Immigration Reform and the Browning of America: Tensions, Conflicts and Community Instability in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Johnson, James H.; Farrell, Walter C.; Guinn, Chandra

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“…Immigrants are not representative of those from their host countries; they tend to be the most motivated and least likely to offend (Tonry 1997). Many of these recent immigrants will reside in better neighborhoods than their low-income counterparts in the United States (Johnson et al 1997) and bring significant resources including employment opportunities to the area (Kotkin 2000;Sampson 2008;Stansfield 2013; U.S. Department of Commerce 2010). Even among the less-skilled and less-educated recent arrivals, property crime may not be motivated by economic motives.…”

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“…Many Mexican households, for example, turn to migration for instrumental reasons as an adaptive strategy to compensate for missing or failed economic markets in Mexico, sending those able to the United States-common in a society undergoing transition to a developed market society (Durand and Massey 2004). Many of these recent immigrants will not only reside in better neighborhoods than their low-income counterparts in the United States (Johnson, Farrell, and Guinn 1997), but may also bring significant resources to the area (Sampson 2008). Consistent with this, the number of Hispanic-owned businesses has grown at rates far exceeding the growth rate for all U.S. businesses over the past two decades (Castillo 2010; U.S. Department of Commerce 2010).…”

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Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

Stansfield

Akins

Rumbaut

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Sociological Perspectives

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In this article the authors examine the impact of recent immigration on rates of serious property crime across communities in Austin, Texas. The greater Austin foreign-born population has increased by more than 580 percent since 1980, and Austin is considered a “preemerging” immigrant gateway city to the United States. The changing population dynamics in Austin provide an excellent opportunity to study the effect of recent immigration on crime in a target destination for recent immigrants. Although interest in the relationship between violent crime and immigration to new locales is evidenced by recent studies that show less favorable outcomes for Latinos in new destinations, little attention has been directed to the relationship of recent immigration with serious property crime in new destinations. Negative binomial regression models with corrections for spatial autocorrelation indicate that recent immigration is not associated with an increased rate of burglary, larceny, or motor vehicle theft once important structural predictors of crime are controlled for.

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Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

Stansfield

Akins

Rumbaut

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Sociological Perspectives

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“…Glick revealed the complexity of these issues by reminding us that the process of building these transnational spaces is occurring during a time of heightened nationalism. Anti-immigration sentiments and nativism, although not new in the US, are again making their way into state initiatives, immigration reform policies, as well as individual attitudes and public opinion (Mahler, 1995;Sanchez, 1999;Higham, 1999;Johnson et al, 1999). This has become particularly true in the aftermath of the disaster in New York, where calls for stricter enforcement of immigration regulations rang out amid ampli®ed demonstrations of national unity and loyalty.…”

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Situating Fijian transmigrants: towards racialised transnational social spaces of the undocumented

Scott

2003

International Journal of Population Geography

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As global interconnections have increased in our current era, many social scientists are placing added emphasis on immigration studies and rethinking migration processes. This paper offers a preliminary response to the call for more empirical, but theoretically grounded, work on`transnationalism' and transmigration'. It considers the case of indigenous Fijians, a growing but small population of largely undocumented immigrants to the United States. I situate and de®ne Fijians as transmigrants by underscoring the important meso-level links, including migration networks and social capital, which serve to build and maintain relationships between immigrants, their fellow immigrants, and their kin left behind in Fiji. Additionally, while I contend that Fijian transmigrants are contributing to the formation of transnational bridges and constructing multiple, but connected, localities in both Fiji and the US, I argue that because immigrant Fijians have yet to form staunch social and symbolic ties within the US, they have not emerged into transnational communities. The Fijian case, along with other groups of undocumented transmigrants, also raises questions about the nature and de®nition of transnational social spaces, since there has been little discussion that identi®es or legitimises racialised transnational social spaces speci®cally organised and occupied by undocumented transmigrants.

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“…Immigration policy affected the supply of immigrant labor in the U.S by increasing it dramatically. The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 and the subsequent Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 revived mass immigration in the U.S. (Briggs 1984(Briggs , 1996Portes 1999;Johnson, Farrell, and Guinn 1997). These policies also altered the origin and characteristics of immigrants.…”

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Employer Recruitment and Hispanic Labor Migration: North Carolina Urban Areas at the End of the Millennium

Johnson–Webb

2002

The Professional Geographer

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The North Carolina Hispanic population has grown at a rapid pace in recent years. Before 1980, the majority of Hispanics in North Carolina were engaged primarily in migrant agricultural work. Hispanics who are part of the new influx are arriving in urban areas and are working at nonagricultural pursuits. Previous research and anecdotal evidence suggest that Hispanic newcomers come from other U.S. jurisdictions and from abroad. Labor migration occurs in response to demand for labor, and labor demand is meditated by employers’ preferences and hiring practices. However, focusing solely on employer demand for labor ignores the role of past U.S. immigration policy and the large growth in services employment in the Sunbelt that have fueled the Hispanic in–migration. This research project explored the attitudes and recruiting behavior of employers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. A newspaper content analysis was undertaken, and interviews were conducted with selected intermediaries and a group of employers. Qualitative analysis of the data collected revealed that these employers utilize the social networks of their immigrant Hispanic employees to recruit new workers. They also use a variety of other recruiting methods to recruit Hispanics both locally and from abroad. If this practice is widespread, it may be fueling the influx of Hispanic immigrants to North Carolina. Employers interviewed extolled the work ethic of Hispanic workers and often bypassed native–born workers, whom they felt were inferior employees. These findings have ramifications for future immigration policy and for the success of welfare–to–work programs. Employer demand for labor is one factor that must be considered when formulating new immigration policy.

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Immigration Reform and the Browning of America: Tensions, Conflicts and Community Instability in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Cited by 39 publications

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Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

Assessing the Effects of Recent Immigration on Serious Property Crime in Austin, Texas

Situating Fijian transmigrants: towards racialised transnational social spaces of the undocumented

Employer Recruitment and Hispanic Labor Migration: North Carolina Urban Areas at the End of the Millennium

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