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2. INTERNATIONAL RETIREMENT MIGRATION FOR JAPANESE RETIREES MOTIVATIONAL PUSH-PULL FACTORS AND BEHAVIORAL PHENOMENA TOWARDS CULTURAL ASSIMILATION.
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Rosli, Siti Hajar Binti
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SOCIAL attitudes ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,ACCULTURATION ,SOCIAL integration ,SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology) ,LANGUAGE acquisition ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
This article examines push and pull factors for Japanese retirees in Thailand as part of international retirement migration (IRM). Additionally, it studies levels of social integration, subjective wellbeing, life satisfaction, cultural assimilation and factors that hinder it. It examines the moderating and mediating effect of the relationship between independent and dependent variables. A quantitative method using a questionnaire was used and found that economic, health and social factors are significant in influencing retirees' push and pull motivations. As for social integration, subjective well-being, life satisfaction and cultural assimilation, there is positive feedback from retirees. Factors that hinder cultural assimilation are language barriers and cultural differences. The results show a positive and strong association between language acquisition and social integration, between social integration and cultural assimilation, and between attitudes and cultural assimilation. There is a moderating effect between language acquisition and cultural assimilation. The results also show that there is no mediating effect for local support on the relationship between attitudes and social integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. How do people without migration background experience and impact today's superdiverse cities?
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Crul, Maurice, Lelie, Frans, Keskiner, Elif, Michon, Laure, and Waldring, Ismintha
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EMIGRATION & immigration , *IMMIGRANTS , *SOCIAL integration , *MULTICULTURALISM , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
For over forty years researchers have studied the integration of migrants and their descendants in Western European cities. In the meantime, many of these cities have become majority minority cities, hence, cities in which an ethnic numerical majority no longer exists. This raises the question how the old majority group, the people of native descent, participates in and relates to these superdiverse cities. In this special issue, we raise long overdue questions about some of the inherent problems of mainstream theoretical frameworks explaining integration and assimilation outcomes. While primarily focusing on people with a migration background, these frameworks usually omit the attitudes and practices of people without migration background that impact the societal climate in which people with migration background live and work. In this introductory article we discuss the literature and theoretical notions about the experiences and the impact people without migration background have on societal outcomes in superdiverse cities. We will further introduce the articles in this special issue and propose a research agenda for studying people without migration background in majority minority cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background.
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Crul, Maurice, Lelie, Frans, and Song, Miri
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INTERMARRIAGE , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *MULTICULTURALISM , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *ETHNIC relations - Abstract
Of the BaM respondents in a relation, no less than a quarter is in a mixed union. We still know very little about the non-migrant partner in unions with a partner with a migration background, including their propensity to adopt the cultural practices of their partner, and their propensity to reach out and embrace ethnic diversity more generally. The growth of intimate relationships between people with and without a migration background in majority minority cities in Europe provides an opportunity to explore the attitudes and experiences of non-migrant individuals in interethnic unions, and what such unions may portend for the wider society. This article makes a critical contribution to the general debate on the assimilation paradigm, which predicts 'a whitening' of norms and practices in mixed unions. We will use the BaM data to investigate the potential bi-directional effect of being in a mixed union. Does a mixed union, as assimilation scholars argue, primarily have a whitening impact on the minority partner, or is there also a potential diversifying impact upon the other partner? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Intention and Perceived Control: International Migrants' Assimilation in China.
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Chen, Zhenxiang and Fan, Xiaoguang
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,IMMIGRANTS ,REGRESSION analysis ,SOCIAL networks - Abstract
Using the unique Survey of Foreigner Residents in China from 2018 to 2019, this study examines the assimilation of international migrants in China by considering how migrants' intention to assimilate and perceptions of local control affect their behavior, which in turn affects their assimilation outcomes. The main behavior upon which we focus on is the formation of a host social network. Regression analyses and formal mediation analyses are performed to explore how intention and perceived control serve as motivators or barriers that facilitate or restrict international migrants' acculturation and structural assimilation via host social network formation or other behaviors. Our results show that migrants' intention to assimilate has significant effects on their acculturation and structural assimilation outcomes via the establishment of a host social network and via other behaviors. As a result, it has a strong total impact on migrants' assimilation outcomes, as tested with a formal Sobel test. Migrants' perceptions of local control, in contrast, have negative direct effects on both acculturation and structural assimilation, but no significant indirect effects are identified, which suggests that perceived local control may not affect migrants' formation of a host social network but may influence other behaviors. From the Sobel test, we find no evidence of total effects from the perceptions of local control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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6. The Immigrant Sociologist: Paul Siu at Chicago.
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Eilbaum, Nicolás
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CHICAGO school of sociology , *SOCIAL theory , *SOCIOLOGICAL research , *LAUNDRY workers , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *ASSIMILATION of immigrants - Abstract
Paul Siu's dissertation on the experience of Chinese laundry workers in the United States is a hallmark study in the Chicago sociology of migration. Siu joined the Chicago sociology program in 1932, defended his dissertation in 1953, and had it published as a book in 1987. This article identifies Siu's key contributions and discusses the relationship between Siu's work and the Chicago sociology of migration. An immigrant himself, Siu offered an approach to migration that was closer to the migrants: an immediate and often intimate window into the subjective dimension of migration. While Siu's closeness to the migrants allowed him to collect the kind of firsthand data associated with Chicago sociology, it also revealed elements of the migrant experience that stretched the boundaries of Chicago's analytical framework. Siu's understanding of migration as temporary, in particular, departed from Chicago sociology's emphasis on immigrant assimilation. This article seeks to reexamine Siu's contribution and underline its value for current and future research on migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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7. Educational Assimilation of First-Generation and Second-Generation Immigrants in Germany.
