Author: Fernando PeñalosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Central Americans in Los Angeles
Author: Fernando PeñalosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Ethnic Los Angeles
Author: Roger WaldingerPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610445473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Since 1965 more immigrants have come to Los Angeles than anywhere else in the United States. These newcomers have rapidly and profoundly transformed the city's ethnic makeup and sparked heated debate over their impact on the region's troubled economy. Ethnic Los Angeles presents a multi-investigator study of L.A.'s immigrant population, exploring the scope, characteristics, and consequences of ethnic transition in the nation's second most populous urban center. Using the wealth of information contained in the U.S. censuses of 1970, 1980, and 1990, essays on each of L.A.'s major ethnic groups tell who the immigrants are, where they come from, the skills they bring and their sources of employment, and the nature of their families and social networks. The contributors explain the history of legislation and economic change that made the city a magnet for immigration, and compare the progress of new immigrants to those of previous eras. Recent immigrants to Los Angeles follow no uniform course of adaptation, nor do they simply assimilate into the mainstream society. Instead, they have entered into distinct niches at both the high and low ends of the economic spectrum. While Asians and Middle Easterners have thrived within the medical and technical professions, low-skill newcomers from Central America provide cheap labor in light manufacturing industries. As Ethnic Los Angeles makes clear, the city's future will depend both on how well its economy accommodates its diverse population, and on how that population adapts to economic changes. The more prosperous immigrants arrived already possessed of advanced educations and skills, but what does the future hold for less-skilled newcomers? Will their children be able to advance socially and economically, as the children of previous immigrants once did? The contributors examine the effect of racial discrimination, both in favoring low-skilled immigrant job seekers over African Americans, and in preventing the more successful immigrants and native-born ethnic groups from achieving full economic parity with whites. Ethnic Los Angeles is an illuminating portrait of a city whose unprecedented changes are sure to be replicated in other urban areas as new concentrations of immigrants develop. Backed by detailed demographic information and insightful analyses, this volume engages all of the issues that are central to today's debates about immigration, ethnicity, and economic opportunity in a post-industrial urban society.
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development
Author: A Reference Guide to Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Caribbean Studies
Author: Bibliographie internationale sur le bilinguisme
Author: William Francis MackeyPublisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763769912
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Research Grants Index
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research GrantsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Immigration in America Today
Author: James LouckyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313083096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
America today is witnessing the largest and most sustained wave of immigrants its borders have ever seen. Although factors like the Great Depression, World War II, and quota restrictions had slowed the massive influx of Europeans from the early part of the 20th century, policies like the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have relaxed quotas and opened America's doors to hundreds of thousands of immigrants a year, from both Eastern and Western hemispheres, to reach a height of over 9 million immigrants in the 1990s. Today, immigrants and policy-makers alike grapple with issues regarding employment, education, refugee status, and family reunification; as well as illegal immigrants—many from Mexico, whose legal immigration alone accounts for more than 20% of immigrants in the US. Despite this, this comprehensive reference source allows a glimpse of the same motivating factors that drove earlier immigrants through Ellis Island's gates—the promise of economic opportunity and the hope of a better life. Over 70 A-Z entries address topical and timely aspects of modern US immigration, including: ; bilingual education ; domestic work ; employer sanctions ; gangs ; gender ; homeland security ; migrant education ; posttraumatic stress disorder ; stereotypes
Doctoral Dissertations on Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Nelly S. GonzalezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Multiple Marginality and Gangs
Author: James Diego VigilPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 179361332X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly unravels the youth gang problem in a multidimensional approach that encompasses the place, status, social control, subcultural, and identity facets of urban street gangs. The power of place and the status of persons and groups are the major forces that generate the many situations and conditions that give rise to gangs. In its simplest trajectory, Multiple Marginality can be modeled as follows: place/status to street socialization to street subculture to street identity. It is the actions and reactions among them that we fathom. As we witness detrimental or absent family influence, we also observe weaker, underfunded schools that limit educators’ reach. At the same time, there has been an increase in the militarization of law enforcement to deal with the youth street populations, the heaviest hand is that of the police. There is a causal relationship between social marginalization factors and gang membership. A psychological analysis also entails how street socialization leads to a street identity. In a place and status group, the cascading effects of marginalization have certainly affected—and mostly thwarted—social control institutions.