Institutional Completeness of Ethnic Communities and the Personal Relations of Immigrants

Many researchers, in attempting to explain the integration of immigrants, have stressed the factors pertaining to the social background, the motivation, and the primary group affiliations of the immigrant.2 In the present study the view was adopted that some of the most crucial factors bearing on the absorption of immigrants would be found in the social organ-ization of the communities which the immigrant contacts in the receiving country. There are three communities which are relevant: the community of his ethnicity, the native (i.e., receiving) community, and the other ethnic communities.