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Gries, Thomas, Redlin, Margarete, and Zehra, Moonum
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ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,IMMIGRANTS ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,SECONDARY schools ,EDUCATIONAL mobility ,EDUCATIONAL background - Abstract
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984–2018, we analyze the intergenerational education mobility of immigrants in Germany by identifying the determinants of differences in educational stocks for first- and second-generation immigrants in comparison to individuals without a migration background. Our results show that on average, first-generation immigrants have fewer years of schooling than native-born Germans and have a disproportionate share of lower educational qualifications. This gap is strongly driven by age at immigration, with immigration age and education revealing a nonlinear relationship. While the gap is relatively small among individuals who migrate at a young age, integrating in the school system at secondary school age leads to large disadvantages. Examining the educational mobility of immigrants in Germany, we identify an inter-generational catch-up in education. The gap in education between immigrants and natives is reduced for the second generation. Finally, we find that country of origin differences can account for much of the education gap. While immigrants with an ethnic background closer to the German language and culture show the best education outcomes, immigrants from Turkey, Italy, and other southern European countries and especially the group of war refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other MENA countries, have the lowest educational attainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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8. Afrisc Meowle: Exploring Race in the Old English Exodus.
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DOCKRAY-MILLER, MARY
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EMIGRATION & immigration , *POPULATION geography , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *HUMANITIES - Abstract
An Afrisc meowle ("African woman") appears at the end of the Old English Exodus, a poem ostensibly celebrating religious freedom, migration, and divine justice. Amid the Hebrews' final celebration, the explicit inclusion of the Afrisc meowle's racial difference from the Israelites exposes the horror and violence of the aftermath of war; a focus on her also invites questions about the poem's early medieval audience and how that audience could have understood her, especially since she does not appear in the source text of the Hebrew Bible. The scant critical analysis of this remarkable figure tends to provide a brief exegetical explanation beforemoving into more secure critical territory. My analysis of the Afrisc meowle reveals the limitations of source study and exegetical criticism for Exodus and for the field of medieval studies; she thus serves as a case study for this deeper theoretical problem in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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9. Biden’s Election Year Border Order.
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Harrigan, Fiona
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IMMIGRANTS , *REFUGEES , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *POPULATION geography , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
The article discusses the impact on migrants, potentially pushing them into more dangerous crossing routes or into tent cities along the border. It also mentions the administration's sponsorship programs for refugees and migrants as successful initiatives that address the demand for safe immigration pathways and work opportunities.
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- 2024
10. Give Us Your Engineers, Your Entrepreneurs.
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Millman, Joel
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IMMIGRANTS ,VENEZUELANS ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,FOREIGN workers ,PROFESSIONAL employees ,GOVERNMENT revenue ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
The article reports on the migration of Venezuelans with advanced degrees to Panama since the collapse of Venezuela's petroleum industry in 2015. A study from the United Nation's (UN) International Organization for Migration shows the tax contribution of Venezuelans with legal residency in Panama in retail sales, property assessments and other fees. It identifies structural advances of Venezuelan migrants over migration episodes in terms of education, language and cultural assimilation.
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- 2023
11. Who wants to be Norwegian – who gets to be Norwegian? Identificational assimilation and non-recognition among immigrant origin youth in Norway.
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Friberg, Jon Horgen
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CHILDREN of immigrants , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *NATIONALISM , *ETHNICITY - Abstract
We explore identity formation among adolescents, using the first wave of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Norway (CILS-NOR). The results show that immigrant origin youth gradually adopt a stronger self-identity as Norwegians, regardless of regional origins and religious affiliation. However, while adolescents of European immigrant origin report that others see them as being even more "Norwegian" than they identify themselves, children of immigrants from Africa and Asia report that others see them as being far less "Norwegian" than how they identify themselves. Non-recognized national identity – the product of an asymmetrical relationship between self-identity and ascription – is most common among well-established minority groups, and we show that both ethno-racial origins and religious affiliation are major hurdles for acceptance. Ethnic identities associated with the parental homeland, which are closely related to religion, are more stable, and only very weakly related to the formation of a national identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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12. Immigrants' Religious Transmission in Southern Europe: Reaction or Assimilation? Evidence from Italy.
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Molteni, Francesco and Dimitriadis, Iraklis
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IMMIGRANTS ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,SOCIAL processes ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,CATHOLICS - Abstract
In recent decades, scholars have been increasingly interested in analysing immigrants' religiosity in Europe. In this article, we provide evidence about how the patterns of religious transmission are shaped by religious characteristics of both the origin and receiving contexts. We do so by focusing on Italy, which is both an almost homogeneously Catholic country and a fairly recent immigration destination, and by analysing three different dimensions of religiosity: service attendance, prayer and importance of religion. By relying on the "Social conditions and integration of foreign citizens" survey (ISTAT, 2011-2012), we fill an important theoretical and geographical gap by analysing differences in religiosity between parents and children. We claim that immigrant groups who share many characteristics with the natives tend to assimilate by adopting the same patterns of transmission (for example, Romanians in Italy). In contrast, immigrants who come from very different religious contexts, such as the Muslim Moroccan group, strongly react to this diversity by emphasising the transmission of their own religiosity. If, instead, immigrants come from a very secular country, such as Albania, they also tend to replicate this feature in the receiving countries, thus progressively weakening their religiosity and also their denominational differences. Overall, it is the interplay between origin and destination context which matters the most in shaping the patterns of religious transmission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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13. All Hands on Deck: The Sea as an Object to Rethink Migrations. An Introduction.
