Comparing integration Host culture adoption and ethnic retention among Turkish immigrants and their descendents in France, Germany and the Netherlands

Evelyn Ersanilli
On the basis of this study several tentative policy recommendations can be made. Policies that grant immigrants and their children a high degree of individual equality – meaning access to citizenship and good protection from discrimination-, have a positive effect on the degree of host culture adoption. It can therefore be expected that the facilitation of access to citizenship in Germany eventually will lead to a higher degree of host culture adoption. Policies that grant immigrants a relatively high extent of accommodation of diversity are more likely to have a negative than a positive impact on host culture adoption...ow naturalisation costs and open and transparent naturalisation procedures will have a positive effect on naturalisation rates.... READ FULL ARTICLE.