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  • "The Council of Europe (2003: 7) has delineated eight key dimensions of life as important to immigrant integration, and the European Parliament (2007: 139) 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 self-organization). 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." (xsd:string)
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  • Immigrant Integration and Trust in Public Institutions: Lessons from GSOEP and ALLBUS (xsd:string)
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