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SILVA, MARTA and SANTOS, YVETTE
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,SPACETIME ,NATIONALISM ,POPULATION geography ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
The article focuses on thematic dossier "All Hands on Deck: The Sea as an Object to Rethink Migrations" proposes an approach to different ways of understanding migratory movements through their presence at sea. It mentions polychromatic reading of the Human/Territory relationship as well as providing a reading of space and time. It also mentions migratory movements as a means of fulfilling a trajectory and processes of construction of national identities.
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- 2021
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14. Inhospitable landscapes: contemporary French horror cinema, immigration and identity.
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Haylett Bryan, Alice
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HORROR films , *FRENCH films , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *IDENTITY (Psychology) - Abstract
The rebirth of French horror cinema at the start of the twenty-first century coincided with a critical moment in the country's debates on immigration. The Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) called for cultural assimilation and integration from its immigrant population, but there was also a growing trend in the party towards a more hard-line approach. This article uses Jacques Derrida's writing on hospitality to propose that the politics of the UMP and questions of identity, immigration and assimilation are key to the renewal of French horror cinema in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It argues that the films Sheitan (Kim Chapiron, 2006), Frontière(s) (Xavier Gens, 2007) and La Meute (Franck Richard, 2010) represent the white French anxiety over the nation's political move towards the right (as opposed to a fear of the immigrant Other directly), reading these horror films as exhibiting the tension between tolerance and hospitality key to Derrida's writing. Therefore, this article proposes that the negative depiction of white rural communities, the inclusion of characters of immigrant descent and the emphasis on 'hosting' locations such as the hotel and the roadside café reveal a country working through its position as a host nation within Fortress Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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15. The Dominican Diaspora: From Quisqueya to Puerto Rico and Beyond.
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Büdenbender, Eva-Maria Suárez and Valentín-Márquez, Wilfredo
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EMIGRATION & immigration , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *COLONIZATION , *IMMIGRANTS , *DOMINICAN Americans - Abstract
The article discusses the case history of the migration among the Caribbean islands. Topics include the history of the socioeconomically driven migration of the Caribbean community; background, motivation in the linguistic effects of migration and language contact in Caribbean groups,, and structure of the case history including the Dominican migration to Puerto Rico and other locations such as the mainland U.S. and Europe.
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- 2021
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16. The transnational life course: an integrated and unified theoretical concept for migration research.
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Erlinghagen, Marcel
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EMIGRATION & immigration , *LIFE course approach , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *BORDER crossing - Abstract
Migration research developed significantly in the past decades. However, with the life course approach and the concept of transnational migration, there are still two different, as yet largely unconnected conceptual perspectives on migration. Both approaches have their merits but also their shortcomings. This paper tries to overcome these shortcomings by combining the advantages of both perspectives to suggest a unified theoretical concept of transnational life courses (TNLC). TNLC builds on the multidimensional understanding of transnational migration research that (potential) migrants live in multiple social and cultural spaces leading to parallel assimilation and dissimilation processes. This perspective is merged with the life course approach with its chronologically ordered understanding of causality relying on preceding determinants and subsequent outcomes in form of events and periods. Based on data provided by the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) some simple empirical analyses were conducted to illustrate the potential of the TNLC approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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17. Why We Have Forgotten About Refugee Adaptation and Why Studying It in the Global South is Critical.
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Çelik, Çetin
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EMIGRATION & immigration , *REFUGEES , *IMMIGRANTS , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *SOCIAL integration ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
This paper first critically assesses the sociology of immigration and refugee studies and demonstrates that they have long ignored refugee adaptation. Immigration studies have focused on the assimilation of labor immigrants and their descendants in the Global North. Refugee studies have developed largely as a depoliticized humanitarian field with attention to refugees in the Global South. The paper, then, reveals the differences between immigrants and refugees in terms of networks, demography, mode of incorporation, and perceptions and argues that these differences result in dissimilar adaptation pathways. The paper finally points out that investigating refugee adaptation in the Global South can significantly modify existing assimilation/integration theories because of the blurry configurations of racial, ethnic, social, cultural, and religious boundaries between refugees and host societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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18. Migration across developed countries: German immigrants in Sweden and the US.
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Haberfeld, Yitchak, Birgier, Debora Pricila, Lundh, Christer, and Elldér, Erik
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IMMIGRANTS , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *EMIGRATION & immigration ,GERMAN emigration & immigration ,UNITED States emigration & immigration - Abstract
The present study evaluates the interplay between the effects of host countries' characteristics and self‐selection patterns of immigrants from a highly developed country on their economic assimilation in other developed countries. The focus is on immigrants originated from Germany during 1990–2000 who migrated to Sweden and the US. The results show that almost all German immigrants reached full earnings assimilation with natives of similar observed attributes, and that the assimilation of highly educated Germans was better than that of the less educated. It was also found that the skilled immigrants were compensated for their human capital acquired in Germany. Finally, the better assimilation of German immigrants, especially the highly educated, took place in the US. This finding was probably the result of an interaction between the Germans' pattern of self‐selection and the US context of reception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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19. COVID-19, Europa und der Populismus.
