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has followed up with an effort to benchmark immigrant integration in these areas:
employment, housing, health care, nutrition, education, information, culture, and
basic public functions (including equality, anti-discrimination, and selforganization).
Civic integration contracts have been developed in western European
states ostensibly to focus state efforts supporting immigrant advancement toward
economic, social and political integration with the host society. While some have
criticized these contracts as tools of 'migration control' (cf. Joppke, 2007: 4), there
has been very little empirical examination of the assumptions underpinning the contracts.
Recent research (cf. Doerschler & Jackson, 2010) using the German Socio-
Economic Panel Data (GSOEP) suggests that while immigrants' knowledge of the
host nation's language has a limited positive impact on some aspects of their economic
success, it does not improve immigrants' experience with discrimination, or
their concern for anti-foreigner hostility. In the current paper, we follow up on our
initial effort, this time examining the relationship between the indicators of immigrant
integration that are currently the focus of the EU-wide benchmarking effort and
the degree of trust expressed by immigrants in specific institutions of the German
state. Trust has long been viewed as a critical component of democratic legitimacy
between citizens and government (cf. Putnam 1993). Without a certain degree of
trust in government, citizens may question the value of democracy and eventually
support non-democratic alternatives. Using data from the 2008 German General Survey
(ALLBUS), we detail differences between Germans and non-Germans in their
trust of eleven public institutions and programs in Germany (health care, Constitutional
Court, Parliament, local government, justice, public television and print media,
higher education, federal government, police, political parties) as well as two institutions
of the EU (Commission & Parliament). Beyond describing these core attitudinal
differences between German citizens and non-citizens, we also compare differences
between select ethnic (Turks and Germans) and religious groups (Muslims, Protestants,
Catholics and respondents without a religious identity). The nationality and
religious comparisons allow us to assess the extent to which the integration process is
generalizable across immigrant groups. Our study provides a foundation for effective
policymaking fostering immigrant integration.".
Aufgenommen: 25. Fassung, März 2011
Doerschler, Peter und Jackson, Pamela Irving, (2010). Muslim Integration in Germany:
Benchmarking with ALLBUS. Annual Convention of The International Studies
Association: The Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners: New
Orleans.
Abstract: "The recent EU 'Community statistics' initiative aims to track and improve
the integration of immigrants in European societies. The European Parliament's
(2007: 1) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs recently established
a benchmarking definition of integration with eight dimensions: employment,
housing, health care, nutrition, education, information, culture, and equality. Official
data gathered in Germany and some western European societies do not permit ben-