Download or read book The Role of Family Structure in Immigrants Economic Integration written by Zahide Eylem Gevrek and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays that focuses on the role of family structure in shaping the economic integration of immigrants. The first essay analyzes the interaction between the labor market and the marriage market for immigrants. I examine the relationship between interethnic marriage and the labor market integration of immigrants. The main findings of this study indicate that intermarriage has a positive effect on immigrants' labor market outcomes. Intermarried immigrants earn more than their co-ethnic married counterparts. Marrying a native is associated with a wage premium of seven percent. Moreover, intermarriage premium varies across generations. Second-generation immigrants are found to receive no gain from intermarriage. The second essay investigates whether there is a significant difference in the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants associated with the presence of a native-born parent. It is important to study educational attainment of children of immigrants as human capital investment is a crucial factor for labor market success. The second essay provides evidence that children with a native-born parent have higher educational attainment than those with two immigrant parents. The third essay empirically examines the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women. Using female labor force participation and total fertility rates in the country of ancestry as cultural proxies, I find that culture matters for the female labor supply. In line with the sociological literature that considers intermarriage as a sign of inclination toward cultural assimilation, I also find that the impact of cultural proxies is significantly larger for women with immigrant parents than for those with intermarried parents.

Download or read book Family Structure and Integration of Immigrants written by Canada. Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Economic and Social Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black Identities written by Mary C. WATERS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.

Download or read book Indicators of Immigrant Integration 2015 Settling In written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents and discusses the integration outcomes of immigrants and their children through 27 indicators organised around five areas: Employment, education and skills, social inclusion, civic engagement and social cohesion.

Download or read book From Generation to Generation written by National Research Council and Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-10-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrant children and youth are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country. However, relevant public policy is shaped less by informed discussion than by politicized contention over welfare reform and immigration limits. From Generation to Generation explores what we know about the development of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian children and youth from numerous countries of origin. Describing the status of immigrant children and youth as "severely understudied," the committee both draws on and supplements existing research to characterize the current status and outlook of immigrant children. The book discusses the many factorsâ€"family size, fluency in English, parent employment, acculturation, delivery of health and social services, and public policiesâ€"that shape the outlook for the lives of these children and youth. The committee makes recommendations for improved research and data collection designed to advance knowledge about these children and, as a result, their visibility in current policy debates.

Download or read book Putting Family First written by Harald Bauder and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role. Putting Family First is the fruit of a four-year academic–community partnership to investigate the experience of immigrant families settling in Greater Toronto. Contributors explore the integration trajectory of immigrant families, from newcomers’ initial reception to their deep involvement in and attachment to their receiving society. Chapters examine the interrelated themes of the policy environment, children and youth, gender, labour markets and work, and community supports, making insightful connections between concepts such as neoliberalism, resilience, and social capital. Putting Family First applies rigorous academic research to solve practical problems, illustrating how the family context can be mobilized to facilitate the successful integration of newcomers and offering important guidance to practitioners and policy makers in Canada and beyond.

Download or read book Multiple Origins Uncertain Destinies written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given current demographic trends, nearly one in five U.S. residents will be of Hispanic origin by 2025. This major demographic shift and its implications for both the United States and the growing Hispanic population make Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies a most timely book. This report from the National Research Council describes how Hispanics are transforming the country as they disperse geographically. It considers their roles in schools, in the labor market, in the health care system, and in U.S. politics. The book looks carefully at the diverse populations encompassed by the term "Hispanic," representing immigrants and their children and grandchildren from nearly two dozen Spanish-speaking countries. It describes the trajectory of the younger generations and established residents, and it projects long-term trends in population aging, social disparities, and social mobility that have shaped and will shape the Hispanic experience.

