International Migration Review
Volume 51, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 999-1030

Social Reproduction of Religiosity in the Immigrant Context: The Role of Family Transmission and Family Formation — Evidence from France (Article)

Soehl T.*
  • a McGill University, Canada

Abstract

This paper compares two aspects of the social reproduction of religion: parent-to-child transmission, and religious homogamy. Analysis of a survey of immigrants in France shows that for parent-to-child transmission, immigrant status/generation is not the central variable — rather, variation is across religions with Muslim families showing high continuity. Immigrant status/generation does directly matter for partner choice. In Christian and Muslim families alike, religious in-partnering significantly declines in the second generation. In turn, the offspring of religiously non-homogamous families is less religious. For Muslim immigrants this points to the possibility of a non-trivial decline in religiosity in the third generation. © 2016 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. All rights reserved.

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Index Keywords

international migration immigration policy Christianity France Islamism immigrant population

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DOI: 10.1111/imre.12289
ISSN: 01979183
Cited by: 7
Original Language: English