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A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and IntegrationLinked Life-Events. Leaving Parental Home in Turkish Immigrant and Native Families in Germany

A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration: Linked Life-Events. Leaving Parental Home... [This study analyses the leaving of the parental home by native Germans and immigrants from Turkey. By elaborating on the concept of “linked-life events”, which describes the synchronicity in timing of two different transitions in adolescent life, I expect that the synchronicity of marriage and leaving parental home has substantially declined in post-war Germany as a result of trends in modernization, secularization and individualization, especially since the late 1960s. The question of whether such a decline occurred also in the group of Turkish immigrants will be tested empirically by using data from the German Gender & Generations Survey Program. In the first step of this article, the idea of linked events in the life-course and normative bonding in communities will be discussed. Subsequently, it will be elaborated on why the timing of leaving home might differ between natives and Turkish immigrants in Germany. It will be argued that patterns of normative bonding differ between both groups particularly with regard to gender. In the first part of the empirical section, religiosity and family-related norm orientations of the two groups will be compared. A comparison of survivor functions of different subgroups will then provide first insights into differences in the timing of leaving home. By using the concepts of normative bonding and linked life-events, it will be investigated to what extent the intervening life-event of marriage has an impact on the rate at which respondents leave parental home and whether there are interaction effects of religiosity and norm orientations with regard to gender. It will be examined whether the impact of marriage is noticeably stronger in the Turkish group and if there are additional gender-specific patterns. Finally, by using a competing-risk perspective, birth-cohort effects and processes of “de-linking” of life-events will be investigated in order to compare the processes of individualization of natives and Turkish immigrants.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and IntegrationLinked Life-Events. Leaving Parental Home in Turkish Immigrant and Native Families in Germany

Editors: Wingens, Matthias; Windzio, Michael; de Valk, Helga; Aybek, Can
Windzio, Michael
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration — Jun 7, 2011
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
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978-94-007-1544-8
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187 –209
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-1545-5_9
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Abstract

[This study analyses the leaving of the parental home by native Germans and immigrants from Turkey. By elaborating on the concept of “linked-life events”, which describes the synchronicity in timing of two different transitions in adolescent life, I expect that the synchronicity of marriage and leaving parental home has substantially declined in post-war Germany as a result of trends in modernization, secularization and individualization, especially since the late 1960s. The question of whether such a decline occurred also in the group of Turkish immigrants will be tested empirically by using data from the German Gender & Generations Survey Program. In the first step of this article, the idea of linked events in the life-course and normative bonding in communities will be discussed. Subsequently, it will be elaborated on why the timing of leaving home might differ between natives and Turkish immigrants in Germany. It will be argued that patterns of normative bonding differ between both groups particularly with regard to gender. In the first part of the empirical section, religiosity and family-related norm orientations of the two groups will be compared. A comparison of survivor functions of different subgroups will then provide first insights into differences in the timing of leaving home. By using the concepts of normative bonding and linked life-events, it will be investigated to what extent the intervening life-event of marriage has an impact on the rate at which respondents leave parental home and whether there are interaction effects of religiosity and norm orientations with regard to gender. It will be examined whether the impact of marriage is noticeably stronger in the Turkish group and if there are additional gender-specific patterns. Finally, by using a competing-risk perspective, birth-cohort effects and processes of “de-linking” of life-events will be investigated in order to compare the processes of individualization of natives and Turkish immigrants.]

Published: Jun 7, 2011

Keywords: Norm Orientation; Normative Bonding; Parental Home; German Sample; Turkish Woman

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