Is There a Rural Penalty in Language Acquisition? Evidence From Germany's Refugee Allocation Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13076337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samir Khalil (0000-0002-1378-7215, University of Potsdam), Ulrich Köhler (0000-0002-5614-6063, University of Potsdam), Jasper Tjaden (0000-0002-5054-3535, University of Potsdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pages | 841775-841775 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2297-7775 • E-ISSN: 2297-7775 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fsoc.2022.841775 |
| PMID | 35721819 |
| OpenAlex | W4281714170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 43 |
Emerging evidence has highlighted the important role of local contexts for integration trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees. Germany's policy of randomly allocating asylum seekers across Germany may advantage some and disadvantage others in terms of opportunities for equal participation in society. This study explores the question whether asylum seekers that have been allocated to rural areas experience disadvantages in terms of language acquisition compared to those allocated to urban areas. We derive testable assumptions using a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) which are then tested using large-N survey data (IAB-BAMF-SOEP refugee survey). We find that living in a rural area has no negative total effect on language skills. Further the findings suggest that the "null effect" is the result of two processes which offset each other: while asylum seekers in rural areas have slightly lower access for formal, federally organized language courses, they have more regular exposure to German speakers
Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Economics · Geography · German · Offset (computer science · Political science · Refugee · Rural area · Sociology · Statistics · Survey data collection · Computer Science · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Law · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Institutional conditions and acquisition of language skills among young refugees
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |