{"id":37719,"date":"2025-07-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=37719"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:00:00","slug":"integration-for-whom-the-migration-bias-in-social-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=37719","title":{"rendered":"Integration for whom? The migration bias in social norms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s) : Stefan Manser-Egli, Philipp Lutz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/euso.a.30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/euso.a.30<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Integration has become a dominant framework in the governance of immigration, indicating what states and \u201chost societies\u201d expect immigrants to do and how to behave to become accepted members of the receiving country. Critical scholarship has argued that this creates an unequal normative burden: \u201cimmigrants\u201d are subject to integration demands while \u201cnative citizens\u201d are exempt. Despite this widely acknowledged \u201cintegration dispensation\u201d, the asymmetry of expectations has not been empirically tested. In this article, we conceptualize immigrant integration in terms of social norms \u2013 expectations regarding the social, economic, cultural, and political participation \u2013 and develop a theory of a migration bias: the idea that these norms are stronger for immigrants than for society at large. We test this hypothesis using a population-based survey experiment in Switzerland. Our results provide evidence for a migration bias, particularly in the social dimension of integration and expectations concerning respect for laws and constitutional values. However, this bias is context-dependent, appearing in the German-speaking part of Switzerland but not in the French-speaking counterpart. These findings provide novel insights into the popular understanding of immigrant integration and the nature of social norms and citizenship in diverse societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keywords : integration, social norms, migration bias, survey experiment, integration dispensation, citizenship<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Stefan Manser-Egli, Philipp Lutz Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/euso.a.30 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[306,7,70,151,176,9,41,123,91,181],"class_list":["post-37719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-family-racism","tag-306","tag-article","tag-citizenship","tag-cultural-identity","tag-economic-integration","tag-english-language","tag-integration","tag-political-participation","tag-social-integration","tag-survey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}