Author: Emily Wornell Seregow Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Starting in the early 1990s, immigration settlement patterns in the United States underwent an unprecedented shift. For a variety of reasons, immigrants, primarily from Mexico and Latin America, who had traditionally settled in five states began to disperse more widely throughout the entire country. Relatively suddenly, cities and small towns that had little previous experience with immigration saw significant increases in their Latino immigrant populations, and Hispanic populations in many of these places have continued to grow since. Not only did this open a new area of research new Hispanic destinations but it also threw into question much of what sociologists understood about assimilation and integration. This research contributes to both bodies of research by using the informal work as a proxy for the assimilation process of Latino immigrants in new, U.S. destinations. Moreover, by considering the development and use of networks of informal work, this research also relies heavily upon, and contributes to, the literature in both informal work and social networks. Because there is no one source of data that can speak directly to the complicated and evolving sociological phenomena of interest, this paper uses a three-paper dissertation format and employs a mixed-methods approach. The first paper uses national-level survey data on informal work to examine the role of this work in U.S. households generally. The second paper looks at the formal economic integration of Latinos in traditional and several categories of new destinations using the U.S. Census and American Community Survey data. The final paper uses a case study to examine the inter- and co-ethnic networks of informal work in a new, rural Hispanic destination in Oregon. Being positioned at the nexus of multiple established literatures and theory assimilation and integration, new destination migration, informal work, and social networks this research has the ability to contribute not only to a better understanding of each of these areas separately, but also to how they interact with one another in a way that has not been considered in the past. Findings highlight the role of informal work as a potential protection against poverty and its non-economic community building role, and they call into question the understanding that participation in informal work relies on labor force attachment and having a good job. These findings also show that returns to work and human capital are lower in rural communities and nonmetropolitan new destinations for both Latinos and non-Hispanic whites, which may make the reliance on informal work more important, but may also slow assimilation. Several policy responses are suggested, including formalizing the system of informal work, addressing inequality in rural communities, and assisting in the assimilation process and community response to changing demographics in new destinations.
Author: Renee Luthra Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 1610448758 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 357
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The children of immigrants continue a journey begun by their parents. Born or raised in the United States, this second generation now stands over 20 million strong. In this insightful new book, immigration scholars Renee Luthra, Thomas Soehl, and Roger Waldinger provide a fresh understanding the making of the second generation, bringing both their origins and destinations into view. Using surveys of second generation immigrant adults in New York and Los Angeles, Origins and Destinations explains why second generation experiences differ across national origin groups and why immigrant offspring with the same national background often follow different trajectories. Inter-group disparities stem from contexts of both emigration and immigration. Origin countries differ in value orientations: immigrant parents transmit lessons learned in varying contexts of emigration to children raised in the U.S. A system of migration control sifts immigrants by legal status, generating a context of immigration that favors some groups over others. Both contexts matter: schooling is higher among immigrant children from more secular societies (South Korea) than among those from more religious countries (the Philippines). When immigrant groups enter the U.S. migration system through a welcoming door, as opposed to one that makes authorized status difficult to achieve, education propels immigrant children to better jobs. Diversity is also evident among immigrant offspring whose parents stem from the same place. Immigrant children grow up with homeland connections, which can both hurt and harm: immigrant offspring get less schooling when a parent lives abroad, but more schooling if parents in the U.S. send money to relatives living abroad. Though all immigrants enter the U.S. as non-citizens, some instantly enjoy legal status, while others spend years in the shadows. Children born abroad, but raised in the U.S. are all everyday Americans, but only some have become de jure Americans, a difference yielding across-the-board positive effects, even among those who started out in the same country. Disentangling the sources of diversity among today’s population of immigrant offspring, Origins and Destinations provides a compelling new framework for understanding the second generation that is transforming America.
Author: Mary C. WATERS Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674044944 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 431
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The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309165075 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 176
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Given current demographic trends, nearly one in five U.S. residents will be of Hispanic origin by 2025. This major demographic shift and its implications for both the United States and the growing Hispanic population make Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies a most timely book. This report from the National Research Council describes how Hispanics are transforming the country as they disperse geographically. It considers their roles in schools, in the labor market, in the health care system, and in U.S. politics. The book looks carefully at the diverse populations encompassed by the term "Hispanic," representing immigrants and their children and grandchildren from nearly two dozen Spanish-speaking countries. It describes the trajectory of the younger generations and established residents, and it projects long-term trends in population aging, social disparities, and social mobility that have shaped and will shape the Hispanic experience.
