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Replicates prior research into the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants using a dataset that controls for potential biases stemming from selective emigration, omitted variables, and the mismeasurement of key constructs. It finds that English proficiency rises with exposure to U.S. society and that a pattern exists in language assimilation among Mexican migrants to the United States. (GR)

Discusses polarization among immigration researchers and attempts to reconcile the issues of acculturation and assimilation with ethnic retention. Two arguments to help prevent polarization are examined: that acculturation and accommodation occur without assimilation; and that researchers have studied different generations of immigrants and have approached their research with "outsider" and "insider" values. (GR)

Examines the differences in the reception given to immigrant racial minorities in the post-war years in Britain and Canada. Suggests that differences in the institutional structures of immigration of the two countries have resulted in different climates of interracial competition. (FMW)

This article presents abstracts of books and research papers. The book "The Future of Cultural Minorities," by A. Alcock is a collection of essays uses a multidisciplinary approach to illuminate the conflicts in majority-minority as well as interminority relations. Examining a wide range of minority peoples-the Indian tribes of Peru, the French-Canadians, Israeli Arabs, the Swedes in Finland, the Bretons in France and the Tamils of Sri Lanka, the contributors analyze the current status and future prospects of non-dominant groups in multicultural states from a variety of perspectives such as the political, sociological, economic, linguistic, constitutional, and educational. The research paper "Ethnic Group Membership Among Houston's Greek-Americans," by D.M. Collins has been assumed that the loss of culturally distinct elements is the harbinger of an ethnic group's eventual assimilation. However, this may not occur if the group remains structurally separate. This paper examines boundaries of the Greek community of Houston, giving attention to those aspects of Greekness recognized by its members as diagnostic of membership. Three requirements for membership were found such as social participation in the community, being of Greek blood and membership in the Greek Orthodox Church.

The article presents abstracts of various papers related to migration that were published in several periodicals. One of the papers discussed is "Social Assimilation Among American Catholic National-Origin Groups,"by R.D. Alba. The current resurgence of interest in white ethnicity largely has taken the form of asserting the continued vitality of ethnic communities. Current scholars well-known distinction between acculturation and social or structural assimilation, acknowledge the great extent of acculturation but maintain that, nonetheless, social assimilation has not taken place. This paper, using data about Catholic national-origin groups in the early 1960s, finds little support for these present assertions of ethnic vitality. Another paper discussed is "Law and Migration in the Sudan 1900 to 1977," by G.A. Balamoan. This study examines the role and consequences of government policies in determining the scale of international immigration and the ethnic composition of the Sudan. It describes how a small group of British Imperial Administrators laid down and implemented a series of policy interventions between 1899 and 1956 which facilitated the immigration and settlement of many millions of West African immigrants in the Sudan. While this immigration was caused in part by other pull and also by push factors, West African immigration during this period can be construed as serving the purposes of the British Imperial Government in the Sudan.

The article presents abstracts of various papers related to migration that are published in several periodicals. One of the papers discussed is "The Great Escape: Women and Migration in the Aveyron," by S.C. Rogers. This paper illustrates the value of research in the study of women and migration as an examination of the strategical and structural aspects of the migration process through the description of a rural-urban migratory situation in which women initiated the migratory process. The author examines the reason for this migration and the impact of the migration on the social organization of the sending community. This paper was written in response and refutation to an article by Anthony Leeds in the Anthropological. Another paper discussed is "Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas," by J.A. Armstrong. Using an exchange model, this paper examines two ethnic groups, mobilized and proletarian diasporas, in a broad range of modernizing politics. The salient dimensions of myth, communications networks, and, role differentiation permit one to distinguish these groups analytically over a long time period, and to subdivide the mobilized diasporas into archetypal diasporas and situational diasporas. The latter are politically detached elements of a great society, whereas the homeland of the archetypal diaspora is symbolically significant as a major component of the diaspora's sacral myth.

This article presents information regarding the papers on international migration. One of the papers is joint Turkish-Dutch research project which examines the social and economic effects of international labor migration, on both the migrants and those they left behind, in an underdeveloped region in Central Anatolia. another paper says that settlement work in Minneapolis followed the national pattern of playing down the ethnic differences of its recipients in an effort to bring about neighborhood and national unity, Americanization. The problem for the 1970's is the converse emphasis and retention of ethnic identity. It examines the relationship between type of neighborhood, squatter settlement or slum, and migrant attitudes and behavior. It finds "moderate support" for the theory that settlements provide, in some measure, more satisfaction and impetus to advance than do the slums. Rent-free housing and the chance to invest in home improvements are "to some degree responsible" for the relatively better position of the settlement inhabitant.

