Enclaves, language, and the location choice of migrants

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N.

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“…Research has shown that adult members of ethnic minority groups rely heavily on their networks of co-ethnics to gain information about, for instance, the labor market in the host country and to make educational decisions for their children (Bauer et al 2005). It has been suggested that children of migrants adopt the same strategy and rely more heavily on sameethnic friends to gain school information and make educational decisions (Flashman 2014).…”

Section: Mixed Evidence For An Oppositional Culturementioning

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Are there differences in ethnic majority and minority adolescents’ friendships preferences and social influence with regard to their academic achievement?

2017

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Research has established that adolescents both befriend peers based on their academic achievement and adjust their own achievement to that of their friends' over time. However, these processes may be different for ethnic minority students, because some of them may adhere to an oppositional culture that rejects striving for academic success. We examine respective differences between self-identified ethnic minority and majority students using longitudinal social network analysis (stochastic actor-oriented models) in a sample of 1175 students (aged 13) from 12 gradelevel networks in Germany secondary schools. Among the students, we find that academically successful students in particular prefer friends with high grades, but that students with poor grades exert more social influence on their friends to adjust their performance. Moreover, while minority students are indeed less inclined to select friends with higher grades, both ethnic majority and minority youth prefer friends with similar academic achievement and are similarly influenced by their friends' achievement. However, social influence is stronger from same-ethnic than from inter-ethnic friends. In sum, there is mixed evidence for an oppositional culture among ethnic minority students in our sample. Keywords

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Section: Mixed Evidence For An Oppositional Culturementioning

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Are there differences in ethnic majority and minority adolescents’ friendships preferences and social influence with regard to their academic achievement?

2017

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“…These effects are likely to benefit low-skill migrants the most. In part this is due to them being more likely to be credit-constrained, but may be due also to the fact that ethnic enclaves provide services mainly to migrants with low skills in general and low levels of host-language fluency in particular (Borjas, 1999, Chiswick and Miller, 2005, Bauer et al, 2005.…”

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Self-Selection Patterns In Mexico-U.S. Migration : The Role Of Migration Networks

McKenzie

Rapoport

2007

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This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. We first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from Mexico, we then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks, but decreasing with education in communities with high migrant networks. This is consistent with positive self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, as advocated by Chiquiar and Hanson (2005), and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico, as advocated by Borjas (1987 Abstract: This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. We first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from Mexico, we then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks, but decreasing with education in communities with high migrant networks. This is consistent with positive self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, as advocated by Chiquiar and Hanson (2005), and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico, as advocated by Borjas (1987).

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“…In his study of Canada, Owusu (1999) underlines the importance of factors such as personal and cultural preferences, proximity to the ethnic group, the role of social identity, and the effects of actual or perceived discrimination in the housing market. Most studies on immigrants' location choices conducted in the United States argue that immigrants are attracted to large cities where other co-ethnic immigrants have settled before (Zavodny 1997;Jaeger 2000;Bauer et al 2002Bauer et al , 2005. With regard to the United States, Åslund (2005) concluded that the presence of earlier immigrant communities is the primary determinant of recent immigrants' location choices.…”

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Socioeconomic Factors of Immigrants’ Location Choices. Evidence for the South of Europe

Martín

Aguilera

2017

Social Sciences

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This paper takes as a reference, empirical analyses conducted in northern European countries and the United States which associate socioeconomic factors to the location patterns of immigrants. It has been suggested that the socioeconomic context of southern Europe could impact immigrants' location choices. We analyze data on the location of immigrants in municipalities of the Andalusian region in southern Spain with respect to the factors that most influence immigrants' location preferences as discussed in the literature: a pre-existing immigrant community, economic dynamism, population size and other scarcely investigated factors such as the territorial characteristics of the municipality and its productive structure. We conclude that immigrant location patterns in Andalusia are very similar to those found in geographical areas outside Spain, with the exception of specific characteristics related to the social and labor model of the region.

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Enclaves, language, and the location choice of migrants

Cited by 185 publications

References 20 publications

Are there differences in ethnic majority and minority adolescents’ friendships preferences and social influence with regard to their academic achievement?

Are there differences in ethnic majority and minority adolescents’ friendships preferences and social influence with regard to their academic achievement?

Self-Selection Patterns In Mexico-U.S. Migration : The Role Of Migration Networks

Socioeconomic Factors of Immigrants’ Location Choices. Evidence for the South of Europe

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