Publications

Van Tubergen, F. and F. Molteni. 2024. Does parental origin-country culture affect the gender gap in sport participation? A study on immigrant youth in Italy. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, in press. [Link] [Data] [Code]

Van Tubergen, F. and M. Kros. 2024. “Determinants of ethnic harassment among first- and second-generation immigrants in Europe.” European Sociological Review, in press. [Link] [Data] [Code]

Van Tubergen, F., I. Kogan, Y. Kosyakova, S. Pötzschke. 2024. “Self-selection of Ukrainian Refugees and Displaced Persons in Europe.” Journal of Refugee Studies, 37:72-96. [Link] [Data] [Code]

Van Tubergen, F. 2023. ‘What does sociological research tell us about ethnic inequalities in European labour markets?’ Oxford Open Economics, in press. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2023. ‘Ethnic segregation across fields of study in the Netherlands’. Pp. 65-81. In: M. Darmody & E. Smyth (eds.). Post-school pathways of migrant-origin youth in Europe. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. [Link] [Data and code] [Pre-print]

Wuestenenk, N., F. van Tubergen and T. Stark. 2023. “The influence of group membership on online expressions and polarization on a discussion platform: An experimental study.” New Media & Society [Link] [PDF] [Data and Code]

Van Tubergen, F., Y. Kosyakova and A. Kanas. 2023. “Religious responses to existential insecurity: Conflict intensity in the region of birth increases praying among refugees.” Social Science Research [Link] [PDF] [Data and Code]

Mulders, A.M. and F. van Tubergen. 2023. “The role of education in native Dutch adolescents’ Muslim population size perceptions.” Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24, 1137–1156. [Link] [PDF] [Data and Code]

Smith, S., F. van Tubergen, D.A. McFarland, and I. Maas. 2023. “When ERGMs lead to biased samples: Reply to Kretschmer et al.” American Journal of Sociology, 129(2): 586-602.  [Link] [Code]

Kros, M., E. Jaspers and F. van Tubergen. 2023. “Longitudinal changes in interracial hate crimes in the United States, 1990-2014: Does racial composition matter?” Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24, 547-566. [Link] [PDF] [Data and Code]

Wuestenenk, N., F. van Tubergen and T. Stark. 2022. “Attitudes towards homosexuality among ethnic majority and minority adolescents in Western Europe: The role of ethnic classroom composition. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 88, 133-147. [Link] [PDF] [Appendix] [Data and Code]  

Molteni, F. and F. van Tubergen. 2022. “Immigrant generation and religiosity: A study of Christian immigrant groups in 33 European countries. European Societies, 24:5, 605-627. [Link] [PDF] [Appendix] [Data] [Code]

Menshikova, A. and F. van Tubergen. 2022. “What drives anti-immigrant sentiments online? A novel approach using Twitter.” European Sociological Review, 38(5), 694-706. [Link] [PDF] [Appendix] [Code]

Van Tubergen, F. 2022. “Post-migration education among refugees in the Netherlands.” Frontiers in Sociology, 6:787009. [Link] [PDF] [Supplement] [Data] [Code]

Van Slageren, J. and F. van Tubergen. 2022. “Generalised trust among second-generation Muslim and non-Muslim minority groups in Europe.” Journal of Muslims in Europe, 11(2), 263-285. [Link] [PDF] [Data] [Code]

Simsek, M., F. van Tubergen, and F. Fleischmann. 2022. “Religion and intergroup boundaries: Positive and negative ties among youth in ethnically and religiously diverse classes in Western Europe.” Review of Religious Research, 64, 1-33. [Link] [PDF] [Data]

Thijssen, L., F. van Tubergen, M. Coenders, R. Hellpap, and S. Jak. 2022. “Discrimination of Black and Muslim minority groups in Western countries: Evidence from a meta-analysis of field experiments. International Migration Review, 56(3), 843-880.  [Link] [PDF] [Appendix] [Data] [Code]