Author: Elżbieta M. Goździak Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739106372 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 138
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This handbook provides a review of promising practices and strategies facilitating immigrant integration, especially in new settlement areas. The purpose of this handbook is to foster a constructive approach to newcomers and community change.
Author: Paul N. McDaniel Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1666955795 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 347
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Despite the velocity and scale of the cumulative changes of immigrant integration and receptivity infrastructures in fast growing regions of the United States, less research has focused on the new and evolving experiences in these regions in recent years. Editors Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez and the contributors in Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States fill this gap through case studies of different types of immigrant gateway metro areas. They provide insight into how immigrant settlement, integration, and receptivity processes and practices within each metro area have continued to evolve beyond the nascent experiences documented in the early 2000s. This interdisciplinary volume examines ongoing processes in not only well-established immigrant gateways, but also in previously overlooked regions. This book is a resource for researchers, students, and practitioners to contextualize the ongoing changes in new destination metropolitan regions in the United States and to learn from the challenges, opportunities, and best practices emerging from different metropolitan regional contexts.
Author: Ruth McAreavey Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351661221 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. New Immigration Destinations examines structural forces and individual strategies and behaviour to highlight the opportunities and challenges for ‘new’ destination areas arising from new economic and cultural mobility. Representing a "second wave" in studies of in-migration, this volume examines patterns in "non-traditional" rural and peripheral migration destinations, with a particular case study on Northern Ireland. Indeed, focusing mainly on events in the host society, this book shows how processes of migrant incorporation are complex and rely on multifarious influences including the state, community, individuals and families. Accordingly, the book develops of migration and social integration within rural/peripheral destinations. This subsequently provides clarification of many of the contested concepts including transnationalism; integration, acculturation and assimilation; ‘new’ destinations; and migrants and ethnic minorities. Focusing on the local and the micro with a strong sense of research, social and policy reality, this timely volume critically engages with original theories of migration, thus providing a much fuller conceptual and theoretical understanding that is required in the emerging field of migration studies within a rapidly changing and uncertain world. This book’s interdisciplinary nature will appeal to policymakers, scholars, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of disciplines including Sociology (Race and Ethnic Studies), Human Geography (Migration, Demography), Political Economy and Community Development.
Author: Douglas S. Massey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 390
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... aims to explain the dramatic shift in the geography of immigrant settlement since the 1990s, and to explore its wide-ranging consequences for new receiving communities in the South and Midwest- from changed intergroup relations to the responses of local institutions and the immigrants themselves.
Author: Fran Ansley Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 1572336528 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 410
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In recent decades, Latino immigration has transformed communities and cultures throughout the southeastern United States--and become the focus of a sometimes furious national debate. Global Connections and Local Receptions is one of the first books to provide an in-depth consideration of this profound demographic and social development. Examining Latino migration at the local, state, national, and binational levels, this book includes studies of southeastern locales and a statewide overview of Tennessee. Leading migration scholar Alejandro Portes offers a national analysis while Raul Delgado Wise provides a Mexican perspective on the migration issue and its policy implications for both the United States and Mexico. This collection contains a broad base of contributions from legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and political scientists. Readers will find demographic data charting trends in immigration, descriptions of organizing and of individual experiences, a quantitative comparison of new and old destinations, a critical history of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades, a report on access to housing and efforts to enact anti-immigrant laws, an assessment of how mass outmigration currently affects the national economy and communities in Mexico, analysis of the way dominant ideology frames black-brown relationships in southern labor markets, and a concluding essay with detailed recommendations for making U.S. immigration policy just and humane.
Author: Susan F. Martin Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739152424 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 309
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A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers. Just as the process is difficult and distressing for the immigrants, it is likewise a significant cause of stress for the regions in which they settle. Long homogeneous communities experience overnight changes in their populations and in the demands placed on schools, housing, law enforcement, social services, and other aspects of infrastructure. Institutions have not been well prepared to cope. Local governments have not had any significant experience with newcomers and nongovernmental organizations have been overburdened or simply nonexistent. There has been a substantial amount of discussion about these new settlement areas during the past decade, but relatively little systematic examination of the effects of immigration or the policy and programmatic responses to it. New Immigrant Communities is the first effort to bridge the gaps in communication not only between the immigrants and the institutions with which they interact, but also among diverse communities across the United States dealing with the same stresses but ignorant of each others' responses, whether successes or failures.
Author: Emily Wornell Seregow
Author: Renee Luthra
Author: Mary C. WATERS
Author: National Research Council
Author: Elżbieta M. Goździak
Author: Paul N. McDaniel
Author: Ruth McAreavey
Author: Douglas S. Massey
Author: Fran Ansley
Author: Susan F. Martin