Céline Teney
Biographic Data
| ID | 226279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Céline Teney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Céline |
| FAMILY NAME | Teney |
| SIGNATURE | TENEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6359-5361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 379 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Applying Classical Migration Theories to Forced Displacement: The Case of Displaced Ukrainians in Berlin, Warsaw, and Budapest
This study examines the decision to flee and the destination preferences of displaced Ukrainians who sought refuge in Berlin, Warsaw, and Budapest following the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion. Drawing on 255 semi-structured interviews and employing an abductive analytical approach, the analysis integrates insights from neoclassical economics of migration, the new economics of migration, and network theory. The findings highlight the importance …
Educational Strategies of Displaced Ukrainians in Berlin and Warsaw: The Role of Transnational Opportunity Structure
This paper investigates the educational strategies of displaced Ukrainian parents regarding their school‐age children who fled to Poland and Germany after the 2022 full‐scale Russian invasion. The study is based on an abductive analysis of a unique longitudinal qualitative panel data set of 82 semi‐structured interviews with displaced Ukrainians with school‐age children in Berlin and Warsaw in summer 2022, as well as 60 and 44 follow‐up interview…
Opinion polarization of immigration and EU attitudes between social classes – the limiting role of working class dissensus
This study examines polarization in political opinions toward immigration and the European Union between occupational classes, i.e. structural polarization.We maintain that two conditions must hold to indicate structural opinion polarization: high between-class divergence and high within-class consensus.Our main contribution is to study these two conditions systematically for a wide variety of immigration and EU-related topics.Using data from fou…
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Mechanisms of the Effect of Individual Education on Pro‐European Dispositions
A burgeoning empirical literature on attitudes towards Europe shows that highly educated individuals are more likely to hold pro‐European dispositions than non‐highly educated individuals. The literature provides structural and cultural accounts for this relationship. The structural account highlights that formal education contributes to earning higher incomes and attaining an upper‐class occupation, which are conducive to pro‐European dispositio…
The Gendered Effect of Parenthood on Voting Behaviour in the 2021 German Federal Election
The effect of parenthood on voting behaviour has so far been largely neglected in electoral research or is assumed to have a negligible effect. However, the 2021 German federal election campaign faced the politicisation of two main family- and children-related issues (i.e. the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change). Based on a comparison of data in the 2017 and 2021 German Longitudinal Election Study, we investigate the gendered effect of parentho…
Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment
Affirmative action policies (AAP) polarise the public debate in Western democracies as they involve favouring one candidate at the cost of others because of their group membership. Against this backdrop, we ran a factorial survey experiment in Denmark, France and Germany on the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring women and immigrants with equal qualifications in the recruitment process for a management position (N = 4264; YouGov o…
Subjective financial insecurity and support for European unification
The utilitarian approach to pro-EU attitudes – noting that citizens establish their preferences based on their perceived self-interest – remains the dominant one in the social science literature on these attitudes. Yet previous work following this approach has overlooked the role of subjective financial insecurity. Based on prospect theory and marginal utility theory, we argue that individuals who feel financially insecure determine their prefere…
Titelseiten
A New Social Conflict on Globalisation-Related Issues in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective
We draw on cleavage theory to assess the emergence of a social conflict concerning globalisation-related issues among the German population between 1989 and 2019. We argue that issue salience and opinion polarisation are key conditions for a successful and sustainable political mobilisation of citizens and thus for the emergence of a social conflict. In line with globalisation cleavage theory, we hypothesised that issue salience as well as overal…
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups
Despite the divisive character of Affirmative Action Policies (AAP)s, we still know very little about why some people oppose, while others support such regulations. We provide new evidence from a survey experiment in Germany, where we asked respondents to what extent they would support the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring – if equally qualified – members of an underrepresented group in the recruitment process for a management p…
Integrationists, Critical Europeanists and Pessimist Europeanists: EU attitudes among students in a German university
