Pathways to Integration: The Second Generation in Education and Work in Norway
Project Aim
What pathways to integration characterise the transition from education to work among descendants of immigrants in Norway? Are they socially isolated and incorporated into marginalized sectors of the economy? Or are their achievements in education translated into relevant work and prominent positions in social life, contributing to a ‘remaking’ of mainstream society, in which ethnic background will play a less significant role in determining individual life chances in the future?
In this project, an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, economists and anthropologists will use both quantitative and qualitative data to explore the dynamics of generational change, focusing on the pathways to integration experienced by male and female descendants of immigrants in Norway.
Project Approach
The project has four closely related subprojects. First, we will investigate whether the immigrant parents’ success or failure in the Norwegian labour market affect the labour market integration of the second generation.
Second, we will study the extent to which descendants of immigrants’ efforts in the educational sector is transferred into relevant work, and how family obligations and transnational marriages affect employment patterns of second generation men and women.
Third, we will explore whether an elite of descendants of immigrants is in the making, by conducting comprehensive qualitative case studies among students in medicine, law and economics, as well as among lawyers, doctors and economists that have managed to gain positions in the labour market. Fourth, we will study descendants of immigrants enrolled in vocational education, following 1) those who invest in more education, 2) those who end up working in vocational professions, and 3) those who are tracked into less privileged positions or even into permanent positions outside the labour market. The project will provide new and highly policy-relevant knowledge about the processes of integration and ultimately on the long-term effects of migration on the Norwegian society.
The third subproject is part of an ongoing, comparative study of elite formation among descendants of immigrants in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and the US. This project,ELITES: Pathways to Success, is led by Professor Maurice Crul at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Professor Crul is also part of the Norwegian project’s international advisory board, along with Professor Richard Alba from the Graduate Centre at the City University of New York and Dr. Katharine Charsley from the University of Bristol.
In the media
Seminar: See the live stream from the seminar Pathways to Integration, held in english (livestream.com), November 15, 2018.
Participants
Publications
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2021). Strukturell rasisme i en strukturelt inkluderende velferdsstat?. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. 62, s 106- 115
- Ragni Hege Kitterød & Marjan Nadim (2020). Embracing gender equality: Gender-role attitudes among second-generation immigrants in Norway. Demographic Research. 42, s 411- 440
- Jørn Ljunggren & Julia Orupabo (2020). Moving beyond: narratives of higher educational aspirations among descendants of immigrants in vocational training. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 41, s 701- 716
- Sara Cools & Pål Schøne (2019). Overgang fra utdanning til arbeid blant høyt utdannede etterkommere av innvandrere. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. 60, s 140- 165
- Lincoln Quillian; Anthony Heath; Devah Pager; Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen; Fenella Fleischmann & Ole Hexel (2019). Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others? Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring. Sociological Science. 6, s 467- 496
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen & Marjan Nadim (2019). Ethnic niche formation at the top? Second-generation immigrants in Norwegian high-status occupations. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 42, s 177- 195
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen & Ragni Hege Kitterød (2019). Beskytter assimilering mot diskriminering? Opplevd diskriminering blant innvandrere og etterkommere av innvandrere i det norske arbeidslivet. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. 3, s 353- 371
- Marjan Nadim (2017). Familien som ressurs eller hinder? Etterkommerkvinners deltagelse i arbeid. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. 1, s 35- 52
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2017). Innvandringshistorie som faghistorie: Kontroverser i norsk migrasjonsforskning. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 34, s 130- 149
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2016). The making and unmaking of ethnic boundaries in the public sphere: The case of Norway. Ethnicities. 18, s 344- 362
- Aud Korbøl & Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2018). Den kritiske fase. Innvandring til Norge fra Pakistan 1970-1973. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215030210. 328 s.
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2019). Etterkommere av innvandrere i Norge: Mobilitet, assimilering, diskriminering.
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2021). Strukturell rasisme på norsk. Klassekampen.
- Julia Orupabo & Jørn Ljunggren (2020). Yrkesfag – en alternativ vei til integrering. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
- Lincoln Quillian & Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2019). Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others?. NCCR on the move - blog.
- Sara Cools & Pål Schøne (2019). Utdanningssted forklarer ulikhet på toppen av yrkeshierarkiet. Dagens næringsliv.
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2019). Utdanning og arbeid: Etterkommere av innvandrere dominerer både topp og bunn. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
- Ragni Hege Kitterød (2018). En symmetrisk familiemodell - en selvfølge blant unge etterkommere?.
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2018). Innvandringsforskningen som ble lagt bort. Morgenbladet.
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2017). Innvandringshistorie som faghistorie: Kontroverser i norsk migrasjonsforskning.
- Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen (2017). Et innvandringsparadoks?. Morgenbladet.
