Are Western European countries successfully incorporating their immigrant populations? We approach immigrant incorporation as a process of intergenerational social mobility and argue that mobility trajectories are uniquely suited to gauge the influence of immigrant origins on life chances. We compare trajectories of absolute intergenerational mobility among second generation and native populations using nationally representative data in seven European countries and report two major findings. First, we document a master trend of native–immigrant similarity in mobility trajectories, suggesting that the destiny of the second generation — like that of their native counterpart — is primarily determined by parental social class rather than immigrant background per se. Secondly, disaggregating results by regional origins reveals heterogeneous mobility outcomes. On one hand, certain origin groups are at heightened risks of stagnation in the service class when originating from there and face some disadvantage in attaining the top social class in adulthood when originating from lower classes. On the other hand, we observe a pattern of second-generation advantage, whereby certain origin groups are more likely to experience some degree of upward mobility. Altogether, these results suggest that immigrant origins per se do not strongly constrain the socioeconomic destiny of the second generation in Western Europe.

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西欧国家是否成功地吸收了其移民人口？我们将移民融入视为代际社会流动的过程，并认为流动轨迹特别适合衡量移民出身对生活机会的影响。我们使用七个欧洲国家的全国代表性数据比较了第二代和本地人口的绝对代际流动轨迹，并报告了两项主要发现。首先，我们记录了本地人和移民在流动轨迹上的相似性的主要趋势，这表明第二代的命运——就像他们的本地人一样——主要由父母的社会阶层决定，而不是移民背景本身。其次，按地区来源分类的结果揭示了不同的流动结果。一方面，某些起源群体在出身于服务阶级时面临着较高的停滞风险，而在出身于下层阶级时，在成年后达到最高社会阶层时面临着一些不利条件。另一方面，我们观察到第二代优势的模式，即某些起源群体更有可能经历某种程度的向上流动。总而言之，这些结果表明，移民出身本身并没有强烈限制西欧第二代的社会经济命运。

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