In this article, we start out from theoretical concepts about different types of migrants that feature prominently in the immigration literature. By applying latent class analysis to a unique ‘mini-panel’ data set on recent Polish and Turkish immigrants in Germany, we identify two types of migrants that are in line with the literature, namely settlers and target-earners. We label a third group that is best described as educational target-earners: ‘young learners/professionals’. Regarding variation in these groups’ early sociocultural integration patterns, results suggest that they reflect primarily differences in migrants’ intention to stay, individual resources such as education, and opportunities for integration related to newcomers’ involvement in the educational system or labour force. In sum, migrant types – though certainly more intuitively appealing and vivid than single ‘variables’ – seem to have limited explanatory power when it comes to predicting newcomers’ early integration trajectories.

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定居者、目标收入者、年轻的专业人​​士。不同的移民类型，不同的融入轨迹？

在本文中，我们从关于不同类型移民的理论概念开始，这些概念在移民文献中占有突出地位。通过对德国近期波兰和土耳其移民的独特“迷你面板”数据集应用潜在类别分析，我们确定了两种符合文献的移民类型，即定居者和目标收入者。我们将第三个群体标记为最适合描述为教育目标获得者的群体：“年轻学习者/专业人士”。关于这些群体早期社会文化融合模式的差异，结果表明，它们主要反映了移民留下来的意愿、个人资源（如教育）以及与新移民参与教育系统或劳动力相关的融合机会的差异。总共，