Project description DEENESFRITPL Understanding the lives of children and grandchildren of refugees More than 2.5 million refugees have been granted residence in Europe over the last ten years. A lot is known about the inequalities that are experienced by immigrants who arrive as refugees, but much less is known about their children’s lives. Aiming to fill this gap in research, the EU-funded project REFU-GEN will establish a new framework for intergenerational adaptation by comparing four domains of life for the descendants of refugees: (1) their education, income and employment, (2) their family formation, (3) where and how they live, and (4) their health. Using cutting-edge research methods to analyse longitudinal data for the whole population of Sweden, REFU-GEN represents the first comprehensive intergenerational study of refugees, their children and their grandchildren. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective More than 2.5 million refugees have been granted residence in Europe over the last ten years and their long-run adaptation is a fundamental societal challenge. Adaptation can only be evaluated over the long-run by making intergenerational comparisons between immigrants and their descendants, yet research has almost entirely overlooked this topic for refugees, not least because most countries lack both data and significant numbers of descendants of refugees. Prior studies focus on isolated domains of life and are limited by small-samples, methodological weaknesses, and a failure to compare the descendants of refugees and non-refugees.This proposal represents the first comprehensive intergenerational study of the descendants of refugees. My aim is to establish a new framework for the adaptation of refugee’s descendants across four domains of life: socio-economic status, health, family formation and residential context. I will use cutting-edge research methods to analyse longitudinal data for the whole population of Sweden from 1968-2019. Thanks to the unique combination of this comprehensive data, and Sweden’s long history as a refugee-receiving country, I will be able to make ground-breaking contributions: [1] To reveal the diverse nature of intergenerational adaptation for the second-generation children of refugees, and establish to what extent this is determined by their parents’ adaptation[2] To uncover the mechanisms of intergenerational adaptation for the second-generation children of refugees[3] To establish the nature and extent of intergenerational adaptation beyond the second generation, for third-generation grandchildren of refugees Answers to these questions have the potential to generate enormous gains in understanding, and establish a much-needed holistic evidence base concerning the long-run adaptation of the descendants of refugees. I will use Sweden as a laboratory to develop theories that can be generalised to other European countries. Fields of science social sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrations Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2020-STG - ERC STARTING GRANTS Call for proposal ERC-2020-STG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-STG - Starting Grant Coordinator STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET Net EU contribution € 1 406 237,00 Address Universitetsvagen 10 10691 Stockholm Sweden See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län 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 (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET Sweden Net EU contribution € 1 406 237,00 Address Universitetsvagen 10 10691 Stockholm See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län 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