We investigate attitudes toward the EU of a sample of students enrolled in a German university by using a mixed-methods data design. We conducted an online survey among students at the University of Göttingen (N=730) and asked them closed questions on the EU enlargement, the allocation of authority at the EU level, the way democracy works at the EU level, and an open question on their wish for the future of the EU. We then ran a latent class anal…
A network analysis of intra-EU migration flows: How regulatory policies, economic inequalities and the network-topology shape the intra-EU migration space
Using a network approach, we investigate the determinants of intra-EU migration flows between all 28 EU member states in the years 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2013. Our descriptive analysis of the networks of intra-EU migration flows shows that the EU migration space is dominated by two core destination countries (Germany and United Kingdom). The results of our cross-sectional exponential random graph models (ERGM) reveal that the status of Germany and …
Understanding high-skilled intra-European migration patterns: The case of European physicians in Germany
This paper investigates migration patterns of European physicians in Germany as an example of high-skilled intra-EU migration. We define migration patterns as the migrants’ original migration decisions and the intended length of stay in their destination country. Our analysis is based on an original mixed-method study that consists of a survey (N = 1,225) and 22 semi-structured follow-up interviews with physicians from throughout the EU. Based on…
Equality prescribed? Contextual determinants of citizens’ support for gender boardroom quotas across Europe
We provide the first cross-national comparative study of citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in the economy using the example of gender quotas for company boards. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on the contextual level and analyse how factors related to political institutions and actors, and economic and social structure shape citizens’ support and the gap in support between men and women. We apply multilevel regression an…
Immigration of highly skilled European professionals to Germany: Intra-EU brain gain or brain circulation
This contribution aims to highlight the relevance of the concept of brain gain for intra-EU migration. For this purpose, I contrast brain gain and brain circulation as the two poles of a scale, aiming to explain disparities in the migration strategies of highly skilled intra-EU migrants that are related to their countries of origin. I apply this conceptualisation in the analysis of an original representative survey of non-German EU physicians wor…
Who supports gender quotas for company leadership? An empirical analysis of determinants of support and rejection among German citizens
After a long and controversial debate, a statutory gender boardroom quota was introduced in Germany in 2016. We examine the determinants of support for this quota among citizens aiming to identify the social groups that approve the most and those that resent the most the quota law. The approaches of self-interest, political orientation, and exposure are used to understand variation in support from a theoretical perspective. Based on data from the…
Transnational Social Practices: A Quantitative Perspective
Transnational social practices (TSP) can be defined as sustained linkages and ongoing exchanges between individuals across national borders. Over the last decades, TSP have not only become more common, but they have also developed into an increasingly salient subject of quantitative sociological research. After highlighting seminal foundational research, we introduce a set of salient topics in this emerging strand of research, including the socia…
Access to general social protection for immigrants in advanced democracies
Immigration has become a central socio-political issue in most advanced democracies. While research mainly focuses on immigrant-specific policies in the area of immigration, integration and citizenship, we still know very little about the incorporation of immigrants into mainstream social policies. By analysing cross-national differences in the inclusion of immigrants into general social protection across 27 rich democracies on the basis of compa…
Students with an immigrant background in Brussels and their first vote: An analysis of voting intentions for the 2007 federal elections
In recent years, Belgians with an immigrant background have become an important electoral force in Belgian cities and in particular in the Brussels-Capital Region. Literature on the choice of parties and the voting characteristics of Belgians with an immigrant background is, however, lacking. In this article, we shall present the first analysis of the electoral characteristics of young students with an immigrant background in the Brussels-Capital…
Les rhétoriciens bruxellois issus de l’immigration et leur premier vote: Une analyse des intentions de vote aux élections fédérales de 2007
Au cours des dernières années, les Belges issus de l’immigration sont devenus une force électorale non négligeable dans les villes belges et particulièrement dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. La littérature sur les choix de partis et les caractéristiques de vote des Belges issus de l’immigration reste cependant lacunaire. Dans cet article, nous présentons la première analyse des caractéristiques électorales des jeunes rhétoriciens issus de l’…
De eerste stem van allochtone jongeren in Brussel: Een analyse van de kiesintenties bij de federale verkiezingen van 2007
