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- Tegunimataka, Anna
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Does First Language training matter for Immigrant children’s School Achievement? Evidence from a Danish school reform
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : Helsinki University Press. - 1799-649X. ; 11:3, s. 316-340
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores municipal variation in the implementation of a Danish educational reform. The aim of the reform was to increase the assimilation of immigrants, and removing mother-tongue training for first- and second-generation immigrants was believed to increase their proficiency in Danish. This article uses a difference-in-differences method to explore the effect of this removal on children’s educational outcomes in terms of grades in standardised tests in class nine, assessing both grades in the majority language Danish and grades in mathematics. This study, furthermore, takes potential heterogeneities in terms of gender and immigrant generation into consideration. This study shows that the expected results of the reform were not obtained. Rather the opposite that the removal of mother-tongue training leads to lower grades in Danish for boys and in mathematics for both boys and girls.
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- Tegunimataka, Anna, et al.
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Oceans Apart - Internal Migration in a Small Island Developing State: the case of Fiji
- 2021
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fiji is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the Pacific Ocean, with relatively population mobility. In this context, we study the individual-level characteristics of Fijian internal migration. Hence, our contribution lies in investigating migrant selectivity and differences in migratory behavior of different subgroups of the Fijian population. Specifically, we focus on factors such as gender, age, ethnicity, and socio-economic status (measured by education and occupation). We utilize information on Fijian internal migration from four waves of census data collected between 1976 and 2007. Our findings indicate that remote and rural-urban migrants are positively selected in terms socio-economic status. We also confirm that migrants between the age of 16 and 29 are more likely to migrate than any other age group, and we find women to be more likely to migrate than men, which can be linked to Fijian marriage traditions and increasing returns to education available for women in the urban areas incentivizing them to migrate. We also observe apparent ethnic differences in migratory behavior, with indigenous Fijians more likely to migrate than the other ethnic groups. However, this result is not stable over time, and in the latest census, remote Indo-Fijians have the highest likelihood of (remote)migration. This finding can be related to land leases not being renewed and ethnic tensions.
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- Tegunimataka, Anna
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The Intergenerational Effects of Intermarriage
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of International Migration and Integration. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1874-6365 .- 1488-3473. ; 22:1, s. 311-332
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study closely examines long-term outcomes of intermarriage in Denmark in terms of children’s educational performance, studying grades from final examinations. The study uses rich register data, where families are linked across generations, and contributes to the migration literature by providing new insights into the human capital formation in inter-ethnic families. The outcomes of children of intermarriage are very much in line with the outcomes of children with two native-born Danish parents. Compared to second-generation immigrants, children of intermarriage perform substantially better, and these differences remain even when school and family-level confounders are taken into account. Moreover, this paper explores the heterogeneous character of the 2.5 generation in Denmark and studies the importance of parental country of origin. Parental country of origin is of significance for the educational performance of children from intermarriage in Denmark, as the performance of children with a non-native parent originating from countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America is closer to that of second-generation immigrants, rather than natives. This association remains (for certain groups) when controlling for unobserved heterogeneity at the school and family level.
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- Vink, Maarten, et al.
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Long-Term Heterogeneity in Immigrant Naturalization : The Conditional Relevance of Civic Integration and Dual Citizenship
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Sociological Review. - : Oxford University Press. - 0266-7215 .- 1468-2672. ; 37:5, s. 751-765
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What are the long-term differences in the propensity of immigrants to acquire destination country citizenship under different institutional contexts and how do these vary between migrant groups? This article draws on micro-level longitudinal data from administrative registers in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden-three countries with widely different and changing requirements for the acquisition of citizenship-to track the naturalization propensity of eight complete migrant cohorts (1994-2001) up to 21 years after migration. We find that after two decades in the destination country, cumulative naturalization rates vary remarkably with over 80 per cent of migrants in Sweden, two-thirds in the Netherlands, and only around a third in Denmark having acquired citizenship. We observe lower rates and delayed naturalization for migrants, especially among those with lower levels of education, after language requirements and integration tests were introduced in Denmark and the Netherlands. Dual citizenship acceptance in the Netherlands and Sweden, by contrast, is associated with durably higher citizenship acquisition rates, especially, among migrants from EU and highly developed countries. These findings highlight the long-term but conditional relevance of citizenship policy for immigrant naturalization.
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