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Manow, Philip
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COVID-19 pandemic ,EUROPEAN integration ,POPULISM ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
Will COVID-19 "kill populism" – by exposing its incapacity to govern, its inadequate rhetoric, its hostility towards scientific expertise, and its political short-termism? In order to address this question in the European context it is necessary to account for two broader contextual factors. Firstly, that Europe's recent crises – the European debt crisis of 2010 and the migration crisis of 2015 – overlap with the current crisis, both politically and economically. Secondly, that in Europe, populism in one country cannot be viewed as independent from populism in another. The article sets out to empirically map how (and why) populism has fared quite differently in different European countries and comes to a preliminary response to the "will it kill populism"- question: no, it will not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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20. Rejoinder: Durable Ethnicity's ethnic core, symbolic-consequential ethnicity and other concepts.
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Telles, Edward and Sue, Christina A.
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ETHNICITY , *MEXICAN Americans , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
The author comment from authors of book "Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core" on reviews. It mentions question of Mexican American ethnicity that will occupy future researchers for some time to come and additions to race/ethnicity and migration/assimilation literature and Mexican American/Latino sociology. It also mentions assumption that national and ethnic identities are incompatible.
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- 2020
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21. Work Trajectories of Female and Male Immigrants in Spain.
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Carrasco Carpio, Concepción, García‐Serrano, Carlos, and Hernanz, Virginia
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FOREIGN workers , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *EMIGRATION & immigration ,LABOR supply statistics ,SPANISH economy - Abstract
This article aims to examine in depth the work trajectories of individuals over time, in order to provide a wider perspective of the employment history of immigrants compared to native people, by gender and for more than one decade (2005–2017) in Spain. We use microdata (cohort and multivariate analysis) from the Labour Force Survey and carry out a comparison for three groups: the Spanish born in Spain, the Spanish born abroad, and the non‐Spanish born abroad. The results confirm that the non‐Spanish born‐abroad group is characterized by the existence of segmented assimilation. All foreigners suffered a loss in their work trajectories, since their employment rate in 2017 has as yet neither reached the level of the last years of the previous economic expansion nor the level of the previous cohorts at the same age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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22. MMIGRATION AND ASSIMILATION: Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution.
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ALESINA, ALBERTO and STANTCHEVA, STEFANIE
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,INCOME redistribution ,EQUALITY ,IMMIGRANTS ,WELFARE state - Abstract
The article examines various perceptions and attitudes toward the issue of immigration and assimilation and how these views shape preferences for income redistribution. Topics discussed include the issue of misperceptions and equality for immigrants, the association between race and poverty, and the representation of immigrants among the poor and their reliance on the welfare state.
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- 2020
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23. Discrimination and the Returns to Cultural Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration.
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ABRAMITZKY, RAN, BOUSTAN, LEAH, ERIKSSON, KATHERINE, and HAO, STEPHANIE
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RACE discrimination ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,UNITED States emigration & immigration ,OUTCOME assessment (Social services) ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
The article examines the incidence of race discrimination and cultural assimilation among a large sample of population whose parents immigrated to the U.S. during the Age of Mass Migration from Europe in 1850-1913. Topics discussed include incidence of discrimination based on foreign-sounding first names, the relationship between foreign-sounding names and adult economic outcomes, and the return to cultural assimilation.
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- 2020
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24. The other side of immigration in Prometeo Deportado ('Prometheus deported') and Vengo Volviendo ('Here and there').
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Medina, Manuel
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,CULTURAL adaptation ,DEHUMANIZATION ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,MOTION pictures ,ECUADORIANS - Abstract
This article focuses on two films – Prometeo Deportado ('Prometheus deported') directed by Fernando Mieles and Vengo Volviendo ('Here and there') directed by Isabel Rodas León and Gabriel Paez Hernandez – that relate to Ecuadorian emigration and immigration. Both cultural products call attention to the realities behind the traditional presumption that the economic benefit of living outside the Ecuadorian borders outweighs the human price most people must pay in return. Using a border studies theoretical framework, this article analyses concepts such as dehumanization and deterritorialization within the conversation about emigration, immigration, cultural adaptation and assimilation of Ecuadorians who venture abroad or dream of relocating outside of their country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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25. Migritude and Kala Pani Routes in Shumona Sinha's Assommons les pauvres (Let Us Strike Down the Poor).
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Mehta, Brinda J.
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,SUBJECTIVITY ,NARRATORS ,HISTORY of colonies ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
The term migritude was first coined by French theorist Jacques Chevrier to characterize "extracontinental" francophone sub-Saharan literatures that have their roots in negritude and immigration. Kenyan cultural artist Shailja Patel later expanded the term to include South Asian "migrants with attitude." This article further expands the current framings of migritude by linking it to the historical movement of kala pani , or nineteenth-century Indian indenture. The idea of kala pani migritude reveals an engagement with clandestine migration, identity, language, translation, and geography, both rooted in France and routed along treacherous seaways. Shumona Sinha's novel Assommons les pauvres also focuses on the experiences of the privileged immigrant narrator whose story is a core part of the novel. Sinha has the privilege to narrate the stories of the migrants for them in her coveted role as a translator. Her stories are mediated by her ambivalence toward the migrants, for whom she feels shame and disgust, and her own tentative attempts to assimilate Frenchness as a normative ideal. This article offers a contrapuntal reading of Sinha's novel through the lens of kala pani migritude to determine whether migrant subjectivity in a mediated narrative is an ultimately temporary, fleeting, or failed act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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26. Discursive strategies of othering: North Korean youth on a South Korean television show.