Sinds enkele jaren zijn de allochtone Belgen een niet te verwaarlozen kiezersgroep geworden in de Belgische steden en al helemaal in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. Wetenschappelijke literatuur over de partijkeuze en het stemgedrag van die categorie Belgen blijft evenwel schaars. In dit artikel presenteren we een eerste analyse van het stemgedrag van allochtone leerlingen uit het laatste jaar middelbaar onderwijs in het Brussels Hoofdstedelij…
Feeling European: An Exploration of Ethnic Disparities Among Immigrants
Over the last 20 years, European identity has become a key topic widely investigated in social sciences. However, most research has only focused on EU nationals and EU immigrants, neglecting the fact that a substantial segment of citizens in Europe are non-EU immigrants. This article explores the differences between and within EU and non-EU immigrant groups in terms of European identity and potential factors behind these differences. Based on the…
Does the EU Economic Crisis Undermine Subjective Europeanization? Assessing the Dynamics of Citizens' EU Framing between 2004 and 2013
This study examines the effects of the recent economic crisis, the resulting European Union (EU) financial stability program, and the politicization of the EU on four dimensions of EU framing among Europeans. Based on a detailed set of items on EU meanings from pooled Eurobarometer data from 2004 to 2013, I investigate the evolution of cosmopolitan, utilitarian, libertarian, and communitarian EU framing across EU countries during the economic cri…
Income Advantages of Poorly Qualified Immigrant Minorities: Why School Dropouts of Turkish Origin Earn More in Germany
We investigate an often overlooked implication of the signalling model of statistical discrimination: if immigrant minorities’ educational qualifications carry less signalling power, poorly qualified minority members should experience positive statistical discrimination. We argue that the lower signalling power stems from disadvantages associated with insufficient language skills and lack of supportive parental resources, which prevent minority s…
Winners and losers of globalization in Europe: Attitudes and Ideologies
Globalization pressures result in a new ideological conflict among Europeans. We use detailed items from the Eurobarometer survey on issues of immigration and European integration that measure the ideological perspective underpinning positions toward the EU. This provides a fine-grained analysis of the ideologies underlying the poles of the new globalization-centered conflict line, which we define as cosmopolitan and communitarian. Our results sh…
Ethnic voting in Brussels: Voting patterns among ethnic minorities in Brussels (Belgium) during the 2006 local elections
Educational aspirations among ethnic minority youth in Brussels: Does the perception of ethnic discrimination in the labour market matter? A mixed-method approach
Ethnic disparities in educational aspirations and choices are important to comprehend ethnic education inequality. Based on a mixed-method approach (3121 questionnaires and 40 interviews of pupils), this article investigates ethnic differences among nine ethnic minority groups of pupils in Brussels with regard to their educational aspirations. The multivariate analysis of the questionnaires shows that pupils from only four out of the nine ethnic …
Access to general social protection for immigrants in advanced democracies
Immigration has become a central socio-political issue in most advanced democracies. While research mainly focuses on immigrant-specific policies in the area of immigration, integration and citizenship, we still know very little about the incorporation of immigrants into mainstream social policies. By analysing cross-national differences in the inclusion of immigrants into general social protection across 27 rich democracies on the basis of compa…
Space Matters. The Group Threat Hypothesis Revisited with Geographically Weighted Regression. The Case of the NPD 2009 Electoral Success
A geographically weighted regression approach is used to assess the association of the electoral success of the NPD, an extreme right-wing political party, during the 2009 German federal election with levels of and changes in immigrant and unemployment rates. The results do not support the group threat hypothesis: the immigrant rate remains non-significant in large areas of West Germany while it shows a negative and significant relationship with …
Understanding high-skilled intra-European migration patterns: The case of European physicians in Germany
This paper investigates migration patterns of European physicians in Germany as an example of high-skilled intra-EU migration. We define migration patterns as the migrants’ original migration decisions and the intended length of stay in their destination country. Our analysis is based on an original mixed-method study that consists of a survey (N = 1,225) and 22 semi-structured follow-up interviews with physicians from throughout the EU. Based on…
The cosmopolitan elite in Germany: Transnationalism and Postmaterialism
In this article, we investigate cosmopolitan attitudes among the people often considered the most cosmopolitan - the elite. Studying the typical class of frequent travellers provides a particularly good opportunity to study the relationship between transnational activities and cosmopolitanism. We also comprehensively investigate the link between postmaterialist values and cosmopolitan attitudes. We test our arguments using an original dataset tha…