The article presents information on various papers related to migration, published in different journals. One of the papers titled "Group Cohesiveness, Ethnic Organization, and Poverty," gives a selective tour of some experiments and field studies of group cohesiveness, and of the effects of ethnic and religious group cohesiveness and organization in current and historic populations. Another paper "Urban Racial Minorities and Immigrant Groups: Some Economic Comparisons," explains differences in economic performance to six racially distinctive minorities. It is found that the performance of these minorities does not conform well to the immigrant model. The paper titled "A Survey of the Effects of Contact Between European and Maori in the Foveau Strait Region," presents a study of post-contact culture change in a specific part of the South Island between 1773-1850. The contact was due to a mutual interest in trading commodities, it is suggested. In due course, assimilation of economic practices led to a series of coherent changes in the social, technological and economic aspects of the Maori socio-cultural system, which can be documented historically.

The article presents abstracts of various papers related to various countries of the world that were published in several periodicals. One of the papers discussed is "International Migration and Social Mobility: An Australian Case Study," R.T. Appleyard. This case study emphasizes the differential expectations and short-run achievements of two ethnic groups in Australia's immigration program by reporting the findings of two major research projects on emigration from Europe to Australia: British assisted families in 1959 and Greek single workers in 1965. Both projects were longitudinal in type, interviews with sampled emigrants before the departure for Australia probed their approach to the emigration threshold, how long they stayed there, what finally decided them to step across it, their socio-economic background and their expectations and knowledge of Australia. Another paper discussed is "Factors Related to Immigrant Assimilation: Pre-Migration Traits," by Jerold Heiss. Using Italian immigrants in Australia, an attempt is made to test the hypotheses: Pre-migration traits are associated with later assimilation because they affect the subjects' early post-migration opportunities, motivation and reward for learning the new culture. The data indicate that a number of the pre-migration traits are related to assimilation, but the factors mentioned do not seem to be the intervening variables.

This paper examines the role of identification to home and host cultures on the pursuit of higher educations for individuals with immigrant backgrounds. Identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on strength of identification to both ethnic background cultures and the majority culture. Results indicate that integrated men that identify with both the majority and the background culture are associated with higher probabilities of completed tertiary educations than men that identify only with the majority culture as well as men with weak affiliations to both background and majority cultures. These results hold despite controls for early education outcomes and socioeconomic status. No systematic differences in higher educational attainment by identity are found for women once differences in early education are accounted for. These results put into question the premise of oppositional identities, i.e., a trade-off between ethnic identity and higher educational achievement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children of immigrants come from diverse backgrounds and enter school with different family migration experiences and resources. This paper addresses two basic questions: (1) to what extent does generation status exert an independent effect on early school performance net of race/panethnicity, language proficiency, and the family resources available to children as they enter formal schooling? and (2) to what extent do these broad conceptualizations of children in immigrant families mask variation by national origins? We take advantage of longitudinal data on a kindergarten cohort from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine children from diverse backgrounds. Considerable variation in academic performance persists across racial/panethnic groups as well as by country-of-origin background and linguistic ability even when adjusting for family background, resources, and previous academic performance. We find some intriguing evidence of early “segmentation” among children from various groups, suggesting some convergence within race and ethnicity for some children. However, this conclusion should not be overstated, because the results also point to the great diversity by national origins that are masked by reliance on racial/panethnic groupings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the network behavior of ethnic Germans while comparing differences in the attachments to relatives and friends across sending regions. This paper also examines whether migration networks are used by migrants when they reach West Germany. Furthermore, the determinants of integration of migrants in an existing network during the first years after immigration are analyzed. According to the human capital theory of migration, the probability of migration should decrease with age and increase with education, reflecting the smaller expected lifetime gain from moving for older people and the higher ability to collect and process information about the destination country by better educated individuals. The analysis demonstrates that the network behavior of ethnic Germans can be explained by observable characteristics. Two crucial variables were investigated, namely the connections to friends from the same country of origin that are East Germans. These connections strongly decline with duration of residence and presence in rural areas. Older people more likely to settle close to friends or relatives at the time of immigration. Population density increases, education, length of stay in a reception camp and per capita government expenditures decreases the likelihood of such settlement.

This article discusses various matters on migration. The Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Europe workshop was organized by the European Consortium for Political Research and was held at the Leyden University, The Netherlands, on April 2 to 8, 1993. This workshop explores the factors which constrain or facilitate the participation of ethnic minorities in the political process and the extent to which such participation has furthered or diluted the pursuit of ethnically-based interests. Meanwhile, the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association: Philadelphia was held April 16 to 17, 1993. It included the following papers: The American Catholic Response to Recent Immigration, by M. L. Sullivan; Ybor City Latins and the Church, by M. J. McNally; and Puerto Ricans and the Archdiocesan of Chicago, 1963-1970, by T. Kelliher. In other matters, The Forum for Researchers on Islam in Europe was established to encourage the development of information and interdisciplinary research on Islam and Muslim populations in Europe. It foresees a publication of a newsletter, directory of members, publication of an international bibliography in 1993, a symposium in 1994, and an international conference in 1995.

Approximately 1.8 million Koreans are settled in China and some 700,000 Koreans are located in Japan. The Korean minorities in two neighboring Asian countries make an interesting contrast in adjustment and ethnicity. Whereas the Koreans in China have maintained high levels of ethnic autonomy and positive ethnic identity, the Korean Japanese have lost much of their cultural repertoire and have suffered from negative ethnic identity. This paper provides a comparative analysis, explaining why the Koreans in two countries have made the different adjustments. It focuses on the basic differences in minority policy between China and Japan, the difference in the context of migration, the existence or absence of a territorial base, and the differential levels of influence from Korea. This comparative analysis is theoretically valuable because it has demonstrated that the physical and cultural differences between the majority group and a minority group are not necessary conditions for prejudice and discrimination against the minority group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents several news related to migration, published in the "The International Newsletter on Migration." The Fourth Seminar on Adaptation and Integration of Permanent Immigrants was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, from May 8 to 11, under the auspices of ICEM. Ten governments were represented. The issues discussed were adaptation and integration of migrant and refugee children and the maintenance of links with the country of origin by migrants. The International Political Science Association held a Roundtable on Politics and Ethnicity, between March 26 and 28 1979 at St. Anthony's College, Oxford, England. About 25 invited participants and additional discussants participated. The Canadian Population Society meetings were held on June 1 and 2, 1979 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Of those papers on the program, the following dealt with migration: "Emigration, Immigration Levels and Canadian Population Growth, by Ivan Timonin," and Chris Taylor; "International Review Group Findings on International Migration", by Carmen Miro; "Issues in Land Settlement: The Amazon Case in Brazil," by Robert Skillings.

The article presents several abstracts on the issue of migration and ethnicity. One of the abstract refers to a study which demonstrates the existence of distinct subsystems within a working class, Italian American neighborhood. In addition to a traditional working class orientation, there will also be a mobile middle class orientation as well as an "inconsistent" deviant subsystem. The study shows to what extent boys with similar values and behavior styles come from similar family types and peer groups. Another paper calls attention to an invisible community, Latin American Jews. It suggests fruitful research areas concerning this community and stresses the need for research now. Problems that researchers may encounter concerning this little investigated group are also explored. H. Troper in his article analyzes the current history curriculum changes in Ontario's public school in order to see whether recent major shifts reflect changes in the direction of the Canadian political socialization process.

This paper is an attempt to construct an index of community characteristics of the Chaldean Iraqi-Americans residing in Metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, by suggesting that an ethnic occupation, a high degree of intermarriage within the ethnic group, and geographical proximity, might serve to unite the Chaldean community as effectively as ethnic associations united the communities in Raymond Breton's study. These three variables are found to be intercorrelated and predictive of the general cultural behavior of the Chaldean community as well as of their values, social interaction patterns, and certain phases of general culture. This has several consequences for ethnic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the distributional and social components of Israeli land settlement policy implementation. A stochastic model is then employed to construct a probabilistic migration model to project the population of 13 settlement types and data is presented to show the effect of internal migration on the distribution patterns of the major ethnic groups across settlement types and on the changing ethnic composition within settlement types. The analysis demonstrates that internal migration, in the absence of other components of growth, has the potential for being a crucial factor in altering the size and ethnic composition of the settlements structure of the country. Implications of projected trends are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents various abstracts related to migration and ethnicity. Some of these are as: "Chicanos, Universities and Academic Colonialism," by C.H. Arce; "Spanish Galician Migrant Life-Histories and Social Change," by H.C. Buechier; "Industrial Resources and Ethnic Mobility: An Application of Ecological Theory," by B.S. Denich; "Ethnography of Migration: Breaking out of the Bi-Polar Myth," by D. Uxxell; "Urban Adaptation Among Peruvian Migrants," by S.B. Lobo; "Wong, B., "Ethnicity and Adaptive Strategies of the Chinese in New York," by B. Wong et al. In the paper, "A Causal Model on the Alienation of Chinese-Americans," by W.H. Kuo, two multifaceted concepts- immigrant status and minority--have been decomposed into their respective sub concepts. Using data gathered from a sample of Chinese-Americans in Washington D.C., a causal model was constructed which examines the relationships between the sub concept of immigrant and minority status and alienation.

The article presents information on various meetings and conferences that would be organized by various organizations as published in the periodical "The International Newsletter on Migration." The American Italian Historical Association in cooperation with the Canadian-Italian Historical Association has selected as the topic for their 1977 meeting "The Italian Immigrant Woman in North America." The Conference will explore backgrounds before immigration, as well as roles after settlement in North America and comparisons with other ethnic groups. Persons wishing to suggest papers should include an outline of the material to be covered and an abstract giving the thesis. Suggestions should be sent to the Center for Migration Studies by September 1, 1976. The XVIII General Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population will be held in Mexico City, Mexico from August 8 to August 13, 1977. Plenary sessions will focus on "Population and Socio-Economic Development" and "Human Rights, Ideology and Population Policies." Three formal sessions are being organized around the topic of "Migration and Urbanization."

The article discusses doctoral dissertations dealing with Italian immigrants and their acculturation in the United States. Of the 156 Dissertations 43 have been published, most of the others are available in microfilm or in Xerox copies from Dissertation Abstracts. Thirty-nine were written by halo-Americans. Fifteen different disciplines are represented, ranging from Anthropology to Theatre, although the majority are in History, Sociology, and Education. During the period 1908-1924 only 6 dissertations were written, the first at Yale in 1908 and the second at Harvard in 1909. The information given for each dissertation is: author's name, title of dissertation, university and date of degree, volume and page of Dissertation Abstracts where the abstract of the dissertation is found and the order number of the dissertation. Some of the research papers discussed are "The Ethnic Factor in American Catholicism: An Analysis of Inter-Ethnic Marriage and Religious Involvement"; "The Missionary, An Agent of Cultural Diffusion"; "A Comparative Study of the Mental Capacity of Children of Foreign Parentage."

The article discusses the lack of data regarding Hispanic immigrants in the United States and presents information on sources to correct that. Up-to-date research information regarding Spanish ethnic group is a problem for social science study. Papers published by the American Ethnological Society has helped correct the lack, specially the 1968 "Proceedings" periodical that addresses Spanish speakers in the country. The drawbacks of carrying out ethnological studies without carefully taken and stratified samples are elucidated. Several examples of research regarding the subject are also presented.

The article presents information on various research papers related to migration of ethnic groups, published in an earlier issue of the journal "International Migration Review". "Political Alignment and Religious Attitudes within the Italian Immigration to the Metallurgical Districts of Lorraine," by Serge Bonnet draws attention to the correlation, hitherto unnoticed, between the votes for the communist party and the electors of Italian origin of the Briey arrondissement. "Emigration from the Polish Territories under German Rule, 1815-1914," by Stanislaw Borowski, discusses migration and consequent increase or decrease of population in contemporary Polish territories. "Immigration Appeals: The Long Uncertain Wait," outlines the most important aspects of the British Immigration and gives an account of the achievements of a number of voluntary organizations in trying to ensure that it has some teeth. "Immigrants and the Youth Service: Eighteen Months After the Hunt Report" by Bryan Hartley describes how and why, the Youth Service in England has failed to adopt successfully to many of the recommendations of the Hunt Report of 1967.

The article discusses one of the neglected concept of American history, that is, ethnicity. The resurgence of ethnic consciousness springs from the Black revolution, which seems to have caused a revivth in the consciousness of other groups. Ethnicity was a forgotten dimension of American history, and only tangentially, if at all, was it considered in history courses. Two reasons are commonly given for the dearth of studies in ethnicity, the language barrier and the lack of records. Language is a difficulty, but with the realization of the importance of the problem and a real interest in it the obstacle can be overcome. As for the records, they are actually more than abundant. Immigrant groups were not so illiterate that they left no records of their new life in the New World. In fact by 1910 more than one thousand ethnic papers were printed in the States. It is unfortunate, however, that American libraries and archives showed no interest up to the present in collecting material pertaining to different ethnic groups. Another reason for the lack of studies on ethnicity is to be found in the social characteristics of scholars. Many signs reveal that a new tide of ethnic studies is at hand. The first sign is the growing interest of publishers in studies dealing with ethnic problems. Second, new scholarship efforts are growing in the universities.

The A.I.C.C. Seminar did not specifically address itself to the Puerto Ricans and so the reader may ask what is the relevance of the Seminar to this particular group of newcomers? Why has the summary of its proceedings been included in an issue of the Review which was written before he seminar took place and which is allegedly dedicated to Puerto Ricans' experiences and prospects? Simply stated, the relevance of the Seminar for this group of newcomers rests with: 1. its repeated emphasis on power as opposed to ethnic culture in the analysis of inter-group relations in the city, an emphasis which echoes the theme of Joseph P. Fitzpatrick's position paper, "Puerto Ricans in Perspective"; 2. its sharp focus on groups' needs of a nexus of institutions to insure their proper power position, a focus reminiscent of the Puerto Rican Conference mentioned in Clarence Senior's article, "The Puerto Ricans in New York: A Progress Note"; 3. its statements of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, which has the potential to vastly affect the Puerto Ricans; 4. its call for new services for newcomers, services which will revolve around community organization and maximal participation of the newcomers themselves in programmatic efforts to ameliorate their position. This call is, in our opinion, to be sounded by the Puerto Ricans, as well as other ethno-racial groups, if their progress on the mainland is to continue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on various research papers discussed in different journals. The research paper "Education of the Non-Russian Peoples in the USSR, 1917-1967: An Essay," seeks to evaluate Soviet educational policy toward the non-Russian peoples that together make up nearly one half of the total population of the Soviet Union. In comparison with the tsarist rule, national discrimination has been shifted from primary and secondary school to higher education. The Soviet educational system helps to keep the major languages alive and thus contributes to ethnic identification. Another article "Internal Migration in Russia in the Late Nineteenth Century," describes the magnitude and direction of the appreciable internal migration that occurred in Russia during the last decades of the nineteenth century. It demonstrates that differences in income were related to internal migration. It also provides insights into the migration processes in Russia by investigating the influence of selected socioeconomic variables on migration.

The article presents information on conferences and other events on migration. It is reported that the Tenth Annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy, sponsored by the Center for Migration Studies of New York, will be held in Washington, D.C. during March 26-27, 1987. The conference titled "U.S. Bureau of the Census: Third Annual Research Conference (ARC III)," will be held in Washington, D.C., in March 1987. The theme of ARC III will be improving the quality of survey results. Papers may address methodology, empirical studies, or relevant issues. Further, it is reported that the History Committee of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission and the University of Illinois Press announce a new series in immigrant and ethnic history. Manuscripts treating any aspect of the American immigration experience will be eligible, including the history of immigration to and immigrant and ethnic groups in the United States and comparative studies of immigration as an international phenomenon.

The article presents information on various research papers from Europe published in an earlier issue of the journal "International Migration Review". "Family Planning Among Different Ethnic Groups," by R.E.D. Simpson. In this extract, from his much longer report "A Medico-Social Study of a Group Practice with a High Proportion of Immigrants," the author describes the increasing use made of family planning in his practice in Bristol, England. "France's Portuguese Workers," by Marie-Claire Viguer is based on Statistics from the Ministry of Social Affairs and the National Immigration Office and on results of investigations made at Toulouse at the Sociology of Labor Center by French and Portuguese research workers.

