Growing Up in the Immigration Society: Leaving the Parental Home among Young Adults of Turkish and German Origin

In this volume the results of a comparative analysis are presented that deal with processes of leaving the parental home among young adults who grew up in Germany. Using the first wave data of the German Generations and Gender Survey the move-outs of autochthonous Germans and Turkish immigrants are compared to each other. The study is guided by theoretical considerations from migration research, family sociology of as well as the research on intergenerational relations. An approximation of the patterns of leaving the parental home between autochthonous Germans and immigrants of Turkish origin would be a pertinent indicator of integration and acculturation, as moving out of the parental home generally requires intergenerational reconciliation and can be heavily influenced by the norms and values of both the parents’ and children’s generation. The results of the analyses indicate that value orientations indeed have a significant impact on the moving-out behaviour of individuals - be they Turkish immigrants or autochthonous Germans. Particularly pronounced are differences with respect to gender between both groups. A core finding of the study is that leaving the parental home among the Turkish immigrants is much more connected to marriage and family formation than it is the case for autochthonous Germans. For the latter group, however, over the birth cohorts a decoupling between the events of leaving the parental home and marriage is observable, whereas such a trend is not detectable for immigrants of Turkish origin.1 Einleitung 7 2 Problemstellung: Auszug aus dem Elternhaus im sozialen Wandel 11 3 Daten und Methoden 19 3. 1 Auszüge der Kinder der Befragten 19 3.2 Auszüge der Befragten 22 3.3 Auszugsintentionen 24 4 Familienbezogene Wertorientierungen bei einheimischen Deutschen und türkischen Immigranten 27 5 Ergebnisse der Ereignisdatenanalysen: Auszüge der Kinder der Befragten 35 5.1 Empirische Befunde über Auszüge der Kinder der Befragten 35 5.2 Auszug der Generation der Kinder der Befragten: Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerung 57 6 Der Auszug der Befragtengeneration: Effekte familienbezogener Wertorientierungen und intervenierender Lebensereignisse 61 6.1 Auszüge aus dem Elternhaus zweier in Deutschland lebender Gruppen: türkische Immigranten und einheimische Deutsche im Vergleich 62 6.2 Restriktion des Samples türkischer Immigranten auf Auszüge in Deutschland 89 7 Lebensumstände, Wohnsituation und Auszugsintentionen 117 8 Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen der Studie 121 9 Anhang 125 10 Literatur 14