Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter

Abstract The cultural integration of immigrants conditions their overall socio-economic as well natives’ attitudes towards globalisation in general and immigration particular. At the same time, excessive integration—or assimilation—can be detrimental that it implies forfeiting one’s ties to origin country eventually translates into a loss diversity (from viewpoint host countries) global connections both home countries). Cultural can described using two dimensions: preservation links culture, which we call attachment , creation new together with adoption traits from residence country, destination . In this paper introduce means quantify these aspects based on Twitter data. We build indices analyse possible determinants (e.g., language proximity, distance between countries), also relation Hofstede’s dimension scores. results stress importance language: common countries favours attachment, does low proficiency language. Common geographical borders seem favour attachment. Regarding dimensions, larger differences among terms Individualism, Masculinity Uncertainty appear lower