Attitudes Towards Intergroup Dating Among Brussels Adolescents: The interaction of gender and ethnicity and its determinants
Attitudes towards intergroup dating and their determinants are important to comprehend group boundaries of multicultural societies. Our contribution investigates gender and ethnic differences in intergroup dating approval among 18 year olds from 11 ethnic groups in Belgium. We observe ethnic differences in the level of approval of intergroup dating. However, these ethnic disparities are largely explained by the degree of sexual liberalization, pa…
How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens
Based on a unique survey among members of top level elites in eleven fields of activity in Germany, we investigate (1) elite-mass opinion incongruence and (2) the polarization of elites’ positions on four contested denationalization issues. Our results show that the elite-mass attitudinal gap is significant for items directly tapping support for the further opening up of national borders, even when controlling for education, age, gender, place of…
A network analysis of intra-EU migration flows: How regulatory policies, economic inequalities and the network-topology shape the intra-EU migration space
Using a network approach, we investigate the determinants of intra-EU migration flows between all 28 EU member states in the years 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2013. Our descriptive analysis of the networks of intra-EU migration flows shows that the EU migration space is dominated by two core destination countries (Germany and United Kingdom). The results of our cross-sectional exponential random graph models (ERGM) reveal that the status of Germany and …
Equality prescribed? Contextual determinants of citizens’ support for gender boardroom quotas across Europe
We provide the first cross-national comparative study of citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in the economy using the example of gender quotas for company boards. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on the contextual level and analyse how factors related to political institutions and actors, and economic and social structure shape citizens’ support and the gap in support between men and women. We apply multilevel regression an…
High political participation, high social capital? A relational analysis of youth social capital and political participation
Attitudes Toward Homosexuals Among Youth in Multiethnic Brussels
This study examined attitudes toward lesbians and gay men (referred to in the literature as sexual prejudice ) in a sample of pupils from 70 secondary schools in Brussels. We used items measuring traditional and modern sexual prejudice and support for gay civil rights. We performed a multilevel linear multivariate response analysis to assess both the impact of individual characteristics and school influence on pupils’ attitudes. Controlling for s…
Income Advantages of Poorly Qualified Immigrant Minorities: Why School Dropouts of Turkish Origin Earn More in Germany
We investigate an often overlooked implication of the signalling model of statistical discrimination: if immigrant minorities’ educational qualifications carry less signalling power, poorly qualified minority members should experience positive statistical discrimination. We argue that the lower signalling power stems from disadvantages associated with insufficient language skills and lack of supportive parental resources, which prevent minority s…
Les comportements électoraux des minorités ethniques à Bruxelles
Ces dernières années, les minorités ethniques d'origine immigrée sont devenues un groupe électoral non négligeable dans les villes belges. Cet article présente la première analyse des comportements électoraux des minorités ethniques en Belgique, en utilisant des données à la sortie des bureaux de vote lors des élections locales de trois communes de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Nous cherchons à savoir si les électeurs immigrés d'origine non eu…
Opinion polarization of immigration and EU attitudes between social classes – the limiting role of working class dissensus
This study examines polarization in political opinions toward immigration and the European Union between occupational classes, i.e. structural polarization.We maintain that two conditions must hold to indicate structural opinion polarization: high between-class divergence and high within-class consensus.Our main contribution is to study these two conditions systematically for a wide variety of immigration and EU-related topics.Using data from fou…
Mechanisms of the Effect of Individual Education on Pro‐European Dispositions
A burgeoning empirical literature on attitudes towards Europe shows that highly educated individuals are more likely to hold pro‐European dispositions than non‐highly educated individuals. The literature provides structural and cultural accounts for this relationship. The structural account highlights that formal education contributes to earning higher incomes and attaining an upper‐class occupation, which are conducive to pro‐European dispositio…
A New Social Conflict on Globalisation-Related Issues in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective
We draw on cleavage theory to assess the emergence of a social conflict concerning globalisation-related issues among the German population between 1989 and 2019. We argue that issue salience and opinion polarisation are key conditions for a successful and sustainable political mobilisation of citizens and thus for the emergence of a social conflict. In line with globalisation cleavage theory, we hypothesised that issue salience as well as overal…
