Socio-Cultural Integration of First Generation Immigrants in Greece

Konstantinos Terzakis and Irene Daskalopoulou
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Konstantinos Terzakis: University of the Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece.

Migration Letters, 2021, vol. 18, issue 6, 649-658

Abstract: We analyze the socio-cultural integration (SCI) of first generation immigrants as the outcome of economic integration and regularization. We focus on Greece for which similar evidence do not exist and report SCI levels and the factors that are conducive to them. We construct a simple socio-cultural integration index and analyze its variation against pre and post migration factors, using a sample of 200 first generation immigrants in Greece. Robust empirical estimation techniques are applied. Results reveal interesting findings with regard to immigrants’ types of adaptation to the host community. On a zero to ten scale, average SCI levels are estimated at 5.7 (± 2.5) which is high in absolute terms but low in terms of the degree (type) of integration. After controlling for the socio-demographic profile of the respondents, naturalization and their time living in Greece, we find that education and employment status are the most important determinants of socio-cultural integration.

Keywords: Cultural participation; immigrants; integration; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.33182/ml.v18i6.948

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