Van Tubergen, F., T. Cinjee, A. Menshikova, and J. Veldkamp. 2021. “Online activity of mosques and Muslims in the Netherlands: A study of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. PlosONE 16(7): e0254881. [Link] [PDF] [Appendix] [Data]

Van Aalst, D.A.E. and F. van Tubergen. 2021. “More popular because you’re older? Relative age effect on popularity among adolescents in class” PlosONE 16(5), e0249336. [Link] [PDF] [Appendix] [Data]

Hofstra, B., R. Corten, F. van Tubergen. 2021. “Beyond the Core: Who Has Larger Social Networks?” Social Forces, 99, 1274-1305. [PDF] [Appendix] [SocArxiv]

Boer, M. and F. van Tubergen. 2019. “Media messages and attitudes toward Muslims and ethnic minorities: A panel study among ethnic majority adolescents in the Netherlands.” Social Science Research, 83, 102311. [Link] [PDF]

Simsek, M., F. Fleischmann and F. van Tubergen. 2019. Similar or divergent paths? Religious development of Christian and Muslim adolescents in Western Europe. Social Science Research, 79, 160-180. [Link] [PDF] [Data]

Bubritzki, S., F. van Tubergen, J. Weesie and S. Smith. 2018. “Ethnic composition of the school class and interethnic attitudes: a multi-group perspective.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(3), 482-502. [Link] [PDF] [Data]

Jonsson, J., F. Kalter, and F. van Tubergen. 2018. ‘Studying Integration: Minority and Majority Youth in Comparative Perspective’. Pp. 3-39. In: Kalter, F., J.O. Jonsson, F. van Tubergen and A. Heath (eds.). 2018. Growing up in Diverse Europe: The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and S. Smith. 2018. ‘Making Friends across Ethnic Boundaries: Are Personal Networks of Adolescents Diverse?’ Pp. 176-200. In: Kalter, F., J.O. Jonsson, F. van Tubergen and A. Heath (eds.). 2018. Growing up in Diverse Europe: The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. [Link] [PDF]

Simsek, M., K. Jacob, F. Fleischmann and F. van Tubergen. 2018. ‘Keeping or Losing the Faith? Comparing Religion across Majority and Minority Youth in Europe. Pp. 246-273. In: Kalter, F., J.O. Jonsson, F. van Tubergen and A. Heath (eds.). 2018. Growing up in Diverse Europe: The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. [Link] [PDF] [Data]

Geven, S., J. Jonsson and F. van Tubergen. 2017. “Gender Differences in Resistance to Schooling: the Role of Dynamic Peer- Influence and Selection Processes.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46, 2421–2445. [Link] [PDF]

Hofstra, B., R. Corten, F. van Tubergen and N. Ellison. 2017. “Sources of Segregation in Social Networks: A Novel Approach Using Facebook.” American Sociological Review, 83(3), 625-656. [Link] [PDF]

Hofstra, B., R. Corten and F. van Tubergen. 2016. “Understanding the Privacy Behavior of Adolescents on Facebook: The Role of Peers, Popularity and Trust.” Computers in Human Behavior, 60, 611-621. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F., O.A. Al-Modaf, N.F. Almosaed, and M. Ben Said Al-Ghamdi. 2016. “Personal Networks in Saudi Arabia: The Role of Ascribed and Achieved Characteristics.” Social Networks, 45, 45-54. [Link] [PDF]

Geven, S., M. Kalmijn  and F. van Tubergen. 2016. “The ethnic composition of schools and students’ problem behaviour: the role of friends.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(9), 1473-1495. [Link] [PDF]

Hofstra, B., R. Corten and F. van Tubergen. 2016. “Who was first on Facebook? Determinants of Early Adoption among Adolescents.” New Media & Society, 18(10), 2340-2358. [Link] [PDF]

Kruse, H., S. Smith, F. van Tubergen and I. Maas. 2016. “From Neighbors to School Friends? How Adolescents’ Place of Residence relates to same-ethnic School Friendships.” Social Networks, 44, 130-142. [Link] [PDF]

