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Understanding Life Trajectories of Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe and Projecting Future Trends

Description du projet

Que réserve l’avenir aux immigrants d’Europe?

L’histoire de l’Europe a été façonnée par les migrations. Celles-ci joueront également un rôle important dans son avenir en plaçant les concepts d’intégration et de diversité au premier plan de la discussion politique. Le projet MigrantLife, financé par l’UE, nous aidera à mieux comprendre la relation entre les sphères de la vie que sont l’emploi, le logement et la famille et la cause des trajectoires de vie plus ou moins réussies des immigrants et de leurs descendants. Le projet examinera comment les trajectoires de vie évoluent et interagissent dans l’existence des immigrants de première génération et de leurs enfants résidant en France, en Allemagne, en Suède et au Royaume-Uni. Il s’intéressera également à la façon dont les facteurs liés au contexte sociétal d’un immigrant finissent par façonner son propre parcours de vie.

Objectif

In recent decades, European countries have witnessed increasing immigration streams and ethnic heterogeneity of their populations. Facilitating immigrant integration and social cohesion has become a major societal issue. The project moves beyond previous research by first investigating how employment, housing and family trajectories evolve and interact in the lives of descendants of post-WWII immigrants and post-1990 immigrants in the UK, France, Germany and Sweden, and how factors related to a societal context, an early life context and critical transitions shape their life histories. Second, the study will project their future life trajectories using innovative simulation techniques, considering the main life domains and diversity between and within immigrant groups. Although recent studies report substantial diversity in employment, in housing and in family patterns among descendants of post-war immigrants and recent immigrants in Europe, the causes of this heterogeneity remain far from clear. Furthermore, it is not known whether observed differences between immigrants and natives are short-term outcomes in a long-term process of cultural and economic integration or rather reflections of different pathways and outcomes for immigrants and their descendants. The project will exploit large-scale longitudinal data from four countries and apply advanced longitudinal methods, including multichannel sequence analysis and multilevel event history analysis. Microsimulation will be applied to project life histories for immigrants and their descendants. The project will significantly deepen our understanding of the relationships between the three life domains, and the causes of less and more successful life trajectories among immigrants and their descendants. This project will show whether the current heterogeneity between and within immigrant and minority groups vanishes over time or rather persists, suggesting an increasing diversity of European societies.

Régime de financement

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Institution d’accueil

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 2 364 895,00
Adresse
NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE
KY16 9AJ St Andrews
Royaume-Uni

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Région
Scotland Eastern Scotland Clackmannanshire and Fife
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 2 364 895,00

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