Julia Rüdel’s research while affiliated with Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences and other places

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Publications (2)


Direct and indirect effects for perceived loneliness among newly arrived migrants
Perceived loneliness: Why are Syrian refugees more lonely than other newly arrived migrants in Germany?
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September 2024

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Comparative Migration Studies

Julia Rüdel

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Marie-Pier Joly

Migration often impacts the mental and emotional health of those needing to move from their home countries. Studies have focused on migrants’ levels of distress or well-being, and recent research looks at older migrants’ experience with loneliness. What has yet to be researched is how different migrant groups experience loneliness, and how these feelings are affected by the contexts of leaving one country and reception in another. Drawing on the theoretical framework of integration, this article asks whether newly arrived refugees in Germany differ in their perception of loneliness from other newly arrived migrants. It examines these perceptions as related to social contacts and the context—and interplay—of exit and reception. Using OLS regressions with data from the Recent Immigration Processes and Early Integration Trajectories in Germany (ENTRA) project, we find that Syrian refugees have higher levels of loneliness than migrant groups from Poland, Italy, and Turkey. The difference is largely attributable to Syrians not having local German contacts, surviving traumatic experiences at home, and migrating specifically for physical safety. We also find that discrimination and not being in the labor force are determinants of loneliness across all four groups, and that even when considering migrant origins and other effects, having local social contacts lowers levels of loneliness. Our results point to migration policies, such as those related to family reunification and labor market access, for producing inequalities in loneliness between Syrian refugees and other migrants in Germany.

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Simplified autoregressive cross-lagged (ARCL) model
‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany

February 2024

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Comparative Migration Studies

This article examines the link between immigrants’ social capital and their labour market access (employment) and success (occupational status) in Germany and contributes to previous research in two ways. Firstly, based on insights from theories of social capital and immigrant integration, we overcome the mere distinction between inter- and intra-ethnic ties. Instead, we approximate resources immigrants can access and mobilize by considering both the ethnic and socioeconomic compositions of their networks. Secondly, by using autoregressive cross-lagged panel models, we properly deal with the methodological challenge of endogeneity inherent to studies concerned with the relationship between social capital and labour market outcomes. Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel the empirical findings indicate the necessity of considering both the ethnic and socioeconomic compositions of immigrants’ networks—as both have independent effects on immigrants’ labour market integration. We conclude that future research on the relationship between immigrants’ social capital and their economic integration may benefit from approximating resources available through social contacts by considering not only the ethnic dimension but also the socioeconomic dimension of contacts.

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... It can be recovered during the integration process (Rüdel & Steinmann, 2024), but the very possibility of its recovery can be influenced by various factors. It is important to understand which factors make possible the development of social capital after migration, and which become obstacles. ...

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Social capital development after migration: the role of employment, children and gender factors for Russian post-2022 migrants
‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany

Comparative Migration Studies