  • Best paper award of the Network Analysis Section of the German Sociological Association, 2017

Smith, S., D.A. McFarland, F. van Tubergen and I. Maas. 2016. “Ethnic Composition and Friendship Segregation: Differential Effects for Adolescent Natives and Immigrants.” American Journal of Sociology, 121(4), 1223-1272. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and M. van Gaans. 2016. “Is there an Oppositional Culture among Immigrant Adolescents in the Netherlands?” Youth & Society, 48, 202-219. [Link] [PDF]

Smith, S., I. Maas and F. van Tubergen. 2015. “Parental Influence on Friendships Between Native and Immigrant Adolescents in Germany and the Netherlands.” Journal for Research on Adolescents, 25(3), 580-591. [Link] [PDF]

Emonds, V. and F. van Tubergen. 2015. “Mixed Parents, Mixed Results: Testing the Effects of Cross-Nativity Partnership on Children’s Educational Attainment.” Sociological Perspectives, 58(2), 145-167. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and B. Volker. 2015. “Inequality in Access to Social Capital in the Netherlands”. Sociology, 49(3), 521-538. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2015. “Ethnic Boundaries in Core Discussion Networks: A Multilevel Social Network Study of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(1), 101-116. [Link] [PDF]

Martinovic, B., F. van Tubergen and I. Maas. 2015. “A Longitudinal Study of Interethnic Contacts in Germany: Estimates from a Multilevel Growth Curve Model.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(1), 83-100. [Link] [PDF]

Schimmer, P. and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “Transnationalism and Ethnic Identification among Adolescent Children of Immigrants in the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Sweden.” International Migration Review, 48(3), 680-709. [Link] [PDF]

Spörlein, C. and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “The Occupational Status of Immigrants in Western and non-Western Societies.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 55(2), 119-143. [Link] [PDF]

Smith, S., I. Maas and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “Ethnic ingroup friendships in schools: testing the by-product hypothesis in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.” Social Networks, 39, 33-45. [Link] [PDF]

De Hoon, S. and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “The Religiosity of Children of Immigrants and Natives in England, Germany and the Netherlands: The Role of Parents and Peers in Class.” European Sociological Review, 30(2), 194-206. [Link] [PDF]

Van der Pol, J. and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “Inheritance of religiosity among Muslim immigrants in a secular society.” Review of Religious Research, 56(1), 87-106. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and T. Mentjox. 2014. “Minority Language Proficiency of Adolescent Immigrant Children in Four European Countries.” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozial Psychologie (Suppl), 66, 241-262. [Link] [PDF]

Kanas, A. and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “The Conditional Returns to Origin-Country Human Capital among Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants in Belgium.” Social Science Research, 46, 130-141. [Link] [PDF]

Blommaert, L., M. Coenders and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “Ethnic Discrimination in Recruitment and Decision Makers’ Features: Evidence from Laboratory Experiment and Survey Data using a Student Sample.” Social Indicators Research, 116(3), 731-754. [Link] [PDF]

Blommaert, L., M. Coenders, and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “Discrimination of Arabic-named applicants in the Netherlands: An internet-based field experiment examining different phases in online recruitment procedures.” Social Forces, 92(3), 957-82. [Link] [PDF]

Spörlein, C., E. Schlüter and F. van Tubergen. 2014 “Ethnic intermarriage in longitudinal perspective: Testing structural and cultural explanations in the United States, 1880–2011.” Social Science Research, 43, 1-15. [Link][PDF]

De Vroome, T. and F. van Tubergen. 2014. “Settlement Intentions of Recently Arrived Immigrants and Refugees in the Netherlands.” Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 12(1), 47-66. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2014. “Size and Socio-Economic Resources of Core Discussion Networks in the Netherlands: Differences by National Origin Group and Immigrant Generation” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(6), 1020-1042. [Link] [PDF]

