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Education and Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Liu, Tianqi LU (2023) EKHS12 20231
Department of Economic History
Abstract
The thesis reviews research about assimilation and education of Turkish immigrants in Germany. The thesis describes Human Capital theory, multiculture and cultural hegemony and segmented assimilation model. By using descriptive quantitative methods, it shows that Turkish-German community tends to be isolated and exclusive mainly due to their family and father centered social structure which was brought by historical reason, and they also suffer from serious stereotype and institutional discrimination in German education system which is one the reasons why Turkish-German are more low-educated than natives. Education is not playing an important role in Turkish community as much as natives by itself but language proficiency, which is usually... (More)
The thesis reviews research about assimilation and education of Turkish immigrants in Germany. The thesis describes Human Capital theory, multiculture and cultural hegemony and segmented assimilation model. By using descriptive quantitative methods, it shows that Turkish-German community tends to be isolated and exclusive mainly due to their family and father centered social structure which was brought by historical reason, and they also suffer from serious stereotype and institutional discrimination in German education system which is one the reasons why Turkish-German are more low-educated than natives. Education is not playing an important role in Turkish community as much as natives by itself but language proficiency, which is usually positively correlated with education, is more important for second generation in occupational advancement. Also, there is no clear evidence show that Islam belief really brings negative impact towards assimilation. Compared with unilateral unwilling to integrate and religion, the unsuccessful assimilation of Turkish-German is more likely to be a result of mutual choice. (Less)
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Liu, Tianqi LU
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EKHS12 20231
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H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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language
English
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9136689
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2023-09-21 10:39:11
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  abstract     = {{The thesis reviews research about assimilation and education of Turkish immigrants in Germany. The thesis describes Human Capital theory, multiculture and cultural hegemony and segmented assimilation model. By using descriptive quantitative methods, it shows that Turkish-German community tends to be isolated and exclusive mainly due to their family and father centered social structure which was brought by historical reason, and they also suffer from serious stereotype and institutional discrimination in German education system which is one the reasons why Turkish-German are more low-educated than natives. Education is not playing an important role in Turkish community as much as natives by itself but language proficiency, which is usually positively correlated with education, is more important for second generation in occupational advancement. Also, there is no clear evidence show that Islam belief really brings negative impact towards assimilation. Compared with unilateral unwilling to integrate and religion, the unsuccessful assimilation of Turkish-German is more likely to be a result of mutual choice.}},
  author       = {{Liu, Tianqi}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Education and Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}