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Exclusionary Contexts Frustrate Cultural Integration: Migrant Acculturation Into Support for Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Western Europe
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Abstract Countering linear acculturation theories, the adoption of Western European gender customs over time differs across migrant groups. This diversity implies that acculturation into support for gender equality is context dependent. However, little quantitative scholarship has identified what sort of con... view more
Countering linear acculturation theories, the adoption of Western European gender customs over time differs across migrant groups. This diversity implies that acculturation into support for gender equality is context dependent. However, little quantitative scholarship has identified what sort of contexts strengthen or impede acculturation. This article investigates one source of context-dependent acculturation: exclusionary contexts. I build and test a context-dependent exclusions framework that proposes that contexts that exclude non-Western migrants hamper their acculturation into support for gender equality in the labor market in Western Europe. Empirically, I synchronize European Social Survey, European Values Study, and Eurislam data on over 11,000 non-Western migrants in Western Europe. Cross-classified models show that non-Western migrants' support for labor-market gender equality is, indeed, lower in exclusionary contexts, for instance, in destinations with stronger anti-migrant sentiments. Pivotally, the impact of destinations' gender customs on migrants' gender values differs across destination, origin, and community contexts. For instance, in destinations with stronger populist right-wing parties, migrants internalize destinations' gender equality less. Altogether, non-Western migrants' acculturation into support for labor-market gender equality is highly dependent on contextual exclusions, which means that populist claims about non-Western migrants' universal lack of acculturation into support for gender equality should be viewed cautiously.... view less
Keywords
EVS; Western Europe; migrant; acculturation; integration; affirmative action; labor market; gender-specific factors
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
EVS 2008
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 941-975
Journal
International Migration Review, 56 (2022) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183211059171
ISSN
1747-7379
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed