Employment and education-occupation mismatches of immigrants and their children in the netherlands: comparisons with the native majority group
Autor/in:
Khoudja, Yassine
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 3, S 119-141
Inhalt: This study examines the labor market integration of immigrants and their children in the Netherlands focusing on employment and over- and underqualification. Using data from the first wave of the Netherlands Longitudinal Life-Course Study (NELLS), the analysis shows disadvantages in employment probabilities for men and women from different foreign origin groups compared to the Dutch majority even after accounting for differences in human capital. Ethnic differences in employment probabilities are lower, but still visible, when comparing only respondents who obtained post-secondary education in the Netherlands. Further, first-generation immigrant men from Turkey and Morocco are at higher risk of being overeducated than Dutch majority men whereas this is not the case for second generation men and first- and secondgeneration minority women. Substantial ethnic difference in the likelihood of being undereducated are not prevalent. Having a foreign compared to a Dutch degree is related to lower labor market outcomes, but this negative relation is more pronounced for women than for men. Finally, there is some indication that overeducation is somewhat less common in the public sector than in the private sector, but minorities do not benefit more from this than the Dutch majority.
Schlagwörter:Niederlande; Netherlands; Einwanderung; immigration; Migrant; migrant; Integration; integration; Bildungsniveau; level of education; Qualifikationsniveau; level of qualification; Überqualifikation; over qualification; öffentlicher Sektor; public sector; Ethnizität; ethnicity; Erwerbsarbeit; gainful work; Humankapital; human capital; Mann; man; woman; erste Generation; first generation; zweite Generation; second generation
"Honour" killings in Europe as an effect of migration process: perspective for Poland
Autor/in:
Sadowa, Katarzyna
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 58, S 83-90
Inhalt: In this paper the author analyses the phenomenon of so-called honour killings as an actual problem of European countries. The author shows that the issue is present in Europe as the result of immigration process and simultaneity is far from resolving. Moreover, while there is a great risk of its' increase, the proper combating measures are needed. As the author comes from Poland, the main aim of the publication is to stress that the problem of "honour" killings and wider - "honour" based violence is a growing threat to this country. Therefore, adequate strategy preventing the issue should be prepare now. Firstly, the author shortly characterizes the issue by providing proper definition and demonstrates its scale. The of the actual problem of "honour" killings in Europe is described especially by analysing the causal link between the immigration process and honour based violence. The second part of the publication contains the analysis of United Kingdom's strategy for fighting against "honour" based acts and its evaluation as an example of well-developed preventing measures. Finally, the author examines the recent Polish cases of "honour" killings and shows the risk of their growing impact on Polish society and law that justifies taking immediate steps (creating adequate strategy) to deter the increase of the problem.
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14 (2013) 1, 21 S
Inhalt: "Urbanisierungs-, Modernisierungs- und Akkulturationsprozesse sind als Ursachen von Körperbild- und Essstörungen hinlänglich bekannt. Frauen, die einem westlichen Schönheitsideal von Schlankheit ausgesetzt sind, sind hiernach eher in Gefahr, mit ihrem Körper unzufrieden zu sein. Was zu dieser Unzufriedenheit beiträgt, kann mit Bordo's Theorie des 'Empire of Images' (2003) und mit der 'Objectification Theory' von Fredrickson und Roberts (1997) gefasst werden: Beide Theorien gehen davon aus, dass weibliche Körper in westlichen Gesellschaften als passiv erachtet werden, und dass sich Frauen in der Folge bemühen, ihre Körper so zu bemessen, zu ändern und zu kontrollieren, dass er westlichen Standards von Schönheit und Attraktivität genügt. Die Homogenisierung, Normalisierung und Objektivierung von Körper(bilder)n wurde bisher weder für Immigrantinnen noch in Bezug auf Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen verschiedenen ethno-kulturellen Gemeinschaften untersucht. Die hier vorgestellte Studie folgte bei der Datenerhebung und -analyse einem partizipativen Forschungsansatz. Insgesamt wurden sechs Fokusgruppen, jeweils drei mit tamilischen und drei mit chinesischen Müttern von Grundschulkindern und 13 Einzelgespräche durchgeführt. In diesen wurden neu nach Kanada immigrierte Mütter gebeten, kulturelle Vorstellungen von Schönheit zwischen ihrem Herkunftsland und der kanadischen Gesellschaft zu benennen und zu vergleichen. Für die befragten tamilischen und chinesischen Mütter fanden sich hierbei Ähnlichkeiten in Bezug auf Homogenisierungs-, Normalisierungs- und Objektivierungsprozesse ihrer Körper(bilder). Die Frauen und deren Töchter internalisierten westliche Schlankheitsideale und zeigten eine gegenüber ihrem Herkunftsland erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit für den eigenen Körper." