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When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants.

Immigrants with higher levels of education tend to report more discrimination and a weaker attachment to their destination country than immigrants with lower levels of education. This so-called integration paradox may be caused by two basic, mutually independent mechanisms: highly educated immigrant...

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Published in:Social Forces Vol. 104; no. 4; pp. 1519 - 1539
Main Authors: Genoni, Andreas, Ruedin, Didier
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2026
Subjects:
Switzerland
Educational attainment
Human migration patterns
Race discrimination
Emigration & immigration
Equality
Assimilation of immigrants
Place attachment (Psychology)
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