CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Cvitic, Josipa |
|---|---|
| Title | Socio-cultural Capital and Immigrants's Political Participation in Austria |
| Summary | How do the skills, experiences, and knowledge that immigrants brought from their home country and those that they acquired in the new host society affect their political participation? Generally, one’s migration background is an obstacle to political involvement. This obstacle is intensified the further away an immigrant’s home country is culturally and democratically. Drawing from transferability and exposure theory, it is expected that various forms of host socio-cultural capital, such as speaking the local language, pursuing cultural activities (e.g., following local news) and establishing a social network that consists of locals contribute to overrule this barrier and make immigrants more politically engaged. Austria is chosen as a case since it hosts a significant share of immigrants. The empirical part consists of an analysis of the ninth wave of the European Social Survey (ESS) and of an original, online survey. The results of the former dataset indicate that the origin of the parents’ home country and the German skills of the respondent matter for their turnout. The second analysis concludes that in addition to linguistic skills, school level education level of first-generation immigrants only, Austrian-related cultural skills and social network are relevant for political involvement. |
| Supervisor | Sata, Robert |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/cvitic_josipa.pdf |
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