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Lee, Kathy, Choi, Sunyoung, and Min, Jee Won
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NORTH Korean refugees , *TELEVISION broadcasting , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *CULTURAL fusion , *EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
As the number of South Koreans, especially those in their 20s and 30s, in favor of unification with North Korea decreases, it is not surprising that younger generations feel a lack of closeness or familiarity with North Korean refugees in South Korea. Targeting South Korean adolescents' ambivalence toward unification and North Korean refugees is a talk show called Great Friends. Moderated by a South Korean host, Great Friends presents the experiences of a group of North Korean and South Korean youth. Given the current social climate surrounding North Korean refugees in South Korea, this study investigates how North Korean youth on this program are discursively constructed over the course of 17 episodes aired in 2015. Considering the unequal power relations between the host country and refugees, this study applies critical discourse analysis (CDA) to interpret how North Korean adolescents are presented to a South Korean audience. The analysis reveals the 'othering' of North Koreans through discourses of difference. Despite presenting North Koreans as friends to South Koreans, these discursive constructions create a dichotomy by positioning North Koreans as inferior to their southern counterparts. The findings contribute to rethinking how authorities promote the integration of North Koreans in South Korea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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27. Does Skin Tone Matter? Immigrant Mobility in the U.S. Labor Market.
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JooHee Han
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OCCUPATIONAL segregation ,LABOR market ,OCCUPATIONAL achievement ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,COUNTRY of origin (Immigrants) ,GREEN cards ,RACE ,HUMAN skin color - Abstract
A rich literature documents the negative association between a dark skin tone and many dimensions of U.S.-born Americans' life chances. Despite the importance of both skin tone and immigration in the American experience, few studies explore the effect of skin tone on immigrant incorporation, much less longitudinally. I analyze data from the new immigrant survey (NIS) 2003 to examine how skin tone is associated with occupational achievement at three time points: the last job held abroad, the first job held in the U.S. and the current job. While I find no association between dark skin tone and occupational status in the job held before immigration, there is a negative association at both time points after immigration to the U.S., net of human and social capital, race/ethnicity, country of origin, gender, and age. Dark-skinned immigrants experience steeper downward mobility at arrival to the U.S. but slower subsequent upward mobility relative to light-skinned immigrants. These findings shed light on multiple current literatures, including "segmented assimilation," cultural narratives of assimilation, and multidimensionality of race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
28. FROM THE EDITOR.
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Friesen, Aileen
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CULTURAL identity ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,MENNONITES ,CROSS-cultural differences ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
The article focuses on the theme of cultural identity and migration within the Mennonite community, exploring personal experiences and historical perspectives of the interaction between Kanadier and Russlaender Mennonites. Topics include the cultural differences between these groups, the impact of migration on family dynamics and community relationships, and the complexities of religious and cultural assimilation in new environments.
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- 2023
29. Underwog.
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Megalogenis, George
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ACCULTURATION ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,IMMIGRANTS ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Published
- 2020
30. Hispanics in the U.S. Labor Market: A Tale of Three Generations.
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Orrenius, Pia M. and Zavodny, Madeline
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IMMIGRANTS ,LABOR market ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,HISPANICIZATION - Abstract
Immigrants' descendants typically assimilate toward mainstream social and economic outcomes across generations. Hispanics in the United States are a possible exception to this pattern. Although there is a growing literature on intergenerational progress, or lack thereof, in education and earnings among Hispanics, there is little research on employment differences across immigrant generations. Using data from 1996 to 2017, this study reveals considerable differences in Hispanics' employment rates across immigrant generations. Hispanic immigrant men tend to have higher employment rates than non-Hispanic whites and second- and third-plus generation Hispanics. Hispanic immigrant women have much lower employment rates, but employment rates rise considerably in the second generation. Nonetheless, U.S.-born Hispanic women are less likely than non-Hispanic white women to work. The evidence thus suggests segmented assimilation, in which the descendants of Hispanic immigrants have worse outcomes across generations. While relatively low education levels do not appear to hamper Hispanic immigrants' employment, they play a key role in explaining low levels of employment among Hispanic immigrants' descendants. Race and selective ethnic attrition may also contribute to some of the patterns uncovered here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
31. The significance of things: Objects, emotions and cultural production in migrant women's return visits home.
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Christou, Anastasia and Janta, Hania
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EMIGRATION & immigration , *WOMEN migrant labor , *CULTURAL production , *CULTURAL industries , *SOCIOLOGICAL research , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
This article draws on qualitative research in Basel, Switzerland with highly skilled migrant women from various European nationalities employed in a number of professional sectors. It seeks to contribute to the literatures on the sociologies of migration and the sociologies of everyday life by intersecting the conceptual frame of 'affective habitus' with the phenomenology of material culture in unpacking how emotions triggered by objects shape settling practices in host societies. The analysis centres on pathways of cultural production as they unfold through memories, objects and experiential return visits. The authors find sociological depth in applying 'affective habitus' as the conceptual framing to examine how mediations of memory and emotions can extend understandings of how women migrants create agentic ways to settle in new host societies while making cultural accommodations. The conceptual terrain of 'affective habitus' is theorised through a phenomenological approach to gendered migrancy and cultural materiality in everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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32. Transnational Activities of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Hindering or Supporting Integration.
