Career strategies and status passages of young adults with a migration background in a Franco-German comparison

The aim of the research project is to investigate the professional and social action strategies of young adults with a migration background in a Franco-German comparison.

In addition to the causes that lead to problematic life courses and unsuccessful labor market integration, the conditions for successful coping will also be specifically identified. To this end, qualitative field research will be conducted in two disadvantaged neighborhoods in Paris and two in Berlin, and quantitative comparative analyses based on representative microdata will be carried out. The analyses trace the influence of migration history, family of origin and social milieu on the action strategies with which young adults attempt to cope with the professional and familial status passages.

The focus is on the extent to which young migrants, under the conditions and experiences of blocked opportunities, increasingly develop informal strategies that are no longer oriented towards social advancement through educational attainment, but rather towards making their way through the flexible perception of opportunity structures and the mobilization of social networks. In both countries, young adults from a younger and an older immigrant group are considered. In a country comparison, the effects of different institutional framework conditions on the problems of status passages and the possibilities of reacting to them will be analyzed.

Details

Cooperation of Carsten Keller and Ariane Jossin (Centre Marc Bloch) with Olaf Groh-Samberg and Ingrid Tucci (DIW), funded from 2008 to 2011 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)

Selected publications on the project

Keller, C. und I. Tucci 2014: Konstruktion und Relevanz von Ethnizität im deutsch-französischen Vergleich: Professionelle und lebensweltliche Diskurse bei Migrantennachkommen. In: Löw, Martina (Hg.): Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Verhandlungen des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum und Dortmund. 213–228

Tucci, I., A. Jossin, C. Keller und O. Groh-Samberg 2013: Labor market entry of children of immigrants in France and Germany: a comparative analysis. Online-Artikel der Revue Française de Sociologie 54(3). www.cairn-int.info/article-E_RFS_543_0567--labor-market-entry-of-descendants-of.htm

Groh-Samberg, O., A. Jossin, C. Keller und I. Tucci 2012: Biografische Drift und zweite Chance. Bildungs- und Berufsverläufe von Migrantennachkommen in Deutschland und Frankreich. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Sonderheft „Soziologische Bildungsforschung“, hrsg. von H. Solga und R. Becker. 186–210

Keller, C., I. Tucci, A. Jossin und O. Groh-Samberg 2012: Prekäre Verläufe von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland und Frankreich. In: Mansel, Jürgen/ Karsten Speck (Hg.): Jugend und Arbeit. Empirische Bestandsaufnahme und Analysen. Weinheim: Juventa. 135–156

Tucci, I., A. Jossin, C. Keller und O. Groh-Samberg 2011: Success Despite Starting Out at a Disadvantage: What Helps Second-Generation Migrants in France and Germany? In: DIW Economic Bulletin (5). 3–11

Keller, C. 2009: Strategien und Faktoren der Partizipation von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund im Blickfeld von SozialexpertInnen. In: Revue d’Allemagne (3). 409–431