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups
Despite the divisive character of Affirmative Action Policies (AAP)s, we still know very little about why some people oppose, while others support such regulations. We provide new evidence from a survey experiment in Germany, where we asked respondents to what extent they would support the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring – if equally qualified – members of an underrepresented group in the recruitment process for a management p…
Endorsement of Assimilationism among Ethnic Minority and Majority Youth in a Multination-Multiethnic Context: The Case of Brussels
This study examined attitudes towards weak and strong assimilation in a sample of 3,121 pupils from 70 secondary schools in Brussels with a multilevel linear analysis. Controlling for socio-demographic variables, members of some ethnic minority groups endorsed weak assimilation to a greater extent than the majority. Within members of the majority, the French-speaking Belgians held similar attitudes towards assimilation to the Dutch-speaking Belgi…
Who supports gender quotas for company leadership? An empirical analysis of determinants of support and rejection among German citizens
After a long and controversial debate, a statutory gender boardroom quota was introduced in Germany in 2016. We examine the determinants of support for this quota among citizens aiming to identify the social groups that approve the most and those that resent the most the quota law. The approaches of self-interest, political orientation, and exposure are used to understand variation in support from a theoretical perspective. Based on data from the…
Immigration of highly skilled European professionals to Germany: Intra-EU brain gain or brain circulation
This contribution aims to highlight the relevance of the concept of brain gain for intra-EU migration. For this purpose, I contrast brain gain and brain circulation as the two poles of a scale, aiming to explain disparities in the migration strategies of highly skilled intra-EU migrants that are related to their countries of origin. I apply this conceptualisation in the analysis of an original representative survey of non-German EU physicians wor…
Does the EU Economic Crisis Undermine Subjective Europeanization? Assessing the Dynamics of Citizens' EU Framing between 2004 and 2013
This study examines the effects of the recent economic crisis, the resulting European Union (EU) financial stability program, and the politicization of the EU on four dimensions of EU framing among Europeans. Based on a detailed set of items on EU meanings from pooled Eurobarometer data from 2004 to 2013, I investigate the evolution of cosmopolitan, utilitarian, libertarian, and communitarian EU framing across EU countries during the economic cri…
Educational Strategies of Displaced Ukrainians in Berlin and Warsaw: The Role of Transnational Opportunity Structure
This paper investigates the educational strategies of displaced Ukrainian parents regarding their school‐age children who fled to Poland and Germany after the 2022 full‐scale Russian invasion. The study is based on an abductive analysis of a unique longitudinal qualitative panel data set of 82 semi‐structured interviews with displaced Ukrainians with school‐age children in Berlin and Warsaw in summer 2022, as well as 60 and 44 follow‐up interview…
Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment
Affirmative action policies (AAP) polarise the public debate in Western democracies as they involve favouring one candidate at the cost of others because of their group membership. Against this backdrop, we ran a factorial survey experiment in Denmark, France and Germany on the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring women and immigrants with equal qualifications in the recruitment process for a management position (N = 4264; YouGov o…
Le droit de vote des étrangers en Belgique: Le cas de Bruxelles
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Ethnic voting in Brussels: Voting patterns among ethnic minorities in Brussels (Belgium) during the 2006 local elections
Attitudes Toward Homosexuals Among Youth in Multiethnic Brussels
This study examined attitudes toward lesbians and gay men (referred to in the literature as sexual prejudice ) in a sample of pupils from 70 secondary schools in Brussels. We used items measuring traditional and modern sexual prejudice and support for gay civil rights. We performed a multilevel linear multivariate response analysis to assess both the impact of individual characteristics and school influence on pupils’ attitudes. Controlling for s…
Les comportements électoraux des minorités ethniques à Bruxelles
Ces dernières années, les minorités ethniques d'origine immigrée sont devenues un groupe électoral non négligeable dans les villes belges. Cet article présente la première analyse des comportements électoraux des minorités ethniques en Belgique, en utilisant des données à la sortie des bureaux de vote lors des élections locales de trois communes de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Nous cherchons à savoir si les électeurs immigrés d'origine non eu…
Endorsement of Assimilationism among Ethnic Minority and Majority Youth in a Multination-Multiethnic Context: The Case of Brussels
