Project description DEENESFRITPL Partnership formation in the context of refugee migration Between 2015 and 2016, Germany received large numbers of young unmarried male refugees, who arrived from culturally distant countries and settled in areas with largely non-existent co-ethnic communities. With the situation likely to complicate the process of refugees forming relationships, the EU-funded PARFORM project aims to conduct research that will provide illuminating answers. To that end, it will collect novel three-wave panel data on male refugee migrants from Syria and Afghanistan and administer specially-tailored instruments to established representative panel studies (e.g. CILS4EU-DE) to collect data on the German population. The project's findings will have significant policy implications for the social integration of refugees in Germany and Europe as a whole. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective In 2015-16 Germany received large numbers of young unmarried male refugees arriving from culturally distant countries and settling in largely non-existent co-ethnic communities. This situation is likely to complicate the process of refugees’ partnership formation. Against this background the project seeks to answer three research questions:1. To what extent is the partnership formation of newly arrived refugees in Germany determined by the demographic situation, and how does the process compare to patterns observed among the established German population (both majority and minority ethnic groups)? 2. How do social media and online dating affect partnership formation among recent refugee immigrants? 3. How do established members of German society react to refugees’ mating attempts, and how is this reflected in immigrants’ partnership patterns?Whereas the first research question is largely descriptive, the others seek to advance the field’s theoretical and analytic frameworks by extending our understanding of opportunity structures in the age of the internet and social media, and conceptualizing partnership formation as a genuinely two-sided interactive process. PARFORM will (1) collect novel three-wave panel data on male refugee migrants from Syria and Afghanistan and (2) administer specially tailored instruments to two established representative panel studies (GESIS panel and CILS4EU-DE) to collect data on the established German population. Multi-actor, multi-time and multi-level data will be analysed using advanced methods of network, panel and hierarchical data analyses.Through a combination of theoretical innovations, methodological rigour and analytic depth, PARFORM will contribute to scholarly debates on immigrants’ partnership formation in the multidisciplinary fields of the sociology of migration, demography and network studies. Its findings will have policy implications for the social integration of refugees in Germany and Europe as a whole. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetsocial sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrations Keywords Refugee migrants partnership formation social integration Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2019-COG - ERC Consolidator Grant Call for proposal ERC-2019-COG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM Net EU contribution € 1 087 485,25 Address Schloss 68161 Mannheim Germany See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Mannheim, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM Germany Net EU contribution € 1 087 485,25 Address Schloss 68161 Mannheim See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Mannheim, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 INFAS INSTITUT FUR ANGEWANDTE SOZIALWISSENSCHAFT GMBH Germany Net EU contribution € 912 512,75 Address Kurt schumacher strasse 24 53113 Bonn See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Bonn, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
