International Migration Review
Fall 2014 Volume 48, Issue 3 Pages 577–917
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.2014.48.issue-2/issuetoc

SPECIAL SECTION OF IMMIGRATION POLICY IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES

Original Article
Transnationalism and Ethnic Identification among Adolescent Children of Immigrants in the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Sweden
Paulien Schimmer1 and Frank van Tubergen2
Article first published online: 9 APR 2014
DOI: 10.1111/imre.12084
Abstract
Inspired by the emerging literature on transnationalism in the United States, this paper studies the return visits of adolescent children of immigrants in four European countries. Using data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, cross-classified multilevel analyses indicate that parental economic resources, ethnic motivations, and political suppression are related to adolescent children of immigrants’ return visits. Furthermore, return visits are positively related to adolescents’ identification with the origin country and negatively to adolescents’ identification with the host country.