TIES RTN Early Stage Researchers research projects lines

During the three year duration of the TIES RTN, 12 Early Stage Researchers (PhD students) wil carry out their own research project. Their general research lines are described below. INED : Discrimination, with a special focus on relations with public institutions (public services, police, justice, schools, social housing). The quantitative analysis of the TIES data base will focus on issues related with the experience of racial and gender discrimination for Turk second generations and their consequences in the process of identity building. A comparison of two or three countries that are to be defined will be carried out. IMES : Education, the issue of educational tracks of second generation Turks in a comparative perspective, i.e. with regard to the different school systems. Combiniation of quantitative and qualitative analysis, i.e. taking the TIES survey data as a departure point for analysis to be complemented and deepened through qualitative research in a particular field. NIDI : Demographic transitions in the life course, with a focus on partner choice and marriage and the way these are influenced by / interact with for instance, parental family’s background, timing and type of educational and work careers, or identity issues, attitudes on gender roles, etc. Quantitative analysis of the TIES data base, comparing two or three countries, among which preferably the Netherlands. EIF : Intergenerational social mobility in a transnational perspective. Quantitative analyses of the TIES data are to be carried out in a comparative way, taking into account migration and citizenship regimes as well as educational systems of the countries chosen for comparison. ISPO : Ethnic resources, ethnic identity and inter group relations, as they relate to the school careers and varying attainment levels of the second generation. The thematic focus of the project is on the role of ethnicity as a resource and/or a hindrance for the structural integration of the second generation. The main data source will be the cross-national TIES surveys and the comparative focus will be on second-generation Turks across national and local contexts. A comparison of Belgium with other countries in the TIES survey will be carried out in order to contextualise different ways in which ethnic resources are mobilised and rewarded and different constructions of ethnicity, identity and otherness. IMIS : An evaluation into the role played by religion in individual perceptions of identity amongst the second generation of Turkish immigrants. A comparison between two or three countries (one of which is Germany) will be carried out.   IEM : Education and transition to the labour market., with a special focus on intergenerational mobility of the second generation and on the factors which help or hinder their way through the educational system and their access to the labour market, including the influence of family and ethnic social capital. The project is to be carried out in a crosscultural perspective comparing the second generation of moroccan origin in Spain with that of two other countries with different school systems and migration history. CEIFO : Promoting and restricting conditions for ethnic and cultural identity construction among ‘second generation immigrants’ in different multicultural contexts. The project will include both quantitative and qualitative methods, investigating processes related to integration in contemporary globalised pluralistic societies, for example studying the inclusion and exclusion of members of society along concepts like citizenship, gender and religion, and exploring more recent concepts like transnational and diasporic identities. The project will be based on TIES survey and on qualitative interviews. Special focus will be placed on the interplay between integration (subjective as well as objective) and the migration history of the immigration countries as well as of the studied groups. The study will include descendants of Turkish immigrants living in Sweden, of Moroccan immigrants living in Spain, and descendants of a third group living in one of the other TIES’s countries with a contrasting migration history compared to Sweden, for example a colonial history as well as a long history of immigration. FSM : Structural integration of second generation youth. The quantitative analysis of the TIES data base will focus either on: a) Transition from school to work: school trajectories in connection with evolution of the labour market and notably segmentation, ethnic stratification and discrimination, or on b) Intergenerational mobility of second generation with emphasis on differential paths for men and women. A comparison of youth of Turkish and/or former-Yugoslavian origin living in Switzerland and in some other countries of the TIES project will take place required. SCMR : The new Albanian second generation in Europe. Albanian-origin children are now passing through the school systems of Greece and Italy in increasingly large numbers; a timely opportunity exists to study their educational, socio-cultural and identity profiles. IISS : Relationships between socio-cultural and structural integration processes, i.e. how different social and cultural identities are related to the social mobility patterns of second generations migrants. Analysis will be based on the TIES dataset and on the dataset on Russians based on TIES methodology. The research plan will include comparison of Russians to other immigrant groups in two or three different countries. KHU : The participation of second-generation immigrants in the production of mediascapes and art-worlds, as well as their participation in culture/creative industries. Comparative and qualitative approaches will be carried out.