The impact intergenerative transmission processes have on the assimilation of Turkish adolescents of the 'second generation' in Germany is studied with new data. Special regard is laid to the social networks of the parents' generation as well as the children's generation. In a first step, four possible outcomes of intercultural contact situations are distinguished, namely integration, assimilation, segregation and marginalization. An explanatory model is proposed by relating these possible outcomes systematically to the availability of social and cultural capital within migrant families. Accordingly, the conditions for the outcome 'assimilation' are theoretically specified. The empirical analysis based on 400 father-son-dyads or mother-daughter-dyads, respectively, shows that the social relations of Turkish migrant families rarely cross kinship lines. The theoretical model developed for the explanation of assimilation processes is empirically tested by using a structural equation model. As a main result, it can be stated that family resources and processes of intergenerative transmission are of major importance for the integration of Turkish migrants into the German society.

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