Suárez Jorge, Hannikainen Ivar R
Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Front Sociol. 2025 Apr 1;10:1504127. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1504127. eCollection 2025.
In Europe, although integration of the immigrant population is acknowledged as a multidimensional challenge, the precise dimensions of integration have varied considerably throughout the past decades and between nations. Nowadays, most states have adopted 'civic integration' programmes to some extent, thereby placing weight on the acquisition of 'national moral values', implying that successful integration requires the assimilation of certain core values and implementing various strategies to instil these in immigrants. However, critics of civic integration have called into question whether the adoption of a host society's normative values facilitates immigrants' own integration. To provide evidence on this matter, we leverage data from the European Social Survey, collected between 2002 and 2020 ( = 261,830) and examine how immigrants' self-reported values relate to their integration. Our analyses ask whether value assimilation predicts improvements in immigrants' occupational status, socialization, and political participation throughout 27 countries in the European Union. We find that differences in moral values account, at most, for a fraction of the integration gap between natives and immigrants. These results therefore call into question the assimilationist principle that adopting a host society's values is conducive to immigrants' integration.
在欧洲，尽管移民人口的融合被公认为是一个多维度的挑战，但在过去几十年间以及不同国家之间，融合的具体维度差异很大。如今，大多数国家在一定程度上都采用了“公民融合”计划，从而重视“国家道德价值观”的获取，这意味着成功的融合需要吸收某些核心价值观，并实施各种策略将这些价值观灌输给移民。然而，公民融合的批评者质疑采用东道国社会的规范价值观是否有助于移民自身的融合。为了就此问题提供证据，我们利用了2002年至2020年期间收集的欧洲社会调查数据（样本量 = 261,830），并研究移民自我报告的价值观与他们的融合情况之间的关系。我们的分析探讨了在欧盟的27个国家中，价值观同化是否能预测移民在职业地位、社会化和政治参与方面的改善。我们发现，道德价值观的差异最多只能解释本地人和移民之间融合差距的一小部分。因此，这些结果对采纳东道国社会价值观有利于移民融合的同化主义原则提出了质疑。