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Şimşek, Doğuş
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SYRIAN refugees , *SOCIAL integration , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *EMIGRATION & immigration ,SOCIAL conditions in Turkey - Abstract
This article focuses on transnational activities of Syrian refugees in Turkey examining the relationship between such activities and integration. The main research question addressed in this article is whether involvement in transnational activities hinders or supports the integration processes of Syrian refugees in Turkey, by drawing upon fieldwork in Istanbul, Ankara, Hatay and Gaziantep. I argue that Syrian refugees perceive integration as a survival mechanism and use transnational activities as a strategy for adapting to a new society, especially when they are faced with insecure legal status and a lack of access to rights in the receiving country. This study contributes to the literature on refugee transnationalism and integration by focusing on the refugees' perceptions of on integration processes and addressing the question of survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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33. Immigration restrictions and second-generation cultural assimilation: theory and quasi-experimental evidence.
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Galli, Fausto and Russo, Giuseppe
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ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *CULTURAL transmission , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *IMMIGRATION law , *SOCIAL stratification , *INTERGENERATIONAL relations , *CHILDREN of immigrants ,GERMAN emigration & immigration - Abstract
We study the effects of immigration restrictions on the cultural assimilation of second-generation migrants. In our theoretical model, when mobility is free, individuals with a stronger taste for their native culture migrate temporarily. When immigration is restricted, however, these individuals are incentivized to relocate permanently. Permanent emigrants procreate in the destination country and convey their cultural traits to the second generation, who will therefore find assimilation harder. We test this prediction by using the 1973 immigration ban in Germany (Anwerbestopp) as a quasi-experiment. Since the ban only concerned immigrants from countries outside the European Economic Community, they act as a treatment group. According to our estimates, the Anwerbestopp has reduced the cultural assimilation of the second generation. This result demonstrated robustness to several checks. We conclude that restrictive immigration policies may have the unintended consequence of delaying the intergenerational process of cultural assimilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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34. Migration policy trends in OECD countries.
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Helbling, Marc and Kalkum, Dorina
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IMMIGRATION policy , *EUROPEANIZATION , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
This article investigates whether migration policies in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have become more liberal or restrictive over the last decades and whether or not these policies have converged, especially among European Union (EU) countries. Owing to a lack of data, the few existing studies in this field have mostly focused on policy outcome data. Various and sometimes contradicting statements have therefore largely remained untested. This article analyses data from the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) project that includes measures for different policy fields between 1980 and 2010 in all OECD states. We find that the conditions and criteria for entering and staying in a country have become more liberal. At the same time, however, we observe that more restrictive control mechanisms have been put in place. We also find that there is a general convergence trend in the migration policy field that varies in intensity, however, across policy fields. We only partially observe any Europeanization effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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35. Australian public opinion on asylum.
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Markus, Andrew and Arunachalam, Dharmalingam
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GOVERNMENT policy on political refugees , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *POPULATION geography , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *IMMIGRATION law - Abstract
Australia has a policy of deterring attempts by asylum seekers to reach the country by boat. In 2001 and again in 2013 a policy of offshore processing was implemented and since 2013 the government has determined that no asylum seeker reaching Australia by boat will be eligible for resettlement in Australia. In addition, current policy provides for the turning back of boats at sea when it is safe to do so, to maintain the integrity of the country’s borders. This article considers Australian public attitudes to asylum policy. It finds that while there is majority support for the right to seek asylum, in response to questions on boat arrivals strong negative views outnumber the strong positive by more than two to one. The findings also show that the young, females, tertiary educated, financially better off and those born in the United Kingdom are more likely oppose turning refugee boats back. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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36. The long-term development impacts of international migration remittances for sending households: evidence from Morocco.
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Kusunose, Yoko and Rignall, Karen
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GOVERNMENT policy on political refugees , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *POPULATION geography , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
We integrate qualitative and quantitative methods to document the long-term impact of international migration remittances on household investment strategies, wealth outcomes, and equity of asset ownership among households in a Moroccan oasis valley. In the early 1960s, nearly 80,000 Moroccan men from the south-eastern oases left their families to work in French coal mines. Anthropological fieldwork shows that this migration event initiated decades-long streams of steady income in the forms of remittances and pension checks. Accompanying household-level empirical analysis shows that this afforded the migrant-sending households a foothold in the ‘new’ economy: Households invested in vocational training, secondary schooling, and business ownership at rates higher than their non-sending counterparts. Migration also hastened the transition of households out of the ‘old economy’ - land and livestock ownership declined for migrant-sending households, particularly those owning more land. We also document that the migration event was unusually open - work in the coal mines was open to virtually anyone - meaning that the recruits came from across the entire class- and economic spectrum. The combination of an unusually low entry cost and the resultant provision of a large and long flow of cash meant that overall, migration was an equalizing force in the economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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37. Artifacts, Identity, and Transition: Favorite Possessions of Indians and Indian Immigrants to the United States.
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Mehta, Raj and Belk, Russell W.
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INDIANS (Asians) ,PERSONAL belongings ,IDENTITY (Philosophical concept) ,IMMIGRANTS ,IDENTITY (Psychology) ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,UNITED States emigration & immigration ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,IDEOLOGY ,MANNERS & customs - Abstract
The things to which we are attached help to define who we are, who we were, and who we hope to become. These meanings are likely to be especially salient to those in identity transitions. In this study we examine such meanings by comparing favorite possessions of Indians in India and Indians who immigrated to the United States. Because the Indian sense of self differs considerably from Western concepts, these immigrants provide an interesting and important group in which to examine the use of possessions in securing identity. Results suggest that possessions play an important role in the reconstruction of immigrant identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1991
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38. Ethnic Migration, Assimilation, and Consumption.
