%A Hernan Rilla
%L theses_frw3840
%D 2022
%X This research project revolves around the topic of life-course perspective on migration. The integration process that migrants experience after migration is a multi-faceted process with various stages and themes to it. This report focuses on the consumption of cultural goods of international migrants in the Netherlands, and how this consumption affects their sense of belonging. The process of integration can be accelerated through the consumption of cultural goods and by paying attention to cultural capital. Music, literature, language and religion are all parts of culture that differ between communities and countries. As a result, particular communities of migrants will find it easier/harder to integrate and make efforts to increase their cultural capital in the host country. These differences are explored in this report through statistical analysis of survey data collected on migrants in the Netherlands in 2013. The main findings of this study show that language is the most significant variable out of the ones studied when it comes to the sense of belonging in the host society. Music and literature also have a significant effect on the sense of belonging, while belonging to a religious community only has a significant effect on limited people and specific cases. Although having differences and being exposed to Dutch culture for different amounts of time, the variance in results between native, first generation and second generation migrants are not as large as originally predicted.
%T Impact of consumption of Dutch cultural goods by international migrants on their sense of belonging in the host society.