The article presents information on various research papers related to migration of ethnic groups, published in an earlier issue of the journal "International Migration Review". "Religious Problems of Migrants," by H.G. Aerts is concerned with the problems brought about by the fact that, as a consequence of the large-scale migration, a great many religious traditions are now represented in Australia. "Professional on the Move," by R. W. Fisher is a report on emigration of skilled, trained workers from developing countries. "China's Minority Nationalities in the Cultural Revolution" reconsiders the question of nationalities within the cultural revolution. It examines divergent opinions within the government regarding immediate and total assimilation. "Immigration and Factionalism: An Analysis of Factions in Rural Israeli Communities of Immigrants," by Moshe Shokeid presents some findings of a research project in Israel which tried to reconstruct and analyze the history and conditions under which factions first emerged and then disappeared in two newly created communities of immigrants in the course of ten years.

The article presents information on various papers related to migration in the Soviet Union, published in different journals. One of the papers titled "Cultural Development and Integration of Non-Russian Populations in the Soviet Union," reports that on the economic level, the promotion of ethnic groups demands uniform methods and criteria for all countries, while on the cultural level a politics of differentiation imposes itself. It seems that, on this level, certain results were obtained proportionally to the degree in which people in a feudal state utilize machines and are employed in Kolkhozes or in enterprises. In another paper "Nationalities in the Light of the Soviet Census," the statistic preparation of the 1970 Census reveals the politics of nationalities of the Soviet Union. It is certain, for instance, that the ethnic groups hardly mentioned are not the people more favored by the Central Government. The paper titled "La creation de non-nations," questions policies of the Soviet government toward national minorities.

The article presents information on various research papers related to migration of ethnic groups, published in an earlier issue of the journal "International Migration Review". "Hansen's Law of 'Third-Generation Return' and the Study of American Religio-Ethnic Groups," by E.I. Bender and G. Kagiwada takes note of the divergences as well as the convergences in a critical body of speculation, theory and empirical research on religio-ethnic patterns of identification, acculturation and assimilation. "L'integrazione socio-culturale degli immigrati," by Elio Caranti illustrates the criteria followed in the formulation of the program carried out by the Italian Committee for the Study of Population Problems in 1966. It also gives the first results of theoretical and field research concerning the immigrants' socio-cultural integration which reveals that the fundamental constant on migrations is the subjective stimulus that press an individual or a large group of individuals to find better labor conditions and a higher standard of living. "Crime and Migration," by Franco Ferracuti. In the United States the criminality of migrant workers was one of the most popular areas of study in criminology in the first half of the century. In this study, it is shown that the theory which attributed the increase in crime rates to migration was untenable.

The article discusses various research papers published in the previous issue of the journal " International Migration Review". "A note on the Surnames of Immigrant Officials in Nara Japan," by Cornelius J. Kiley. The use of names to indicate an ascribed alien status and its implications are explored for seventh and eighth century Japan. "Professional Immigrants: Do They Move On?," by B. S. Chansarkar. Semi and unskilled migrant workers in Britain are unlikely to return to their countries of origin. This article reviews the situation with regard to skilled and professional migrants and suggests that they return home or move on to other countries. "Racial Discrimination and White-collar Workers in Britain," by R. Jowell and P. Prescott-Clarke, collects data on job discrimination against Asian immigrants, West Indians and Cypriots in white-collar employment within four areas of high immigrant concentration: Nottingham-Derby-Leicester, Reading- Windsor-Slough, Birmingham-Wolver-hampton and Greater London.

We use survey data for 1999 to evaluate how well the spatial assimilation model characterizes the generational patterns in housing conditions for racial/ethnic groups in New York City. Focusing on home ownership, crowding, and housing quality, bivariate analyses reveal that housing conditions improve across generations, but mainly for whites and other Hispanics. Among blacks, we find patterns of generational decline in housing conditions and socioeconomic status. Multivariate models reveal significant generational improvements among whites and Puerto Ricans with respect to home ownership and among whites, blacks, and other Hispanics, with respect to crowding. However, notable generational declines are evident for blacks in home ownership and housing quality. Broad support for spatial assimilation theory is evident in the associations of socioeconomic status with housing conditions, but the results for blacks raise questions about the overall primacy of the spatial assimilation model., There is a long tradition of research into the locational attainment process among racial and ethnic groups. The vast majority of studies in the field use the spatial assimilation model [...]