This study examined attitudes towards weak and strong assimilation in a sample of 3,121 pupils from 70 secondary schools in Brussels with a multilevel linear analysis. Controlling for socio-demographic variables, members of some ethnic minority groups endorsed weak assimilation to a greater extent than the majority. Within members of the majority, the French-speaking Belgians held similar attitudes towards assimilation to the Dutch-speaking Belgi…
Space Matters. The Group Threat Hypothesis Revisited with Geographically Weighted Regression. The Case of the NPD 2009 Electoral Success
A geographically weighted regression approach is used to assess the association of the electoral success of the NPD, an extreme right-wing political party, during the 2009 German federal election with levels of and changes in immigrant and unemployment rates. The results do not support the group threat hypothesis: the immigrant rate remains non-significant in large areas of West Germany while it shows a negative and significant relationship with …
High political participation, high social capital? A relational analysis of youth social capital and political participation
Educational aspirations among ethnic minority youth in Brussels: Does the perception of ethnic discrimination in the labour market matter? A mixed-method approach
Ethnic disparities in educational aspirations and choices are important to comprehend ethnic education inequality. Based on a mixed-method approach (3121 questionnaires and 40 interviews of pupils), this article investigates ethnic differences among nine ethnic minority groups of pupils in Brussels with regard to their educational aspirations. The multivariate analysis of the questionnaires shows that pupils from only four out of the nine ethnic …
Attitudes Towards Intergroup Dating Among Brussels Adolescents: The interaction of gender and ethnicity and its determinants
Attitudes towards intergroup dating and their determinants are important to comprehend group boundaries of multicultural societies. Our contribution investigates gender and ethnic differences in intergroup dating approval among 18 year olds from 11 ethnic groups in Belgium. We observe ethnic differences in the level of approval of intergroup dating. However, these ethnic disparities are largely explained by the degree of sexual liberalization, pa…
How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens
Based on a unique survey among members of top level elites in eleven fields of activity in Germany, we investigate (1) elite-mass opinion incongruence and (2) the polarization of elites’ positions on four contested denationalization issues. Our results show that the elite-mass attitudinal gap is significant for items directly tapping support for the further opening up of national borders, even when controlling for education, age, gender, place of…
Winners and losers of globalization in Europe: Attitudes and Ideologies
Globalization pressures result in a new ideological conflict among Europeans. We use detailed items from the Eurobarometer survey on issues of immigration and European integration that measure the ideological perspective underpinning positions toward the EU. This provides a fine-grained analysis of the ideologies underlying the poles of the new globalization-centered conflict line, which we define as cosmopolitan and communitarian. Our results sh…
The cosmopolitan elite in Germany: Transnationalism and Postmaterialism
In this article, we investigate cosmopolitan attitudes among the people often considered the most cosmopolitan - the elite. Studying the typical class of frequent travellers provides a particularly good opportunity to study the relationship between transnational activities and cosmopolitanism. We also comprehensively investigate the link between postmaterialist values and cosmopolitan attitudes. We test our arguments using an original dataset tha…
Students with an immigrant background in Brussels and their first vote: An analysis of voting intentions for the 2007 federal elections
In recent years, Belgians with an immigrant background have become an important electoral force in Belgian cities and in particular in the Brussels-Capital Region. Literature on the choice of parties and the voting characteristics of Belgians with an immigrant background is, however, lacking. In this article, we shall present the first analysis of the electoral characteristics of young students with an immigrant background in the Brussels-Capital…
Les rhétoriciens bruxellois issus de l’immigration et leur premier vote: Une analyse des intentions de vote aux élections fédérales de 2007
Au cours des dernières années, les Belges issus de l’immigration sont devenus une force électorale non négligeable dans les villes belges et particulièrement dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. La littérature sur les choix de partis et les caractéristiques de vote des Belges issus de l’immigration reste cependant lacunaire. Dans cet article, nous présentons la première analyse des caractéristiques électorales des jeunes rhétoriciens issus de l’…
De eerste stem van allochtone jongeren in Brussel: Een analyse van de kiesintenties bij de federale verkiezingen van 2007
Sinds enkele jaren zijn de allochtone Belgen een niet te verwaarlozen kiezersgroep geworden in de Belgische steden en al helemaal in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. Wetenschappelijke literatuur over de partijkeuze en het stemgedrag van die categorie Belgen blijft evenwel schaars. In dit artikel presenteren we een eerste analyse van het stemgedrag van allochtone leerlingen uit het laatste jaar middelbaar onderwijs in het Brussels Hoofdstedelij…
Feeling European: An Exploration of Ethnic Disparities Among Immigrants
