"Pathways to Success. The Second Generation in Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands"

Open Lectures Autumn 2014

  • Date: Dec 11, 2014
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maurice Crul (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Maurice Crul is a professor of Sociology at the VU University in Amsterdam and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His most recent books include The Changing Face of World Cities co-authored with John Mollenkopf and Superdiversity. A New Vision on Integration. He is international chair of the IMISCOE network. Last year he was a distinguished guest professor at the Advanced Research Collaborative of CUNY in New York.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
"Pathways to Success. The Second Generation in Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands"

For more details please contact buethe(at)mmg.mpg.de.

Research on children of immigrants has focused mostly on the group that has been unsuccessful in school or in the labour market. The group that is however successful against all odds is growing. In this presentation Maurice Crul will show, based on the outcomes of his present ERC project, the substantial differences in pathways to success for Turkish second generation adolescents in four countries: Germany, France, Sweden and The Netherlands. The project findings are drawn from a large survey on the second generation in Europe (TIES) and 180 in-depth interviews with successful professionals. The outcomes show the importance of the national and local integration context in explaining both the size and the differences in pathways to success.


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