Collective action of immigrants from Turkey living in Germany [Elektronische Ressource] / Meral Gezici Yalçin

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• Soziologie

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• Publié par: philipps-universitat_marburg
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Collective Action of Immigrants from Turkey
Living in Germany



Dissertation
Doctoral Grade of Natural Science
(Dr. rer. nat.)




Psychology Department
Philipps-Universität Marburg



Meral Gezici Yalçın
from Ankara


Marburg/Lahn 2007





















Vom Fachbereich Psychologie der Philipps-Universität Marburg als Dissertation
am 04.06.2007 angenommen.




Erstgutachter : Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wagner
Zweitgutachter : Prof. Dr. Mathias Bös


Tag der mündlichen Prüfung am 27.06.2007

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To all migrants













iiiAcknowledgement
This Dissertation couldn’t be realized without the support by my supervisor Prof. Dr. Ulrich
Wagner. During my work in AG Sozialpsychologie I learned a lot in both theory and
methodology. My many thanks go to him, for his trust, feedbacks, and efforts. I want to thank
to all members of AG and Hiwis who contributed to my Dissertation and provided a good
atmosphere in our working place. Among those I especially want to thank to Dr. Oliver Christ
who has always found a solution to my –quite a lot of– questions. Thank you very much
Oliver, without you it would be very difficult to progress. Dr. Jost Stellmacher translated my
scales into German, helped me in contacting and writing letters to Berufschulen and
accompanied me when I had to visit them. Thank you very much for all your favors that I can
not count here. I also thank to Gwen Elprana for the English corrections.
My very special thanks go to my family who supported me very much since I told them my
wish to move to Germany. Thank you so much for always trusting my ideas. I am thankful to
my best friend and spouse Serhat Yalcin who inspired me through the fruitful discussions
about migrants and migration. I want to thank to my family-in-law, and to my very dear
friends in Turkey for their intellectual and emotional support.
Finally, I thank to all immigrants who participated in the surveys and made this work real. I
began to understand not only the socio-political grievances but also the psychological grief of
immigrants which they have experienced for decades when I migrated to Frankfurt am Main
to work as an internal psychologist in a youth centre. In those days, I was very interested in
the issues like how the first generation of migrants had overcome their problems and how it
had been developed through the next generations. The present work is a result of such
motivation, and behind this work a lot of feelings and thoughts are hidden. This work is
dedicated to my former fellows, immigrants.
iv Table of Contents
Abstract ...................................................................................................................................viii
Zusammenfassung....................................................................................................................xii
I. INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT OF THE RESEARCH ................................................ 1
1. A Quick View on Migration from Turkey to Germany ..................................................... 2
1.1. Motivations of Migrants to Initiate Migration ............................................................ 4
1.2. Negotiating Identities .................................................................................................. 5
1.3. Class Differentiation within Immigrant Population .................................................... 6
2. Intergroup Relations and Conflict in Germany.................................................................. 7
II. COLLECTIVE ACTION .................................................................................................... 11
3. Intergroup Theories of Collective Action ........................................................................ 13
3.1. Self-Categorization Theory....................................................................................... 13
3.2. Social Identity Theory............................................................................................... 15
3.3. Perceived Grievances ................................................................................................ 18
3.3.1. Perceived Discrimination ................................................................................... 18
3.3.1.1. Perceiving Personal versus Group Discrimination...................................... 19
3.3.1.2. Attribution of Discrimination...................................................................... 20
3.3.2. Relative Deprivation .......................................................................................... 21
3.4. Integrated Models for Collective Action................................................................... 27
III. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS ........................................ 32
4. Empirical Evidences......................................................................................................... 32
4.1. Findings on the SIT Assumptions ............................................................................. 32
4.1.1. Results from Experimental Studies .................................................................... 32
4.1.1.1. The Effect of Group Status and Belief System on Ingroup Identification .. 32
4.1.1.2. The Effect of Belief System on Strategy Choice ........................................ 34
4.1.2. Results from Field Studies: Belief System and Its Effect on Strategy Choice .. 35
4.2. Findings on Perceived Grievances ............................................................................ 37
4.2.1. Perceived Discrimination and Its Attribution..................................................... 37
4.2.2. Consequences of Perceived Discrimination for Group Identification ............... 38
4.2.3. Relative Deprivation in Relation with Ingroup Identification and Collective
Action ........................................................................................................................... 40
4.3. Findings on Collective Action of Immigrants........................................................... 42
5. Framework and the Research Questions .......................................................................... 45
IV. STUDY 1 ........................................................................................................................... 50
6. Method ............................................................................................................................. 51
6.1. Procedure and Participants ........................................................................................ 51
6.2. Measures.................................................................................................................... 52
7. Results .............................................................................................................................. 56
7.1. Procedure................................................................................................................... 56
7.2. Data screening ........................................................................................................... 58
7.3. Normal Distribution and Multivariate Outliers......................................................... 58
7.4. Scales......................................................................................................................... 60
7.4.1. EFAs................................................................................................................... 60
7.4.2. CFAs and Reliabilities ....................................................................................... 61
7.4.2.1. Ingroup Identification.................................................................................. 62
7.4.2.2. Perceived Discrimination ............................................................................ 64
v 7.4.2.3. Collective Action......................................................................................... 64
7.5. Findings on Ingroup Identification............................................................................ 68
7.6. Findings on Collective Action................................................................................... 69
7.6.1. Interaction Analyses........................................................................................... 69
7.6.2. Mediation Model ................................................................................................ 70
8. Discussion ........................................................................................................................ 72
V. STUDY 2............................................................................................................................. 77
9. Method ............................................................................................................................. 80
9.1. Procedure................................................................................................................... 80
9.2. Par