Trinity Immigration Initiative
Parallel Societies or Overlapping Identites?
This parallel societies or overlapping identities research programme studies integration processes of immigrants in Europe and in Ireland. The programme currently has six pillars:
1. Immigrants’ values and attitudes in Europe
Using large-scale multi-national surveys, this study compares attitudes and values of immigrants with the native population in European countries aiming to disentangle forces shaping these attitudes and values at the level of the country of residence and the country of origin. The study examines interpersonal trust and confidence in public institutions, attitudes towards gays and lesbians, gender attitudes and behaviour and the subjective well-being of immigrants.
2. Language proficiency and socio-economic integration of Eastern European migrants in Dublin
Using a snowball sample, this study examines what determines different degrees of fluency among Eastern European migrants in Dublin and how that affects their social and labour market integration,
3. Careers and work values of Polish immigrants in Dublin
Using a respondent driven sample of Polish migrants in Dublin (-> Polonia in Dublin), this study aims to examine how the careers of Polish migrants developed since their last job in Poland and how the working conditions, career trajectories and aspiration affect the their work values.
4. Network and social capital of Polish migrants in Dublin
Using a respondent driven sample of Polish migrants in Dublin (-> Polonia in Dublin), this study examines the composition of different network types of Polish migrants with a special emphasis on the bi-national nature of trust networks and class-cleavage of networks among Poles and of Poles with Irish.
5. Leisure activities of immigrants: Constraints or discrimination?
Using various data sources, this project aims to examine how various constraints and the experience of discrimination shape the leisure activities of Eastern European migrants in Ireland
6. Acculturation of Polish adolescents in Ireland
Using a qualitative panel, this study follows the first years of Polish teenagers who recently arrived in Ireland.
7. Socio-cultural integration of recent Polish migrants in Ireland
This project is part of a European collaborative research project aiming to study the cause and consequences of different form of socio-cultural integration of immigrants in Europe in the first years after they arrived in the destination countries (-> SCIP)
Data collections for these projects are financed by IRCHSS under the ‘Research Development Initiative’ scheme and by NORFACE under the ‘Migration in Europe - Social, Economic, Cultural and Policy Dynamics’ programme.
Academic leader: Dr. Peter Mühlau, muhlaup@tcd.ie
Research student: Antje Röder, roedera@tcd.ie
Associated research assistant: Monika Kaliszewska, kaliszwm@tcd.ie
Associated research student: Julia Sevtsenko
Associated research student: Beata Sokolowska
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