Two new research projects at the 16th ESA conference
My colleagues were in Porto to talk about two joint studies in-the-making
Official ESA conference poster
While I took advantage of everyone being OUT of office to be productive IN the office, my dear colleagues Lenore and Nico presented ongoing mutual work in sunny Porto at the 16th ESA conference.
An integration paradox among the most religious migrants?
The joint study with Lenore Sauer and Nadja Milewski investigates the relationship between migrants’ level of education, degree of religiosity, and feelings of belongingness. We use data from the TransFAR project, a BiB survey about Eritrean and Syrian recent refugees in Germany. In essence, our study examines whether the degree of religiosity is an explaining factor for the so-called integration paradox, the phenomenon that highly educated migrants do not really feel as integrated as one would expect.
Return of the failed? The subjective well-being of German returnees
Nico Stawarz presented the second study, in which we investigate shifts in the subjective well-being of German migrants in the course of their return to Germany. By looking at well-being trajectories of Germans with different return motives, we put contradicting theories about reasons for return migration to the test. Are returnees really those who lost the game of migration and travel back defeated, or could they be those who have successfully completed their stay abroad? This is collaborative work with Martijn Hendriks (Erasmus University Rotterdam).