Status and Ethnic Identity (eBook)

Andreas Genoni is a researcher in the Migration and Mobility Research Unit at the Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany.

I INTRODUCTION 1 The notion of ethnic identity<br> 2 Studying ethnic identity <br> 3 The role of status <br> 4 Research interest <br> 5 Outline of this book <br><br /><br> II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK <br> 6 The two building blocks of social production function theory <br> 6.1 Resources, goals, needs and utility: The hierarchy of social production functions <br> 6.2 Maintaining and improving personal need satisfaction <br> 7 Social production functions and context <br> 8 A general model to explain migrants' ethnic identity <br> 8.1 Individual resources <br> 8.2 Contexts and their conditions <br> 8.3 Need satisfaction of first- and second-generation migrants <br> 8.4 Five underlying mechanisms of ethnic identification <br> 8.5 Explaining migrants' ethnic identity <br> 9 Summary <br><br /><br> III DATA <br> 10 The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) <br> 10.1 Starting cohort (SC) 6 <br> 10.2 The sample <br><br /><br> IV EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION <br> 11 A short note on multinomial logistic regression analysis <br> 12 Analysis 1: Status and ethnic identity: The role of generation status and migrant recognisability <br> 12.1 An intergenerational perspective on status and ethnic identity <br> 12.2 The role of migrant recognisability <br> 12.3 Model specification and analytical strategy <br> 12.4 Findings <br> 12.5 Discussion <br> 13 Analysis 2: Status mismatch and ethnic identity <br> 13.1 Theoretical considerations and expectations <br> 13.2 Model specification and analytical strategy <br> 13.3 Findings <br> 13.4 Discussion <br> 14 Analysis 3: Exposure time, ethnic identity and the role of status <br> 14.1 An intergenerational perspective on exposure time and ethnic identity <br> 14.2 Cumulative (dis)advantages? Identity differences between lower- and higher-status migrants over exposure time <br> 14.3 Model specification and analytical strategy <br> 14.4 Findings <br> 14.5 Discussion <br><br /><br> V CONCLUDING REMARKS <br> 15 Limitations <br> 16 Main results <br> 17 Future avenues <br><br /><br> REFERENCES <br> APPENDIX <br> A Variable overview <br> a. Dependent variable <br> b. Explaining variables <br> c. Other variables <br> d. Dealing with missingness: Multiple imputation with chained equations <br> B Additional analyses <br> <br>