The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, P.O. Box 16164, 2500 BD The Hague, Netherlands; Utrecht University/ICS, P.O. Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands.
Soc Sci Res. 2012 May;41(3):555-69. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.01.002. Epub 2012 Jan 26.
Ethnic residential concentration is often found to hamper immigrants' majority language proficiency. However, there are still several gaps in our understanding of the relationship between ethnic concentration and ethnic minorities' language practices. This study examines the extent to which ethnic concentration also constrains immigrants' majority language use, whether contact with natives and co-ethnics mediates these relationships, and whether ethnic concentration relates to second-generation minorities' minority language proficiency. Structural equation models on data for people of Turkish and Moroccan origin living in the Netherlands (N=2163) showed that ethnic concentration is indirectly related to weaker majority language proficiency and less majority language use through contact with natives and co-ethnics. For second-generation minorities, ethnic concentration is related to better minority language proficiency.
族裔聚居往往会阻碍移民掌握其所在国的主要语言。然而，我们对于族裔聚居与少数民族语言实践之间的关系的理解仍存在一些空白。本研究探讨了族裔聚居在多大程度上也限制了移民使用其所在国的主要语言，以及与本地人及同族人的接触是否会调解这些关系，以及族裔聚居是否与第二代少数民族的少数民族语言能力有关。基于居住在荷兰的土耳其裔和摩洛哥裔人群的数据的结构方程模型（N=2163）表明，族裔聚居通过与本地人及同族人的接触，间接地与较弱的主要语言能力和较少的主要语言使用相关。对于第二代少数民族来说，族裔聚居与更好的少数民族语言能力有关。
