Hispanics, Social Capital, and Civic Engagement

Segura, Gary M.; Pachon, Harry; Woods, Nathan D.

doi:10.1002/ncr.90108

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“…Although the process of becoming a citizen does not include formal training with regard to civic roles of citizens such as volunteering, immigrants who become naturalized citizens may be more assertive in learning about and taking on the customs of their new country, including volunteer participation, than those who do not seek citizenship. For example, Segura, Pachon, and Woods (2001) found that "noncitizens uniformly had less experience volunteering, working on problems, giving money, and contacting officials" (p. 89).…”

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Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Volunteering to Organizations

Sundeen

García

Raskoff

2008

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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This article reports the findings of a study of volunteering to organizations among native-born and immigrant African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Whites in the United States. The authors focus on the questions, do ethnic groups differ in their likelihood of volunteering, and are these differences a function of acculturation? The conceptual framework to explain formal volunteering includes acculturation, personal and social capital, gender, and age. Using logistic regression analysis, the authors find that acculturation explains formal volunteering only partially and differently among the groups and that each native-born and immigrant group has its own unique combination of predictors of volunteering.

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Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Volunteering to Organizations

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García

Raskoff

2008

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…This question probes the extent to which panethnic identifiers reflect and/or act to create a sense of commonality and collective identity; this can also be seen as group consciousness, and has been considered a building block for civic and political action (Barreto et al, 2009;Hooker, 2009;Cheong et al, 2007;Junn, 2006;Sanchez, 2006;McBride, 2005;Stokes, 2003;Segura et al, 2001; for counter argument, see Uslaner and Conley, 2003). The overwhelming majority of respondents (87.6%) do indeed attest to feeling solidarity with other Latinos (see Table 4.9 below).…”

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“…A second explanation uses Verba et al's (1995) American immigrant and American-born Latino populations, whose levels of human capital and SES are generally lower than the white, non-Latino and overall population in the US (Jones-Correa, 2001;Segura et al, 2001;Leighley and Vedlitz, 1999;Verba et al, 1993); furthermore, and as discussed in Chapter Two, Little Havana is a poor neighborhood in a poor city and as such SES levels are lower across the board. Using this explanation to interpret the above findings, however, contradicts expectations in that the least sensitive dependent variables are also those which require the least amount of human capital and know-how whereas the most sensitive requires some levels of education.…”

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“…have cast a ballot in the past two years. Such high rates are surprising given that Latinos are known in general to have one of the lowest electoral participation rates of any group, in part because of noncitizenship and youth (DeSipio, 2005;Segura et al, 2001;Leighley and Vedlitz, 1999;Arvizu and Garcia, 1996;Verba et al, 1995;Verba and Nie, 1972). When compared to self-reported electoral participation by SCCBS (see Table 6.14 below), Little Havana's voter registration level (87.8%) surpasses the overall population (80%) as well the white, non-Latino (85%) and Latino (48%) (53% and 58% in 2002, and 54% and 60% in 2006, respectively) are somewhat higher than SCCBS levels (see Table 6.15 below).…”

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“…The relationship between civic activities and the factors that have been theorized to determine behavior are also generally very inconsistent and support the argument that scholars must move beyond the SES model to understand engagement, especially when considering immigrant communities Jones-Correa, 2001;Jones-Correa and Leal, 2001;Segura et al, 2001;Leighley and Vedlitz, 1999;Verba et al, 1993).…”

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Placing Immigrant Incorporation: Identity, Trust, and Civic Engagement in Little Havana

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Findings reveal that overall Latin American immigrants and their American-born offspring appear to be becoming American with regard to their ethnic and racial identities vi quickly, evidenced through the salience and active employment of panethnic labels, while at the same time they are actively reshaping the identificational structure. The Latino population, however, is not monolithic and is cleaved by diversity within the group, including country of origin and socioeconomic status. These same factors impede group cohesion in terms of trust and its correlate, community. Nevertheless, the historically dominant ancestry group in Little Havana -Cubans -has been able to reach notable levels of trust and build and conserve a more solid sense of community than non-Cuban residents. With respect to civic engagement, neighborhood residents generally participate at rates lower than the overall US population and ethnic subpopulations. This is not the case for political engagement, however, where self-reported voting registration and turnout in Little Havana surpasses that of most benchmarked populations. The empirical evidence presented in this dissertation on the case of Latinos in Little Havana challenges the ways that identity, trust, and civic engagement are conceptualized and theorized, especially among immigrants to the US.

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Findings from a Community-based Participatory Prevention Research Intervention Designed to Increase Social Capital in Latino and African American Communities

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Farquhar

Wiggins

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J Immigrant Minority Health

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A community-based participatory research intervention, Poder es Salud/Power for Health, employed Community Health Workers who used popular education to identify and address health disparities in Latino and African American communities in a metropolitan area in the United States. We assessed participants' social capital, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms at baseline and the end of the intervention. Social support and self-rated health improved while depressive symptoms decreased. Public health interventions involving diverse communities that are designed to build upon assets, such as existing levels of social capital, may improve health in those communities.

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Hispanics, Social Capital, and Civic Engagement

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Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Volunteering to Organizations

Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Volunteering to Organizations

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Findings from a Community-based Participatory Prevention Research Intervention Designed to Increase Social Capital in Latino and African American Communities

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