. Theoretically, I explore three main determinants for potential gender differe

SUBMITTER: Seibel V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8022483 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature