Divided Fates: Immigrant Children in a Restructured U.S. Economy

Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia; Schauffler, Richard

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“…More assimilated children are likely to have friends outside their own ethnic group (who are often, but not always, native-born Americans), while less assimilated children are likely to have friends within their same ethnic/immigrant groups Assimilation measures based on this idea can be found in studies by Bankston and Zhou (1997), Fernandez-Kelly and Schauffler (1994), Harris, Harker, and Guo (2003), Portes and Rumbaut (2001), Portes and Zhou (1993), and Zhou and Bankston (1994).…”

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“…Several scholars have argued that the assimilation and upward mobility of the 1890–1920 wave of immigrants were facilitated by the manufacturing-based economic expansion of that time period, while today's service-based postindustrial economy, in which hourly service jobs pay much less than those in manufacturing, is less favorable for the incorporation of new low-skill workers (Suarez-Orozco and Suarez-Orozco 2001; Zhou 1997a; Massey 1995; Fernandez-Kelly and Schauffler 1994; Portes and Zhou 1993; Gans 1992). This new economy is sometimes referred to in the literature as the “hourglass” economy, consisting of a relatively large demand for both college-educated professional workers at the top and low-paid, low-skilled service workers at the bottom, but not much in between.…”

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The social context of assimilation: Testing implications of segmented assimilation theory

Xie

Greenman

2011

Social Science Research

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Segmented assimilation theory has been a popular explanation for the diverse experiences of assimilation among new waves of immigrants and their children. While the theory has been interpreted in many different ways, we emphasize its implications for the important role of social context: both processes and consequences of assimilation should depend on the local social context in which immigrants are embedded. We derive empirically falsifiable hypotheses about the interaction effects between social context and assimilation on immigrant children's well-being. We then test the hypotheses using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Our empirical analyses yield two main findings. First, for immigrant adolescents living in non-poverty neighborhoods, we find assimilation to be positively associated with educational achievement and psychological well-being but also positively associated with at-risk behavior. Second, there is little empirical evidence supporting our hypotheses derived from segmented assimilation theory. We interpret these results to mean that future research would be more fruitful focusing on differential processes of assimilation rather than differential consequences of assimilation.

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The social context of assimilation: Testing implications of segmented assimilation theory

Xie

Greenman

2011

Social Science Research

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“…A network of coethnics can serve as a satisfying well spring of shared experiences that positively affects individual immigrant adjustment (Kosic, Kruglanski, Pierro, & Manneti, 2008). On the other hand, being embedded in a heritage-culture community of coethnics may obstruct immigrants’ exposure to or adopting facets of the culture of destination (Rodriguez, Myers, Mira, Flores, & Garcia-Henandez, 2002; Schwartz, Pantin, Sullivan, Prado, Szapocznik, 2006a), and ethnic enclaves may harbor concentrated poverty thereby circumscribing immigrants to resource-poor settings (Chiswick & Miller, 2005; Fernandez-Kelly & Schauffler, 1996; Galster, Metzger, & Waite, 1999; Osypuk, Galea, McArdle, & Acevedo-Garcia, 2009; Portes & Landolt, 1996). For example, island-born Puerto Ricans living in ethnically dense, low-SES neighborhoods report worse health than comparable island-born Puerto Ricans living in non-ethnic neighborhoods (Roy, Hughes, & Yoshikawa, 2013).…”

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The Specificity Principle in Acculturation Science

Bornstein

2017

Perspect Psychol Sci

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The Specificity Principle in Acculturation Science asserts that specific setting conditions of specific people at specific times moderate specific domains in acculturation by specific processes. Our understanding of acculturation depends critically on what is studied where, in whom, how, and when. This article defines, explains, and illustrates the Specificity Principle in Acculturation Science. Research hypotheses about acculturation can be more adequately tested, inconsistencies and discrepancies in the acculturation literature can be satisfactorily resolved, acculturation interventions can be tailored to be more successful, and acculturation policies can be brought to new levels of effectiveness if the specificity principle that governs acculturation science is more widely recognized.

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“… 1 The voluminous literature includes – among others – Akresh and Frank (2008), Alba and Nee (2003), Bean and Stevens (2003), Curran, Garip, Chung, and Tangchonlatip (2005), Donato, Gabaccia, Holdaway, Manalansan, and Pessar (2006), Elo, Mehta, and Huang (2011), Fernández-Kelly (1995), Gans (1999, 2005, 2007), Hersch (2007), Jasso and Rosenzweig (1990), Massey (2003), Massey, Alarcón, Durand, and González (1987), Massey, Arango, Hugo, Kouaouci, Pellegrino, and Taylor (1993), Mincer (1978), Ogbu (1974), Portes and Rumbaut (1990, 2001, 2006), Rumbaut, Massey, and Bean (2006), Valdés (2003), Waldinger (2001), and Waters (1990, 1999). …”

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Migration and stratification

Jasso

2011

Social Science Research

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Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances - who gets what and why - and migration is about improving life chances - getting more of the good things of life. To examine the interconnections of migration and stratification, we address a mix of old and new questions, carrying out analyses newly enabled by a unique new data set on recent legal immigrants to the United States (the New Immigrant Survey). We look at immigrant processing and lost documents, depression due to the visa process, presentation of self, the race-ethnic composition of an immigrant cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin-color diversity among couples formed by U.S. citizen sponsors and immigrant spouses, and English fluency among children age 8–12 and their immigrant parents. We find, inter alia, that children of previously illegal parents are especially more likely to be fluent in English, that native-born U.S. citizen women tend to marry darker, that immigrant applicants who go through the visa process while already in the United States are more likely to have their documents lost and to suffer visa depression, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens to overturn racial and skin color associations with skill. Our analyses show the mutual embeddedness of migration and stratification in the unfolding of the immigrants' and their children's life chances and the impacts on the stratification structure of the United States.

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Divided Fates: Immigrant Children in a Restructured U.S. Economy

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The social context of assimilation: Testing implications of segmented assimilation theory

The social context of assimilation: Testing implications of segmented assimilation theory

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