%0 Journal Article
%T The Link Between the Transnational Behaviour and Integration of the Second Generation in European and American Cities
%A Tineke Fokkema
%A Laurence Lessard-Phillips
%A James D. Bachmeier
%A Susan K. Brown
%J Nordic Journal of Migration Research
%@ 1799-649X
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.2478/v10202-011-0033-x
%X This article investigates the transnational behaviour of the children of immigrants - the second generation - in 11 European and two U.S. cities. We find evidence that transnational practices such as visits to the home country, remittances and use of ethnic media persist only among a minority of the second generation. At a personal level, these second-generation transmigrants are less socio-culturally integrated but more economically integrated in the host country. They also tend to live in those cities and countries with policies that are more assimilationist or exclusionary than multicultural.
%K Immigrant integration
%K second generation
%K transnationalism
%K comparative immigration contexts
%K multiculturalism
%U http://versita.metapress.com/content/n0413u7283583227/?p=a4c7b78a926e4f58958830e723837bcf&pi=2