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The influence of urbanization, modernization and acculturation processes as causes for the development of body image concerns and eating disorders are documented in the literature. Women exposed to a Western idea of 'beauty' as skinny and thin may be more vulnerable to body dissatisfaction. The elements of Western society that contribute to women's body dissatisfaction are captured and described in Bordo's empire of images (2003) and Fredrickson and Roberts' objectification theories (1997). Both theories rest on the assumptions that women's bodies are seen as passive elements in Western society, and that as a result women often engage in activities that measure, modify, and control their bodies to meet Western standards of beauty and attractiveness. Homogenization, normalization, and objectification have not been studied among immigrant women, nor have similarities and differences been explored across ethno-cultural communities. Participatory methodology informed the data collection process and analysis. A series of three separate parent focus groups were held with each of the Tamil and Mainland Chinese mothers of elementary school children respectively, for a total of six focus groups and 13 participants. Through dialogue, newcomer immigrant mothers were invited to define their cultural idea of beauty and to confront it with the Canadian one. For both Chinese and Tamil mothers, the homogenization, normalization, and objectification of their bodies appeared to occur in similar ways. Immigrant women and their daughters tend to internalize the Western ideals of women's thinness; this makes them self-conscious about their own bodies." (author's abstract)
Quelle: Journal of Public Health, 18 (2010) 5, S 489-496
Inhalt: Aim: This study aimed to describe perceptions and experiences related to access and utilization of health care services of African and Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal. Subjects and methods: Six focus groups were conducted with 35 African and Brazilian women with low income and living in Lisbon, chosen through purposive sampling. Content analysis was undertaken through identification of themes and categories. Results: African and Brazilian women expressed different perceptions and patterns of use of health care services. Most participants pointed out several barriers to access and utilization of services related to legal issues, economic constraints or health professionals' attitudes. Conclusion: These results highlight the challenges to providing health care within a multicultural setting and the need to assure the provision of integrated and comprehensive health care services. Improving access to general health care is essential in order to minimize disadvantages from vulnerable subgroups, like immigrant women. Supporting better integration into the health system may lead to improved health outcomes.
Schlagwörter:perception; Afrikaner; Gesundheit; discrimination; health care delivery system; Wahrnehmung; Gesundheitswesen; African; Erfahrung; Diskriminierung; Migrant; Benchmarking; sozioökonomische Faktoren; Einwanderung; attitude; benchmarking; migrant; Krankheit; socioeconomic factors; comparison; woman; Portugal; Portugal; sociocultural factors; soziokulturelle Faktoren; immigration; health; Vergleich; illness; Einstellung; experience; Immigrant women; Perceptions; Experiences; Access and utilization of health care services
Insecure belongings: a family of ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union in Germany
Titelübersetzung:Unsichere Zugehörigkeiten: Lebens- und Familiengeschichte von drei Frauen einer ethnisch deutschen Familie aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion
Autor/in:
Ballenthien, Jana; Büching, Corinne
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10 (2009) 3, 26 S
Inhalt: In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nach der Transformation von Zugehörigkeitskonstruktionen im Laufe des Lebens, eingebettet in die Familien- und Kollektivgeschichte, nachgegangen. Anhand der Falldarstellung dreier Frauen einer Familie, die als ethnische Deutsche aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion Anfang der 1990er Jahre nach Deutschland einwanderten, zeigen wir, wie durch den Migrationsprozess und die Fremdzuschreibungen im Ankunftsland Fragen der Zugehörigkeit ausgelöst werden. Es wird deutlich, welche Strategien der biografischen Arbeit die unterschiedlichen Familienangehörigen jeweils leisten. Dies ist auf ihre spezifischen lebensgeschichtlichen Erfahrungen – und damit verbunden ihre Zugehörigkeit zu unterschiedlichen historischen Generationen – zurückzuführen. So werden bei der Großmutter während der Migration nach Deutschland die Erlebnisse der Deportation von der Wolgarepublik nach Sibirien im Zuge des Zweiten Weltkriegs reaktiviert und ihre Zugehörigkeitskonstruktion als Wolgadeutsche wird verfestigt. Ihre Schwiegertochter hingegen nähert sich nach der Migration der Frage nach ihrer eigenen Zugehörigkeit über die Frage nach der Zugehörigkeit zu einer religiösen Wir-Gruppe an. Die Enkelin wiederum beschäftigt sich vor und nach der Migration relativ erfolgreich damit, die Verbindung zwischen der Zugehörigkeit zu ihrer Herkunftsfamilie und ihren Peergroups in der – zunächst durch die russische Dominanzkultur geprägten – Sowjetgesellschaft und später in der deutschen Mehrheitsgesellschaft zu finden.
