Ethnic Retention and Host Culture Adoption among Turkish Immigrants in Germany, France and the Netherlands: A Controlled Comparison

Evelyn Ersanilli and Ruud Koopmans
MIPEX shows that in spite of post-9/11 changes in integration policies in many countries, Dutch policies still grant immigrants asier access to rights than German and French policies...in line with Koopmans et al.'s (2005) findings, they show that Germany scores particularly low on access to nationality and anti-discrimination (where France and the Netherlands are very close together), whereas France scores lowest among the three countries (and the Netherlands highest) on the indicator cluster that most clearly taps group rights, namely political participation, which includes special consultative bodies for immigrants and subsidies for their organizations.... READ FULL ARTICLE.