Author: Atisha GhoshPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Three Essays on Immigration and Institutions
Author: Atisha GhoshThree Essays on Immigrant Political Incorporation in the US
Author: Sheilamae AblayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 141
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With the growing population of immigrants and minorities in the US there is increasing interest in their political incorporation. The literature on minority political participation posits that racial contexts—features of the local community that shape minority political participation—can influence immigrants’ engagement in mainstream political institutions. However, how racial contexts matter for the political incorporation of Asians and Latinos—the two fastest growing groups in the US due to immigration and the coming of age of the children of immigrants—is not well understood. Based on the premise that racial contexts influence individual political participation, this dissertation builds on previous research to advance our understanding of how racial contexts shape different benchmarks of political incorporation, whether they vary in influence for Asians versus Latinos, and whether there is variation across different immigrant generations. The overarching premise of the dissertation is that the political incorporation of Asian and Latinos is influenced by the racial contexts to which they are exposed. These contexts may present obstacles to political participation as well as provide resources that facilitate it. In three essays my dissertation explores the influence of racial contexts on outcomes of political incorporation. Each essay presents analysis of Current Population Survey data linked with Census 2000 and institutional data measuring contexts of segregation, group size, and ethnic organizations. While the assimilation perspective suggests that integration of immigrants occurs through exposure to mainstream institutions, the findings of this dissertation suggest that ethnoracial communities facilitate the naturalization, voting, and volunteering of Asian and Latino immigrants. The findings suggest that group size and ethnic organizations allow immigrants to find their footing in a new country by providing social networks and resources that facilitate political participation.
Three Essays on Immigration and Social Policy
Author: Tsewang RigzinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This dissertation consists of three papers at the intersection of social policy and immigration. The first paper analyzes the impact of immigrant welfare exclusion on government social spending at both an aggregate and specific social program level, using cross-national social expenditure panel data from 21 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries between 1990 and 2015 and taking advantage of the significant variation in welfare exclusivity across OECD countries by year. The second paper utilizes the variation in states' response to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion to investigate its effects on low-income immigrants' inter-state mobility, specifically in-migration, and out-migration. Finally, the third paper utilizes data from the National Survey of Children's Health to examine the effect of the announcement of the Trump administration's revised Public Charge rule on insurance coverage and other health outcomes for children of immigrant parents.
Three Essays on Minority and Immigrant Outcomes in a New Era of Immigration Enforcement
Author: Ashley MuchowPublisher:
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Category : Illegal aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Toward the end of the 20th century, the U.S. witnessed a wave of immigration made up of both legal residents and a large undocumented population that have since settled, started families, and developed strong community ties. Modern immigration policy has concentrated heavily on enforcement in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, and a growing body of research suggests these escalations may carry unintended social consequences. This dissertation consists of three interrelated studies that seek to disentangle the structural factors that affect levels of economic and social integration of minority and immigrant populations. Using data from Los Angeles, this dissertation focuses on two aspects of public life critical to productive and healthy living: the labor market and public safety. The first chapter considers how undocumented immigrants fare in the labor market. The second examines whether recent escalations in immigration enforcement influenced the willingness of Latino immigrants to engage with the police. Finally, the third chapter evaluates the effectiveness of community policing in reducing crime and increasing police engagement in predominately-Latino neighborhoods. Overall, this dissertation suggests that enforcement-focused immigration policy intensifies barriers to integration and may jeopardize public safety, but there are tools localities can use to improve conditions in affected communities. I find both real and perceived exclusions limit immigrants' access to the formal labor market and law enforcement, and conclude with evidence of a promising approach to improve public safety in minority communities. These findings stress the need for federal immigration policies that balance enforcement with maintaining resident confidence in public institutions and encouraging the well-being and advancement of vulnerable populations.
Three Essays on Immigration and Finance
Author: Peter GroznikThree Essays on the Antecedents and Mechanisms Leading to the Unfair Treatment of Immigrants
Author: Steve BinggeliPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Citizens, Strangers, And In-betweens
Author: Peter SchuckPublisher: Westview Press
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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A recognized authority in the field of immigration law presents a cogent and coherent overview of modern U.S. immigration policies and their consequences.