Inhalt: This article takes a look at the transformation of constructions of belonging during the course of life, and how they are embedded in family and collective history. Based on a case study of three women belonging to one family, who as ethnic Germans migrated in the early 1990's from the Soviet Union to Germany, we were able to demonstrate how questions of belonging were initiated by the migration process and the attributes ascribed to them in their country of arrival. Different family members were seen to perform different strategies of biographical work. This was due to their unique autobiographical experience and their belonging to different historical generations. Thus, the grandmother's experience of deportation from the Volga Republic to Siberia during the course of the Second World War was reactivated during her emigration to Germany. This reconfirmed her construction of belonging as a Volga German. Whereas after migration her daughter in law conceptualizes her belonging as a question of membership of a religious we-group. Her granddaughter, however, before and after emigration successfully searched a connection of the sense of belonging to her family of origin and her peer groups, first in Soviet society which was influenced by the predominantly Russian culture, and later in German society.
Schlagwörter:post-socialist country; generation; soziale Herkunft; Erwachsener; family member; Migration; Russland; kulturelle Faktoren; Federal Republic of Germany; Russia; Jugendlicher; Konstruktion; late migrant; Biographie; postsozialistisches Land; Einwanderung; transatlantische Beziehungen; social background; German; cultural factors; life career; adolescent; Generation; adult; Spätaussiedler; Familie; identity; transatlantic relations; woman; Identität; Deutscher; Peer Group; family; peer group; migration; Religion; religion; Lebenslauf; immigration; biography; UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat; construction; Familienangehöriger; USSR successor state; biographies of migration; construction of collective belonging; biographical work; former Soviet Union; Migrationsbiografien; kollektive Zugehörigkeitskonstruktionen; biografische Arbeit; ehemalige Sowjetunion
Negotiating the transnationality of social control: stories of immigrant women in South Florida
Titelübersetzung:Das Verhandeln der Transnationalität sozialer Kontrolle: Geschichten von Einwanderinnen in Südflorida
Autor/in:
Cooper, Robin; Linstroth, J. P.; Chaitin, Julia
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10 (2009) 3, 23 S
Inhalt: Aus historischer Sicht waren junge Frauen Objekte sozialer Kontrolle, und dies oft im Namen töchterlicher Ehre. Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit einem bestimmten Phänomen dieser sozialen Kontrolle, wie es von Immigrantinnen der ersten und zweiten Generation aus Kuba und Haiti in Südflorida in den Vereinigten Staaten erlebt wird. Wir nähern uns dieser Thematik durch die Analyse der Lebensgeschichten von sechs Immigrantinnen dieser Länder. Die biografischen Studien dieser Immigrantinnen zeigen, wie soziale Kontrolle im Zusammenhang mit Transnationalismus durch Kontrollprozesse, Verinnerlichung von geschlechtsspezifischen Erwartungen und dominantem Diskurs operiert. Zudem wird dargelegt, wie soziale Kontrolle weiblichen Raum manipuliert und begrenzt und über Räume auf transnationale Weise von den Heimatländern zu den Gastgeberländern agiert.
Das zentrale Ergebnis der Studie ist, dass die Umsiedlung einer Familie in die Vereinigten Staaten, um politische, soziale oder ökonomische Freiheit zu erlangen, nicht zwangsläufig zur Befreiung aus der restriktiven sozialen Kontrolle der jungen Frauen aus solchen Immigrant/innenfamilien führt. Der "Transnationalismus der sozialen Kontrolle" wird daher als die hegemonische Domination von weiblichen Körpern und Verhaltensweisen durch die Mimesis von vergegenständlichten und erinnerten Räumen der Heimatländer in den Gastgebergesellschaften verstanden.
Inhalt: Historically, young women have been the object of social control, often in the name of filial honor. This article addresses a particular phenomenon of such social control as it is experienced by first- and second-generation female immigrants from Cuba and Haiti who are living in South Florida in the United States. This theme is explored by analyzing the life stories of six immigrants from these countries. The biographical stories of immigrant women reveal how social control operates in the context of transnationalism through controlling processes, internalization of gender expectations, and dominating discourse. It is also argued how social control manipulates and restricts female spaces and operates across spaces in a transnational manner from homelands to host nations. The main conclusion of the study is that a family's relocation to the United States for the purpose of political, social, or economic freedom does not necessarily result in liberation from restrictive social control for young women from such immigrant families. The "transnationality of social control" is therefore understood as the hegemonic domination of female bodies and behaviors through the mimesis of reified and remembered spaces of homelands in host societies.
Schlagwörter:Latin America; North America; first generation; erste Generation; Kuba; transnationale Beziehungen; Tochter; Biographie; Central America; Nordamerika; honor; Einwanderung; United States of America; gender; life career; migrant; Haiti; Weiblichkeit; Ehre; femininity; USA; daughter; oppression; woman; Entwicklungsland; Cuba; migration; Caribbean Region; soziale Kontrolle; Lateinamerika; transnational relations; Migration; Unterdrückung; Diskurs; discourse; Migrant; second generation; Haiti; Karibischer Raum; Familie; social control; Mittelamerika; family; Zuwanderung; Lebenslauf; biography; immigration; developing country; zweite Generation; social control; transnational; dominating discourse; controlling processes; women immigrants; honor and shame; transnational; dominanter Diskurs; Kontrollprozesse; Einwanderinnen; Ehre und Schande