Trinity Immigration Initiative
Parallel Societies or Overlapping Identites?
The parallel societies or overlapping identities research project studied integration processes of immigrants in Europe and in Ireland. The main study used large-scale multi-national surveys in order to compare 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 examined interpersonal trust and confidence in public institutions, attitudes towards gays and lesbians, gender attitudes and behaviour and the subjective well-being of immigrants. The project also functioned as seed for data-collection projects such as 'Polonia in Dublin' (funded by IRCHSS) and 'Europe on the move' (SCIP, funded by NORFACE) and associated research on language profeciency, social network, teenager acculturation and labour market integration of Polish migrants in Ireland.
This parallel societies or overlapping identities research programme studied integration processes of immigrants in Europe and in Ireland. The programme had six pillars:
1. Immigrants’ values and attitudes in Europe
Using large-scale multi-national surveys, this study compared 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 examined 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 examined 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 aimed to examine how the careers of Polish migrants developed since their last job in Poland and how the working conditions, career trajectories and aspiration affected 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 examined 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 aimed 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 followed the first years of Polish teenagers who recently arrived in Ireland.
7. Socio-cultural integration of recent Polish migrants in Ireland
This project was 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 were 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
Publication (until May 2012):
Antje Röder, Does mobility matter for attitudes to Europe? A multi-level analysis of immigrants' attitudes to European unification, Political Studies, 59, (2), 2011, p458 – 471
Antje Röder and Peter Mühlau, Discrimination, exclusion and immigrants' confidence in public institutions in Europe, European Societies, 13, (4), 2011, p535 – 567
Antje Röder, Socio-cultural integration of immigrants in Europe - A multi-level analysis of patterns and determinants, Trinity College Dublin, 2011 (unpublished PhD dissertation)
Antje Röder and Peter Mühlau, Low expectations or different evaluations – What explains immigrants' high levels of trust in host country institutions?, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39, (5), 2012, p770 - 792
Peter Mühlau, Employment and earnings mobility of Polish migrant in the recession in Ireland. Studia Sociologica (forthcoming)
Antje Röder and Peter Mühlau, Trust of immigrants in criminal justice institutions in Europe: The role of discrimination and expectations, European Journal of Criminology, (forthcoming)
Beata Sokołowska, ‘‘Not everything that is Legal is Ethical’ – the lessons learned from the exploratory Longitudinal Acculturation Study with Polish Immigrant Teenagers in Ireland Irish Journal of Anthropology (forthcoming)
Beata Sokołowska, Why is it not always desirable to 'fit? Migratory narratives
from Ireland. Studia Sociologica (forthcoming)
Pages relating to the project have been archived and were last updated in July 2012.
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