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Wallendorf, Melanie and Reilly, Michael D.
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CONSUMPTION (Economics) & psychology ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,FOOD consumption research ,CROSS-cultural differences ,CULTURAL capital ,MEXICANS ,ETHNICITY ,CULTURAL identity ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,CULTURAL assumptions ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
The cultural assimilation of Mexican-Americans in the Southwest is assessed by comparing their food consumption patterns with those of income-matched Anglos living in the same region and those of income-matched Mexicans living in Mexico City. Rather than relying on self-report data as indicators of consumption patterns, data concerning the contents of the garbage of these three types of households are used. The results suggest that, contrary to predictions based on the traditional model of assimilation. Mexican-American consumption patterns are not a simple blending of Mexican and Anglo patterns. Rather, Mexican-American consumption patterns suggest the emergence of a unique cultural style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1983
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39. L'Étranger.
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Williams, Patricia J.
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SLAVERY , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *SEGREGATION of African Americans , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *UNITED States history ,UNITED States politics & government, 2001-2009 - Abstract
The article considers Senator Barack Obama and race in America. Obama is generally considered removed from the "black" American experience of slavery and Jim Crow laws by virtue of his Kenyan immigrant father and white mother. His history reshapes the American immigration myth in a way that is comforting to white voters.
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- 2007
40. A Study of Local Incorporation of Migrant Professionals in Wroclaw.
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Jaskulowski, Krzysztof
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ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *IMMIGRATION policy , *IMMIGRATION law , *NONCITIZENS -- Government policy , *PROFESSIONAL employees , *EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
Abstract: The aim of this article is to explore the patterns of local incorporation of migrant professionals in an urban context. It focuses on Wrocław, a Polish city that is not a traditional migration destination. Drawing on qualitative research, the article analyses migrant trajectories of local incorporation in the context of their reasons for relocation, experiences and perspectives. The article shows the irrelevance of ethnic networks for local incorporation. It demonstrates the role played by the workplace and the Internet, which allows forming sociabilities based on commonalities and shared interests, irrespective of cultural differences. It also shows the inconsistency of the city's policies and calls for policy revision. The article concludes that Wroclaw's policy seems not to correspond with the specificity of professional migration. It is argued that the city's policy is based on sedimentary and assimilationist logic that does not take into account migrants’ reasons for relocation and perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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41. A place to call home: Journeys of Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840).
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Paul, Lissa
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,HUMAN geography ,POPULATION geography ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,SOCIAL processes - Abstract
In tracing the colonial odyssey of Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840) from Great Britain to Upper Canada, I show her as an immigration success. From her literary life in London as the author of Secresy (1795) and several innovative children’s books, she transformed herself, as a single working mother, and later grandmother, into a school owner, a businesswoman. At the heart of my essay is her search for social and financial security, a place to call home. Her extant – mostly unpublished – letters demonstrate that it was in the welcoming space of Upper Canada that she established a future for her descendants. Lissa Paul’s biography of Eliza Fenwick, Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840): A Life Rewritten, will be published by the University of Delaware Press in their Early Modern Feminisms Series, in early 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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42. Migration: Language, bereavement and re-birth.
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Naidu, Vayu
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,HUMAN geography ,COLONIES ,POPULATION geography ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,SOCIAL processes - Abstract
This article aims to capture certain emotive consequences of migration, after its geographical and physical occurrence. It deals especially with the selection of the English language, by myself and other writers, to try to integrate the challenge of transposition of references across cultures, that could get lost in translation. The context for the bi-lobial nature of migration here is British colonial history in south India or the Madras Presidency 1857–1916, and ancient or undated myths of oral and literary texts as illustrated in my novel The Sari of Surya Vilas (Naidu 2017). While acknowledging the medicinal and other benefits, I also propose the history of colonial plant hunting, and especially the trade in chocolate and tea, as an appropriate paradigm for the forgotten account of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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43. Las migraciones contemporáneas: un imperativo categórico para la consolidación democrática alternativa y humanizante.
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DÁVILA COBO, Gissela and MOLINA, Camilo
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EMIGRATION & immigration , *SOCIAL conditions of immigrants , *DEMOCRACY , *MULTICULTURALISM , *XENOPHOBIA , *RACISM , *SOCIAL marginality , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
This article presents an editorial in which the authors comment on the relationship between immigration and democracy. They discuss the beneficial influences of a multi-cultural society and examine the prevalence of xenophobia and racism directed towards immigrants in the present day. Questions related to marginalization, assimilation, and appropriation are also addressed.
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- 2018
44. Settlement Intentions and Immigrant Integration: The Case of Recently Arrived EU‐Immigrants in the Netherlands.
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Wachter, Gusta G. and Fleischmann, Fenella
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IMMIGRANTS , *SOCIAL integration , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *IMMIGRATION policy , *EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the effect of settlement intentions on the integration of recently arrived EU‐immigrants in the Netherlands. Hypotheses on differences in integration, both shortly after arrival and over time, are derived from the intergenerational immigrant integration model. Based on two waves of the New Immigrants to the Netherlands Survey, a longitudinal multilevel model was estimated. Most differences were found with regard to the level of integration shortly after arrival. Immigrants who intended to stay had more contact with natives, were more proficient in Dutch, and consumed more host country media than immigrants who intend to leave. On the other hand, they worked fewer hours per week than immigrants who intend to leave. Differences over time were only found with regard to Dutch language proficiency: immigrants who intend to stay increased their proficiency more strongly than immigrants who intend to leave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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45. Self-Selection and Host Country Context in the Economic Assimilation of Political Refugees in the United States, Sweden, and Israel.