Highly Skilled Migration, Science and Innovation
Author: Edoardo FerrucciThree Essays on Social Determinants of Students' Skills
Author: Juan Diego Luksic ZilianiPublisher:
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Languages : en
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This thesis comprises three essays on how social context moderates the impact of different shocks on kids' skills. In the first essay, I study the impact of one of the largest earthquakes and tsunami on students' primary and secondary school skills. After this event, the government reacted effectively to recover economic activity but overlooked the interventions to treat the trauma-related effects on children and their families. Using rich admin data, I find that the earthquake and the tsunami accounted for fewer days of formal education - because of damages in school infrastructure- and an increase of post-traumatic stress disorder prevalence among adults. Surprisingly, there is no impact on educational outcomes in primary school due to the earthquake or the tsunami. Children exposed in primary school do, however, show a negative effect on skills when they are in secondary school, and this effect is stronger for children exposed early in primary school. These results show that these events have a larger impact on children when exposed younger and that these negative effects surge during adolescence. This evidence is consistent with the prominent surge of mental health pathologies during adolescence. In the second essay, I study how migration-induced neighborhood changes can affect native test scores. Migration waves can change the composition of neighborhoods through immigrant arrivals and native relocations. There is literature analyzing immigrant effects on native students by studying peer effects in schools. By identifying the variation in the composition of classroom peers, such approaches can capture the impacts of the neighborhood composition only in part. In this paper, I compare the results of two different methods to analyze the impact of immigration on children's test scores and show broader changes in neighborhood effects indeed can be important. My paper exploits the recent migratory phenomenon in Chile, where from 2012 to 2019 immigrant population increased from near 1 % to 8 %. I estimate the neighborhood influence on native test scores following Chetty and Hendren's (2018) methodology. On average, I find a negative impact of foreign students on municipality effects. Then, I estimate the immigrant peer effect on native test scores. I find a precise null effect using two methods: a comparison across school cohorts and classes. These results show that immigration did not affect natives directly but rather through changes in the neighborhood. Exploring native composition changes, I find that immigration induces native flight and increases socio-economic segregation across schools. These results are consistent with migration changing neighborhoods by influencing a change in the composition of natives. The third essay, joint with Nicolas Navarrete and Claudio Allende, studies how students respond when off-platform universities participate in the centralized admission system in Chile. In 2011, eight new universities (G8) were incorporated into the platform used already by 25 universities (G25). In a difference-in-difference setting, we exploit G8 location and compare students who graduated from high school in a G8 city with those in non-G8 cities. Using administrative data on university, platform application and high school enrolment, we find that the inclusion of G8 universities increases student sorting. Women and students from lower backgrounds benefit the most, implying gains in equity and efficiency. These gains, however, do not remain in long-term outcomes such as graduation and enrolment after five years. Moreover, preferences for G25 universities decrease after the second year of the reform. We hypothesize that platform releasing cutoffs one year after the reform induces the change in listing preference, but heterogeneity results do not support this mechanism.
My (Underground) American Dream
Author: Julissa ArcePublisher: Center Street
ISBN: 1455540250
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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A National Bestseller! What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San Antonio, she worked tirelessly, achieved academic excellence, and landed a coveted job on Wall Street, complete with a six-figure salary. The level of professional and financial success that she achieved was the very definition of the American dream. But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to reveal the physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning secret that she, like many other high-achieving, successful individuals in the United States, had been forced to keep not only from her bosses, but even from her closest friends. From the time she was brought to this country by her hardworking parents as a child, Arce-the scholarship winner, the honors college graduate, the young woman who climbed the ladder to become a vice president at Goldman Sachs-had secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant. In this surprising, at times heart-wrenching, but always inspirational personal story of struggle, grief, and ultimate redemption, Arce takes readers deep into the little-understood world of a generation of undocumented immigrants in the United States today- people who live next door, sit in your classrooms, work in the same office, and may very well be your boss. By opening up about the story of her successes, her heartbreaks, and her long-fought journey to emerge from the shadows and become an American citizen, Arce shows us the true cost of achieving the American dream-from the perspective of a woman who had to scale unseen and unimaginable walls to get there.