Geven, S., J. Weesie, and F. van Tubergen. 2013. “The influence of friends on adolescents’ behavior problems at school: the role of ego, alter and dyadic characteristics.” Social Networks, 35, 583-592. [Link] [PDF]

Seibel, V. and F. van Tubergen. 2013. “Job Search Methods among Non-Western Immigrants in the Netherlands.” Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 11(3), 241-258. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2013. “Religious Change of New Immigrants in the Netherlands: The Event of Migration.” Social Science Research, 42(3), 715-725. [Link] [PDF]

Immerzeel, T. and F. van Tubergen. 2013. “Religion as Reassurance? Testing the Insecurity Theory in 26 European Countries.” European Sociological Review, 29(2), 359-372. [Link] [PDF]

Kanas, A., B. Chiswick, T. van der Lippe and F. van Tubergen. 2012. “Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany.” International Migration Review, 46(3), 680-709. [Link] [PDF]

Smith, S., I. Maas and F. van Tubergen. 2012. “Irreconcilable differences? Ethnic Intermarriage and Divorce in the Netherlands, 1995-2008.” Social Science Research, 41(5), 1126-1137. [Link] [PDF]

Blommaert, L., F. van Tubergen, M. Coenders. 2012. “Implicit and Explicit Interethnic Attitudes and Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring.” Social Science Research, 41(1), 61-73. [Link] [PDF]

De Vroome, T., M. Coenders, F. van Tubergen and M. Verkuyten. 2011. “Economic Participation and National Self-Identification of Refugees in the Netherlands” International Migration Review, 45, 615-638. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2011. “Social Stratification, Race and Ethnicity.” In: G. Ritzer, Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and M. Wierenga. 2011. “Language Acquisition of Male Immigrants in a Multilingual Destination: Turks and Moroccans in Belgium” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37(7), 1039-1057. [Link] [PDF]

Martinovic, B., F. van Tubergen and I. Maas. 2011. “Acquisition of Cross-Ethnic Friends by Recent Immigrants in Canada: A Longitudinal Approach.” International Migration Review, 45(2), 460-488. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2011. “Job Search Methods of Refugees in the Netherlands: Determinants and Consequences.” Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 9(2), 179-195. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and J.I. Sindradóttir. 2011. “The Religiosity of Immigrants in Europe: A Cross-National Study.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50(2), 272-288. [Link] [PDF]

Kanas, A., F. van Tubergen and T. van der Lippe. 2011. “The Role of Social Contacts in the Employment Status of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany.” International Sociology, 26(1), 95-122. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2010. “Determinants of Second Language Proficiency among Refugees in the Netherlands” Social Forces, 89(2), 515-534. [Link] [PDF]

Smits, F., S. Ruiter and F. van Tubergen. 2010. “Religious Practices Among Islamic Immigrants: Moroccan and Turkish Men in Belgium” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 49(2), 247-263. [Link] [PDF]

De Vroome, T. and F. van Tubergen. 2010. “The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands.” International Migration Review, 44(2), 376-403. [Link] [PDF]

Kalmijn, M. and F. van Tubergen. 2010. “A Comparative Perspective on Intermarriage: Explaining Differences in Marriage Choices among National Origin Groups in the United States.” Demography, 47(2), 459-479. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and A-R. Poortman. 2010. “Adolescent Alcohol Use in the Netherlands: The Role of Ethnicity, Ethnic Intermarriage, and Ethnic School Composition.” Ethnicity and Health, 15(1), 1-13. [Link] [PDF]

Ultee, W., R. Luijkx, and F. van Tubergen. 2009. “The Netherlands and World War II, Jews and Suicide.” Pp. 73-92 in: L. Sher and A. Vilens (eds.). War and Suicide. Nova Science Publishers.

