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Paths to Adulthood: A Focus on the Children of Immigrants in the Netherlands

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The transition to adulthood is a key phase in the life course of an individual and has been studied extensively (Goldscheider and Goldscheider 1999; Settersten et al. 2005). The existing literature in Europe covers different aspects of the transition to adulthood but still mainly focuses on the majority or native populations in European societies (Corijn and Klijzing 2001; Liefbroer and Dykstra 2000; Widmer and Ritschard 2009). Much less is known on how the children of immigrants make the transition to adulthood and what factors are relevant here. Young adults of migrant origin are, however, a growing share of the young adult population in many European countries.

This study was carried out when the author was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) guest professor at the University of Bremen and fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Delmenhorst Germany.

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    The TIES survey was carried out by survey bureaus under supervision of the nine national TIES partner institutes: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the Institute for Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO), University of Leuven in Belgium; the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in France; the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM) of the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland; the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO) of the University of Stockholm in Sweden; the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies.

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  1. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute the Hague and Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 11650, 2502 AR, The Hague, The Netherlands

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  1. Bremen International Graduate School of, Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Matthias Wingens

  2. AG Migration und Stadtforschung, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Michael Windzio

  3. , Department of Social Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussel, 1055, Belgium

    Helga de Valk

  4. Bremen International Graduate School of, Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Can Aybek

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Table A1 Coding of family life course states for each year for the young adults in the sample
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Table A2 Multinominal logit coefficients for predicting cluster of family life transitions (ref category: early family life cluster)
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de Valk, H. (2011). Paths to Adulthood: A Focus on the Children of Immigrants in the Netherlands. In: Wingens, M., Windzio, M., de Valk, H., Aybek, C. (eds) A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1545-5_8

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