Download or read book The Intersection of Immigration and Family in Canada written by Claudia Masferrer León and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation studies the complex relationship between family and migration processes. The overarching question that drives this research project is: How do family dynamics, migration adaptation processes, and policy mediate the immigrant integration process? Specifically, I focus on three instances of the intersection of immigration and family in Canada. First, I study differences in living arrangements by entry status over the first four years of arrival to shed light on the relationship between immigrant family dynamics, adaptation processes and selection policy. Second, I study the role of living arrangements on life satisfaction - an indicator of social integration - as recent immigrants go through processes of adaptation. Finally, I study ethnic differences in interpartnering - an indicator of and mechanism for integration - among Latin American immigrants, a population that has increased considerably in recent years.First, I study differences in living arrangements by entry status over the first four years of arrival to shed light on the relationship between immigrant family dynamics, adaptation processes and selection policy using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC). Explanations for doubling-up -- coresidence with extended kin and non-kin -- among immigrants center on life-course events, culture, and economic need. Empirical evidence on how entry status influences the duration of being doubled-up remains limited. Findings suggest that using a linear effect of time since arrival to measure the migration process without considering variations by entry status is misleading. Second, I study the role of living arrangements on life satisfaction - an indicator of social integration - as recent immigrants go through processes of adaptation. As in the first paper, I use LSIC and cross-sectional and longitudinal logistic regression models. Findings here provide evidence that social and economic integration make a significant contribution to immigrant life satisfaction, while co-residents and living arrangements have a small influence on satisfaction shortly after arrival, and over time. Finally, using the 2006 Canadian Census, I study ethnic differences in interpartnering - an indicator of and mechanism for integration - among Latin American immigrants, examining their unions with co-nationals, non-conational foreign-born, and non-conational Canadian-born. The analysis evaluates the contribution of social exchange theory, demographic accounts, and theories of immigrant integration. Evidence from multinomial logit regressions shows that differences in exogamy between immigrants from these four countries are more prominent for men than women for both types of interpartnering, and the most pronounced country differences in interpartnering are for partnerships with non-conational foreign-born. Findings further show differences in the explanatory factors by type of partnering. The contributions of this dissertation are threefold. At the empirical level, this dissertation offers the first evaluation using nationally representative Canadian data of the outcomes under study. At the methodological level, the use of longitudinal data and fixed-effects models contributes to the understanding of the migrant adaptation process. These models account for entry status, personality, ethnicity, cultural values, and norms that are difficult to measure in quantitative studies, and that may be related to selectivity processes in family dynamics. Finally, it makes a theoretical contribution to the immigrant integration literature by showing that socialization processes and modes of incorporation do not explain interpartnering with non-conational foreign-born, demonstrates the need for a better understanding of immigrant ethnic boundaries, and shows a non-homogenous effect of time since arrival by entry status." --

Download or read book How Immigrants Contribute to Developing Countries Economies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Immigrants Contribute to Developing Countries' Economies is the result of a project carried out by the OECD Development Centre and the International Labour Organization, with support from the European Union. The report covers the ten project partner countries.

Download or read book Gender Generations and the Family in International Migration written by Albert Kraler and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from--and sometimes ignorant of--each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen chapters come up with a number of common themes. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question, if not counter, simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourses, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives at various levels and via different methodological approaches and to acknowledge the state's role in shaping family-related migration, practices and lives"--Rear cover.