Over the last 20 years, European identity has become a key topic widely investigated in social sciences. However, most research has only focused on EU nationals and EU immigrants, neglecting the fact that a substantial segment of citizens in Europe are non-EU immigrants. This article explores the differences between and within EU and non-EU immigrant groups in terms of European identity and potential factors behind these differences. Based on the…
Does the EU Economic Crisis Undermine Subjective Europeanization? Assessing the Dynamics of Citizens' EU Framing between 2004 and 2013
This study examines the effects of the recent economic crisis, the resulting European Union (EU) financial stability program, and the politicization of the EU on four dimensions of EU framing among Europeans. Based on a detailed set of items on EU meanings from pooled Eurobarometer data from 2004 to 2013, I investigate the evolution of cosmopolitan, utilitarian, libertarian, and communitarian EU framing across EU countries during the economic cri…
Income Advantages of Poorly Qualified Immigrant Minorities: Why School Dropouts of Turkish Origin Earn More in Germany
We investigate an often overlooked implication of the signalling model of statistical discrimination: if immigrant minorities’ educational qualifications carry less signalling power, poorly qualified minority members should experience positive statistical discrimination. We argue that the lower signalling power stems from disadvantages associated with insufficient language skills and lack of supportive parental resources, which prevent minority s…
Transnational Social Practices: A Quantitative Perspective
Transnational social practices (TSP) can be defined as sustained linkages and ongoing exchanges between individuals across national borders. Over the last decades, TSP have not only become more common, but they have also developed into an increasingly salient subject of quantitative sociological research. After highlighting seminal foundational research, we introduce a set of salient topics in this emerging strand of research, including the socia…
Access to general social protection for immigrants in advanced democracies
Immigration has become a central socio-political issue in most advanced democracies. While research mainly focuses on immigrant-specific policies in the area of immigration, integration and citizenship, we still know very little about the incorporation of immigrants into mainstream social policies. By analysing cross-national differences in the inclusion of immigrants into general social protection across 27 rich democracies on the basis of compa…
Equality prescribed? Contextual determinants of citizens’ support for gender boardroom quotas across Europe
We provide the first cross-national comparative study of citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in the economy using the example of gender quotas for company boards. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on the contextual level and analyse how factors related to political institutions and actors, and economic and social structure shape citizens’ support and the gap in support between men and women. We apply multilevel regression an…
Immigration of highly skilled European professionals to Germany: Intra-EU brain gain or brain circulation
This contribution aims to highlight the relevance of the concept of brain gain for intra-EU migration. For this purpose, I contrast brain gain and brain circulation as the two poles of a scale, aiming to explain disparities in the migration strategies of highly skilled intra-EU migrants that are related to their countries of origin. I apply this conceptualisation in the analysis of an original representative survey of non-German EU physicians wor…
Who supports gender quotas for company leadership? An empirical analysis of determinants of support and rejection among German citizens
After a long and controversial debate, a statutory gender boardroom quota was introduced in Germany in 2016. We examine the determinants of support for this quota among citizens aiming to identify the social groups that approve the most and those that resent the most the quota law. The approaches of self-interest, political orientation, and exposure are used to understand variation in support from a theoretical perspective. Based on data from the…
Understanding high-skilled intra-European migration patterns: The case of European physicians in Germany
This paper investigates migration patterns of European physicians in Germany as an example of high-skilled intra-EU migration. We define migration patterns as the migrants’ original migration decisions and the intended length of stay in their destination country. Our analysis is based on an original mixed-method study that consists of a survey (N = 1,225) and 22 semi-structured follow-up interviews with physicians from throughout the EU. Based on…
A network analysis of intra-EU migration flows: How regulatory policies, economic inequalities and the network-topology shape the intra-EU migration space
Using a network approach, we investigate the determinants of intra-EU migration flows between all 28 EU member states in the years 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2013. Our descriptive analysis of the networks of intra-EU migration flows shows that the EU migration space is dominated by two core destination countries (Germany and United Kingdom). The results of our cross-sectional exponential random graph models (ERGM) reveal that the status of Germany and …
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