Socioeconomic Inequalities among Girls and Boys of the Second Generation: Longitudinal and Intergenerational Effects of Gendered Segregation

The project purpose is to examine the persistent socioeconomic inequalities among young men and women with a migrant background in gendered residential contexts, using a longitudinal and intergenerational perspective and employing mixed methods.

We aim to study how gender and segregation shape neighbourhood effects on educational and labour market outcomes using register data, to uncover the gendered and contextual attitudes and obstacles to socioeconomic integration using survey data, and to reveal how young descendants of immigrants negotiate their educational and labour market aspirations, using interviews.

Theoretically, we aim to contribute to disentangling the mechanisms of neighbourhood effects, pinpointing the salience of female and male role models.

Our team of three human geographers and demographers will use individualized neighbourhoods in combination with cutting-edge methods for the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic outcomes.

The different data and methods will complement and inform each other and will in 4-years’ time provide evidence of the obstacles to better outcomes in school and the labour market for the descendants of immigrants, and the role of gendered norms and role models in the neighbourhood, which will inform policies needed to improve vulnerable groups’ lives in Sweden.