Download or read book Across Generations written by Emerald Thai Han Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation addresses the changing nature of American families, focusing specifically on immigrant extended families. Chapter 1 examines the reasons for these complex living arrangements. For many Americans, living with extended kin—non-nuclear family members—is a strategy used to mitigate economic disadvantage, provide support to family members at different life stages, or uphold cultural beliefs about filial responsibility. That racial and ethnic group differences persist after taking into account economic and demographic factors begs the question of whether extended living is always an option of last resort based on low socioeconomic status or needs during certain life stages. Research that points to cultural norms and behaviors provide clues as to how extended living arrangements are motivated by more than just economic or life stage necessities, but studies overlook how beliefs about the family change, especially through migration and assimilation processes. Analyzing 40 in-depth interviews with Northern California residents, including Asian and Latino immigrants and their descendants, this paper fills a gap in the literature by contributing empirical research that demonstrates how cultural beliefs are both durable and changing, and offers new ways of understanding how individuals understand and justify their living arrangements with kin. In particular, respondents use cultural scripts—narratives based on beliefs and behaviors from origin countries, migration experiences, or racial and ethnic groups—to explain their living situations. Cultural scripts reflect the durability of extended family arrangements that are informed by respondents’ home country beliefs and are reinforced by the immigrant experience. At the same time, cultural scripts are changing and situationally-bounded, depending on individuals’ economic circumstances and life stages. These findings contribute to the discussion on the changing nature of American families. Chapter 2 explores how immigrants and their children understand extended living arrangements, and how they engage in intergenerational cultural transmission. Immigrant families come from Asian and Latin American countries where living with extended kin is common, and for whom doubling up is an integration strategy in the United States. The extended family is an important site for observing intergenerational dynamics, especially as the older immigrant and younger native-born generations undergo acculturation. Drawing from 33 interviews with immigrant and native-born Asians and Latinos living in extended families, results indicate that older generation respondents view the extended family as a way of maintaining cohesion and transmitting cultural values to the younger generation. While younger generation respondents embrace coresidence, these American-born children view extended living differently, using bicultural narratives to explain their experiences. Both generations see living together as a cornerstone of the immigrant family experience; and yet, both acknowledge that it may also be an impediment to the younger generation’s future upward mobility. These findings illustrate how the younger generation, embedded in dual and in some ways competing ideological contexts, must navigate and balance demands to both family and self. Implications for assimilation theories, specifically selective assimilation, are discussed. Chapter 3 analyzes the consequences of extended living arrangements, in terms of labor force participation. Living arrangements have grown more complex in recent years as families continue to adapt to structural changes resulting from the economic recession. In the face of increasing financial uncertainty and occupational instability, extended family arrangements—living with non-nuclear members—are an important support mechanism. Although research has examined complex living arrangements among recent migrants, it is not clear how these family structures are related to the economic assimilation of immigrant descendants. Using 1996-2015 Current Population Survey (CPS) data, this paper examines how immigrant generation and family structure work in concert to shape individuals’ labor force participation. In extended families with shared support, members may be better able to engage in the labor market compared to families where support is unequal, and individuals in immigrant families may be more likely to engage in providing support amongst each other compared to individuals in native-born families. Findings indicate that Hispanics, Asians, blacks and whites in extended families have different labor force participation and employment outcomes, and that extended living does not operate similarly across generations or among race groups.

Download or read book A Life Course Perspective on Migration and Integration written by Matthias Wingens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost all fields of social inquiry it is much less used in research studying migrant populations and their integration patterns. This is puzzling since understanding immigrants’ integration requires just the kind of dynamic research approach this approach puts forward: any integration theory actually refers to life course processes. This volume shows fruitful cross-linkages between the two research traditions. A range of studies are presented that all apply sociological life course concepts to research on migrants and migrant groups in Europe. The book is organized thematically, indicating different important domains in the life course. Using a wide variety of methodological approaches, it covers both quantitative studies based on population census data and survey material as well as qualitative studies based on interviews. Attention is paid to the life courses of those who migrated themselves as well as their offspring. The studies cover different European countries, relating to one national context or a particular local setting in a city as well as cross-country comparisons. Overall the book shows that applying the sociological life course approach to migration and integration research may advance our understanding of immigrant settlement patterns as well as further develop the life course perspective

Download or read book The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration finds that the long-term impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and that any negative impacts are most likely to be found for prior immigrants or native-born high school dropouts. First-generation immigrants are more costly to governments than are the native-born, but the second generation are among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S. This report concludes that immigration has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth in the U.S. More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans. It comes as little surprise, then, that many U.S. residents view immigration as a major policy issue facing the nation. Not only does immigration affect the environment in which everyone lives, learns, and works, but it also interacts with nearly every policy area of concern, from jobs and the economy, education, and health care, to federal, state, and local government budgets. The changing patterns of immigration and the evolving consequences for American society, institutions, and the economy continue to fuel public policy debate that plays out at the national, state, and local levels. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration assesses the impact of dynamic immigration processes on economic and fiscal outcomes for the United States, a major destination of world population movements. This report will be a fundamental resource for policy makers and law makers at the federal, state, and local levels but extends to the general public, nongovernmental organizations, the business community, educational institutions, and the research community.

