We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …

's preferences. Furthermore, interaction of groups implies more extreme initial behavior but also faster integration. …

abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration …