Young immigrants' host country identification and their friendships with natives: Does relative group size matter? |
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| Institution: | 1. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Social Policy Research Unit, PO BOX 30, FI-00271, Helsinki, Finland;2. University of Turku, Department of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, 20014, Finland;1. Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark;2. Institute for Health Care & Public Management, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 48, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany;3. Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine & Human and Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;4. Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Public Health Epidemiology Unit, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;5. Research and Education Institute of Child Health, Strovolos, Cyprus;6. Department of Paediatrics, Medical, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary;7. Institute of Food Science & Technology, National Research Council, Italy;8. Institute of Psychology, Social Sciences and Education, University of Tartu, Estonia;9. Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development Research Group, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain;10. Department of Public Health, Medicine and Health Sciences, University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;11. Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, Bremen, Germany;12. Institute of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;1. Laboratoire CERPP-OCTOGONE, UFR de psychologie, université de Toulouse, 5, allées Antonio-Machado, 31058 Toulouse cedex 9, France;2. UER développement de l’enfant à l’adulte, HEP Lausanne, avenue de Cour 33, 1007 Lausanne, Suisse;1. Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA;2. Survey Methodology Program/Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA;1. Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, 89George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA;2. School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA |
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| Abstract: | Recent network research indicates that native youth prefer to befriend immigrants with stronger rather than weaker host country identification. Surprisingly, however, no respective preference of high-identifying immigrants for native friends has been found, and there is little evidence that friends influence immigrants' identification. Seeking to make sense of these unexpected findings, my aims are twofold: First, I reproduce an earlier study using three waves of newly collected network panel data. Second, going beyond a robustness test with better data, I suggest that relative group size within school accounts for earlier findings. I hypothesize that immigrants' host country identification only affects their own friendship choices in schools with high shares of immigrants, because only in those schools they can be picky about befriending natives. Stochastic actor-oriented models support this notion, pointing to an interplay of preferences and opportunities in shaping the relation between host country identification and interethnic friendships. |
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