Download or read book Immigration Policy and the Economic Integration of Immigrants written by Richard Wanner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a great deal of existing research on immigration has had implications for immigration policy, very little of this research has attempted to assess directly the effects of policy on immigrant outcomes. This project uses high-quality individual-level data from European countries, Canada, Australia, and the United States combined with data on immigration policies and labour market structures in those countries to estimate crossed random-effects multilevel models to determine how inter-country variations in immigration policies affect the household income, unemployment, and the receipt of welfare benefits among immigrants. By permitting the inclusion of individual-level characteristics predicting individual levels of the economic integration variables, as well as characteristics of both destination and origin countries, these models assess the effects of a wide variety of broad immigration and settlement policies on the labour market experiences of immigrants, including skill selection, annual quotas, family reunification, and admission of refugees. The main conclusion from the analysis is that many of these policies have the intended effect on immigrant use of destination country welfare benefits, but no important effects on any of the other measures of economic integration.

Download or read book Migration and Culture written by Gil Epstein and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture plays a central role in our understanding of migration as an economic phenomenon. This title emphasises on the distinctions in culture between migrants, the families they left behind, and the local population in the migration destination.

Download or read book The Social Resources of Immigrants Effects on the Integration of Independent and Family Class Immigrants to Toronto Canada from South Asia written by Stephanie M. Potter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central goal of this thesis is to examine the importance of a range of immigrant resources--not only human capital, but also social, financial cultural and psychological resources--in the process of immigrant integration, and to determine how these resources affect the relative success of independent and family class immigrants. Most immigration research conceptualizes integration in objective economic terms to the exclusion of other domains, with a concurrent preoccupation with immigrants' human capital resources; only recently has a competing explanation in the form of social resources emerged, though it remains understated. Using economic and well-being measures of integration, this thesis therefore addresses policy debates about the relative adaptability of these two immigrant classes, and contributes to a theoretically underdeveloped area by extending the definition of integration, and of the integration process, beyond the human capital model. The analysis uses data from the 'South Asian Newcomer Study' collected for this thesis, in which 109 face-to-face interviews were conducted with family and independent class South Asian immigrants. Findings indicate slight differences in human capital resources by immigrant class, though independent class respondents have higher levels of financial and cultural resources. Respondents' network structures vary by class, with family class respondents reporting smaller, more dense, kin-dominated networks, and higher overall levels of social support. In terms of economic integration measures, independent immigrants are more successful, though high levels of certain types of human capital are a liability to achieving economic integration. Moreover, family class respondents' poorer economic performance is linked to the composition of their networks, which disadvantage them in this domain of integration, and not to their human capital levels. Overall, social network and human capital variables are the strongest predictors of economic integration, challenging researchers' preoccupation with the latter. In terms of levels of well-being, family class respondents report higher levels despite poorer economic outcomes; this is explained by their superior levels of social support, which are the strongest predictors in conjunction with a measure of cultural capital. Results support a multidimensional conceptualization of integration that acknowledges the independence of different domains. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.

Download or read book The Family in Question written by R. D. Grillo and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family lives of immigrants and ethnic minority populations have become central to arguments about the right and wrong ways of living in multicultural societies. While the characteristic cultural practices of such families have long been scrutinized by the media and policy makers, these groups themselves are beginning to reflect on how to manage their family relationships. Exploring case studies from Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, The Family in Question explores how those in public policy often dangerously reflect the popular imagination, rather than recognizing the complex changes taking place within the global immigrant community. In hoeverre allochtonen vrij zijn hun cultuur te uiten in de multiculturele samenleving staat bijna dagelijks ter discussie in de media en politiek. Vaak wordt vergeten dat ook migrantenfamilies zelf worstelen om hun tradities en gebruiken vorm te geven in een pluriforme samenleving waarin relaties met familie zeer complex kunnen zijn. In The Family Question worden migrantenfamilies in onder andere Nederland, Oostenrijk en Noorwegen onderzocht. Hieruit blijkt dat spelers op het vlak van beleidsvorming vaak toegeven aan populaire misverstanden over allochtonen en zo bijdragen aan de heersende xenofobie en stereotypering van immigranten.