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Birgier, Debora Pricila, Lundh, Christer, Haberfeld, Yitchak, and Elldér, Erik
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ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *POLITICAL refugees , *IMMIGRANTS , *SOCIAL integration , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
We study the interplay between host countries’ characteristics and self-selection patterns in relation to refugees’ economic assimilation using a natural experiment in which immigrants from one region migrated to three destinations under similar circumstances. We focus on emigrants fleeing from Argentina and Chile during the military regimes there to the United States, Sweden, and Israel. We find that those refugees show patterns of selection and assimilation similar to those of economic immigrants. Immigrants to the United States and Israel exhibit better selection patterns and consequently faster assimilation than immigrants to Sweden even considering the positive effect of the Swedish market structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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46. Immigration Federalism and Partisan Sorting: the Importance of State-level Actions.
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Davison, Donald L.
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,POPULATION geography ,UNITED States politics & government, 2017-2021 - Abstract
Do the approach and policies adopted by states in response to demographic change influence the political reactions of White and Latino voters? Much research investigating the politics of immigration and demographic change employ national surveys, which infer their results to the state-level. Generally, this research finds that immigration sensitive White voters move to the Republican Party, while Latino voters in reaction to hostile immigration policy positions advocated by state Republican Parties turn to the Democratic Party. This study uses exit-surveys from three states, which followed different policy approaches to immigration in the period 1996-to-2012 to examine whether patterns of partisan change are uniform. This study finds that the most dramatic reactions are in Arizona, which corresponds to their aggressive pursuit of restrictive policies. Florida and Colorado though exhibit more modulated patterns and reflect their ambivalent policy approach. In these states a significant group of Latino voters identify as Independents suggesting that state politics, among other factors, can be one source of partisan change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
47. Determinants of cultural assimilation in the second generation. A longitudinal analysis of values about marriage and sexuality among Moroccan and Turkish migrants.
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Kalmijn, Matthijs and Kraaykamp, Gerbert
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ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *CHILDREN of migrant laborers , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *SOCIAL integration - Abstract
Employing Dutch longitudinal information on 1250 second-generation Moroccan and Turkish migrants we investigate cultural assimilation using attitude questions on marriage and sexuality (including measures of homophobia). Two theoretical approaches guide our analyses. First, it is expected that the family of origin may push migrants in a more conservative direction. Second, it is expected that aspects of individual achievement in social, cultural and socioeconomic domains may pull migrants in more liberal directions. We find that Moroccan and Turkish migrants have considerably more conservative values about marriage and sexuality than natives, but there is also variation within the second generation. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses for migrants indicate that the role of parents is particularly important: migrant children of religiously more orthodox parents and children of parents who were poorly integrated socially and culturally in their youth, currently have more conservative values about marriage and sexuality, even when individual characteristics are controlled for. Of the various aspects of individual achievement, we find that especially social integration of the second generation is a relevant predictor of liberal values, and not socioeconomic indicators of integration. These results remain significant in a stringent longitudinal test which minimises the bias due to reverse causation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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48. Russian Orthodox Diaspora as a Global Religion after 1918.
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Burlacioiu, Ciprian
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CHRISTIANS , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *DIASPORA , *RUSSIAN Revolution, 1905-1907 , *HISTORY - Abstract
World wars and revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century set off a number of streams of refugees and led, inter alia, to the dissolution of traditional religious geographies. Russian Orthodoxy was also affected following the 1917 October Revolution. The following contribution is dedicated to the development of a worldwide polycentric Orthodoxy of Russian origin and to the various survival and assimilation strategies of such groups in the diaspora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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49. The Challenges of Multicultural London in Zadie Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia".
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Nayebpour, Karam
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MULTICULTURALISM ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,MULTICULTURAL education ,CULTURAL pluralism ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
In most of her works, Zadie Smith presents the challenges of a multicultural society. In "The Embassy of Cambodia", she portrays some of the problems of multicultural contemporary London. These problems are mainly shown through a female immigrant's unequal, or second-class, citizenship in a multicultural land, her otherness or split identity, her indeterminate social status, as well as the native's ambivalent perspective toward her, microaggressions against her and inability to recognize her as an equal member of society. As revealed by both the omniscient narrator and the collective first-person plural narrator, the immigrant Other and the natives are disconnected in a multicultural space. The central immigrant character, as my article demonstrates, is pushed toward her own ethnicity and nationality as a result of the native's inherent race consciousness (Englishness) and the highly stratified social structure. Having been ignored, excluded, and repudiated, the immigrant is inevitably driven toward a radical form of religious and racial nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
50. The second generation in Spain: some reflections on the results of ILSEG study.
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Parella, Sònia
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CHILDREN of immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *ECONOMIC mobility , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *RACE discrimination , *EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
After a brief account of the findings of the project Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain (ILSEG), an eight-year-long project which constitutes the first representative study of the outcomes of children of immigrant during their adaptation process in Spain, some reflections concerning the results are shown. Firstly, implications for second generation of significant variations at the subnational level are discussed. Secondly, in spite of the partially optimistic results based on the project ILSEG, the paper considers whether certain groups of youth who become "racialized" or "ethnified" may find their pathways to economic mobility and assimilation blocked due to discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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