Ruiter, S. and F. van Tubergen. 2009. “Religious Attendance in Cross-National Perspective: A Multilevel Analysis of 60 Countries.” American Journal of Sociology, 115(3), 863-895. [Link] [PDF]

Kanas, A. and F. van Tubergen. 2009. “The Impact of Origin- and Host-Country Schooling on the Economic Performance of Immigrants.” Social Forces, 88(2), 893-916. [Link] [PDF]

Martinovic, B., F. van Tubergen, and I. Maas. 2009. “Changes in Immigrants’ Social Integration during the Stay in the Host Country: The Case of Non-Western Immigrants in the Netherlands.” Social Science Research, 38, 870-882. [Link] [PDF]

Kanas, A., F. van Tubergen and T. van der Lippe. 2009. “Immigrant Self-Employment: Testing Hypotheses about the Role of Origin- and Host-Country Human Capital and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital.” Work and Occupations, 36, 181-208. [Link] [PDF]

Martinovic, B., F. van Tubergen and I. Maas. 2009 “Dynamics of Interethnic Contact: A Panel Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands.” European Sociological Review, 25, 303-318. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and M. Kalmijn. 2009. “A Dynamic Approach to the Determinants of Immigrants’ Language Proficiency:  The United States, 1980-2000.” International Migration Review, 43, 519-543. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and M. Kalmijn. 2009. “Language Use and Proficiency among Immigrants in the Netherlands: Opportunities or Incentives?” European Sociological Review, 25, 169-182. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2008. “The Impact of the Partner on the Economic Incorporation of Male and Female Immigrants: Household Specialization or Social Capital?” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozial Psychologie (special issue), 307-324. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and H. van de Werfhorst. 2007. “Postimmigration Investments in Education: A Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands.” Demography, 44, 883-898. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and I. Maas. 2007. “Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants in the Netherlands: An Analysis of Population Data.” Social Science Research, 36, 1065-1086. [Link] [PDF]

Van de Werfhorst, H. and F. van Tubergen. 2007. “Ethnicity, Schooling and Merit in the Netherlands.” Ethnicities, 7(3), 416-444. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2007. “Religious Affiliation and Participation among Immigrants in a Secular Society: A Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(5), 747-65. [Link] [PDF]

Kalmijn, M. and F. van Tubergen. 2006. “Ethnic Intermarriage in the Netherlands: Confirmations and Refutations of Accepted Insights.” European Journal of Population, 22, 371-97. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2006. “Occupational Status of Immigrants in Cross-National Perspective: A Multilevel Analysis of 17 Western Societies.” Pp. 147-171 in: Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, edited by G. Parsons and T. Smeeding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and W. Ultee. 2006. “Political Incorporation, War and Suicide: The Dutch Paradox?” International Sociology, 21, 221-36. [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2006. “Religious Affiliation and Participation among Immigrants in Eight Western Countries: A Cross-National Study of Individual and Contextual Effects.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 45, 1-22. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. 2005. “Self-Employment of Immigrants: A Cross-National Study of 17 Western Societies.” Social Forces, 84, 709-32. [Link] [PDF]

 Van Tubergen, F., M. Te Grotenhuis, and W. Ultee. 2005. “Denomination, Religious Context, and Suicide: Neo-Durkheimian Multilevel Explanations Tested with Individual and Contextual Data.” American Journal of Sociology, 111, 797-823. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F. and M. Kalmijn. 2005. “Destination-Language Proficiency in Cross-National Perspective: A Study of Immigrant Groups in Nine Western Countries.” American Journal of Sociology, 110, 1412-57. [Link] [PDF]

Van Tubergen, F., I. Maas, and H. Flap. 2004. “The Economic Incorporation of Immigrants in 18 Western Societies: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects.” American Sociological Review, 69, 701-24. [Link] [PDF]

Ultee, W., F. van Tubergen, and R. Luijkx. 2001. “The unwholesome theme of suicide: Forgotten statistics of attempted suicides in Amsterdam and Jewish suicides in the Netherlands for 1936-1943.” Pp. 325-353. In C. Brasz & Y. Kaplan (eds), Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands. Leiden: Brill. [Link] PDF]