As a second generation of migrants grows up in the FRG, questions that are of central importance for all immigrant societies have also become relevant for German society: What does integration mean and what does marginalisation mean? What determines whether integration succeeds or leads to marginalisation or even permanent exclusion? These questions were analysed for the second generation of Turkish migrants in the dimensions of work, social networks and housing. The study is based on the one hand on interviews with second-generation Turkish migrants living in two typical migrant neighbourhoods and on the other hand on interviews with gatekeepers of the labour and housing market, i.e. people who decide on access and placement in the workplace or housing on the basis of their academic appointment. Publications:

• Gestring, Norbert & Andrea Janßen 2002: Sozialraumanalysen aus stadtsoziologischer Sicht. In: Riege, Marlo & Herbert Schubert (eds.): Sozialraumanalyse. Basics - Methods - Practice. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 147-160
• Janßen, Andrea 2002: On the segregation and living situation of the Turkish population in Hanover. In: Landeshauptstadt und Region Hannover (ed.): Statistischer Vierteljahresbericht Hannover 101, IV
• Gestring, Norbert, Andrea Janßen & Ayèa Polat 2003: "Als Gegend einer der schönsten Hannovers" - Migranten in einer Großsiedlung. In: Information on spatial development H.3/4, 207-216
• Siebel, Walter, Norbert Gestring, Andrea Janßen & Ayèa Polat 2003: Between integration and marginalisation. Living conditions of second-generation Turkish migrants. In: Heine, Hartwig, Michael Schumann & Volker Wittke (eds.): Niedersächsischer Forschungsverbund Technikentwicklung und gesellschaftlicher Strukturwandel I. Göttingen, 173-207
• Bremer, Peter & Norbert Gestring 2004: Migrants - marginalised? In: Häußermann, Hartmut, Martin Kronauer & Walter Siebel (eds.): An den Rändern der Städte. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 258-285
• Gestring, Norbert, Andrea Janßen & Ayèa Polat 2004: Integrationspfade - Die zweite Generation in den USA und in Deutschland. In: Siebel, Walter (ed.): The European City. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 230-243
• Janßen, Andrea 2004: Segregation in large cities. The problem of measurement and interpretation. In: Stadtforschung und Statistik, H. 1, 19-22. Excerpted in: Häußermann, Hartmut & Walter Siebel 2004: Urban Sociology. Frankfurt a.M., New York: Campus, 140-143
• Janßen, Andrea 2004: "Es ist 'ne soziale Gegend" - Benachteiligende Effekte in Migrantenvierteln? In: Walther, Uwe Jens & Kirsten Mensch (eds.): Armut und Ausgrenzung in der "Sozialen Stadt". Concepts and recipes put to the test. Darmstadt: Schader Foundation, 26-42
• Janßen, Andrea and Ayèa Polat 2004: About resources and restrictions: The role of the neighbourhood for the integration of migrants. In: Wiechmann, Thorsten and Oliver Fuchs (eds.): Planning and Migration. Hanover: Academy for Spatial Research and Planning, 88-99
• Gestring, Norbert, Andrea Janßen, Ayèa Polat & Walter Siebel 2004: The second generation of Turkish migrants. In: Insights. Research Magazine of the University of Oldenburg No. 40, 8-11
• Siebel, Walter 2005: Objective and subjective factors of integration or marginalisation. In: Network partner "Zuwanderer in der Stadt" (ed.): Zuwanderer in der Stadt - Expertises on the project. Darmstadt: Schader Foundation, 149-174
• Siebel, Walter 2005: Large housing estates and old inner-city neighbourhoods: Effects of different spatial conditions on the integration process of migrants. In: Network partner "Zuwanderer in der Stadt" (ed.): Zuwanderer in der Stadt - Expertises on the project. Darmstadt: Schader Foundation, 383-406
• Gestring, Norbert 2005: Parallel societies - a commentary. In: Gestring, Norbert, Herbert Glasauer, Christine Hannemann, Werner Petrowsky & Jörg Pohlan (eds.): Yearbook StadtRegion 2004/05. Focus: Shrinking City. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (forthcoming)

• Interim Report, Nov. 2002
• Interim Report (English), June 2003

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