Journal articles: 'Immigrants Chinese Assimilation (Sociology)'

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Nee, Victor, and Herbert Y. Wong. "Asian American Socioeconomic Achievement." Sociological Perspectives 28, no. 3 (July 1985): 281–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1389149.

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The analysis emphasizes the need to examine structural and cultural factors in the sending and receiving countries over a historical process to understand how immigrants are incorporated in American society. The article argues that Chinese were slower to make the transition from sojourner to immigrant due to structural characteristics of Chinese village society; whereas Japanese immigrants were not tied by strong family bonds to Japan and made a more rapid transition. The differential timing of family formation and family-run businesses in America account for the more rapid assimilation of Japanese Americans. Changing labor markets after World War II provided new opportunity structures favorable to the socioeconomic mobility of native-born Chinese and Japanese Americans.

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Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Dmitry Tumin. "Whom Do Immigrants Marry? Emerging Patterns of Intermarriage and Integration in the United States." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 662, no. 1 (October 11, 2015): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716215594614.

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We document patterns of intermarriage between immigrants and natives during a period of unprecedented growth in the size and diversity of America’s foreign-born population. Roughly one in six U.S. marriages today involve immigrants and a large share includes U.S.-born partners. Ethno-racial background clearly shapes trajectories of immigrant social integration. White immigrants are far more likely than other groups to marry U.S.-born natives, mostly other whites. Black immigrants are much less likely to marry black natives or out-marry with other groups. Intermarriage is also linked with other well-known proxies of social integration—educational attainment, length of time in the country, and naturalization status. Classifying America’s largest immigrant groups (e.g., Chinese and Mexican) into broad panethnic groups (e.g., Asians and Hispanics) hides substantial diversity in the processes of marital assimilation and social integration across national origin groups.

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Tyers, Roger, Tristan Berchoux, Kun Xiang, and Xu Yi Yao. "China-to-UK Student Migration and Pro-environmental Behaviour Change: A Social Practice Perspective." Sociological Research Online 24, no. 4 (August 22, 2018): 575–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780418794194.

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Significant life-course changes can be ‘windows of opportunity’ to disrupt practices. Using qualitative focus group data, this article examines whether the life-course change experienced by Chinese students migrating to the UK has an effect on environmentally impactful practices. It does so by examining how such practices are understood and performed by Chinese and UK students living in their own countries, and contrasting them with those of Chinese students in the UK. Using a social practice framework, these findings suggest that practices do change, and this change can be conceptualised using a framework of competences, materials, and meanings. The findings show meanings – the cultural and social norms ascribed to pro-environmental behaviour – to be particularly susceptible to the influence of ‘communities of practice’ where immigrants and natives mix, with pro-environmental behaviour change resulting from assimilation and mimesis rather than normative engagement.

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Zhou, Min. "Segmented assimilation and socio-economic integration of Chinese immigrant children in the USA." Ethnic and Racial Studies 37, no. 7 (May 30, 2014): 1172–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2014.874566.

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Zhou, Min, and Jennifer Lee. "BECOMING ETHNIC OR BECOMING AMERICAN?" Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4, no. 1 (2007): 189–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x07070105.

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AbstractAs the new second generation comes of age in the twenty-first century, it is making an indelible imprint in cities across the country, compelling immigration scholars to turn their attention to this growing population. In this essay, we first review the extant literature on immigrant incorporation, with a particular focus on the mobility patterns of the new second generation. Second, we critically evaluate the existing assumptions about the definitions of and pathways to success and assimilation. We question the validity and reliability of key measures of social mobility, and also assess the discrepancy between the “objective” measures often used in social science research and the “subjective” measures presented by members of the second generation. Third, we examine the identity choices of the new second generation, focusing on how they choose to identify themselves, and the mechanisms that underlie their choice of identities. We illuminate our review with some preliminary findings from our ongoing qualitative study of 1.5- and second-generation Mexicans, Chinese, and Vietnamese in Los Angeles. In doing so, we attempt to dispel some myths about group-based cultures, stereotypes, and processes of assimilation.

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Ford, Caleb. "Guiqiao (Returned Overseas Chinese) Identity in the prc归侨的认同意识." Journal of Chinese Overseas 10, no. 2 (November 26, 2014): 239–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341283.

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Beginning in the early 1950s there were tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese who chose to ‘return’ to the People’s Republic of China (prc). Until fairly recently, little attention has been given to the approximately 600,000 ethnic Chinese who chose to immigrate to China from locations throughout Southeast Asia, as well as further afield in the first few decades after the founding of theprc. There were many factors influencing their migration to a country that many had never stepped foot on. However, it is clear that the Chinese state made a concerted attempt to rally the support (capital and immigration) of overseas Chinese communities. Many of the returnees were resettled on one of dozens of ‘Overseas Chinese Farms’ (huaqiao nongchang) scattered throughout the provinces of southern China. Outside of China they were considered ‘Chinese’ and foreign, juxtaposed against the local or ‘indigenous’ identities that had taken shape in tandem with the independence of former colonies in Southeast Asia and the rise of modern nationalism. Upon their ‘return’ to what was, for many, an imagined ancestral homeland — a country many of them had never seen — they were confronted with a different type of discrimination and suspicion than they faced ‘abroad’. This was despite, and in some cases because of, certain favorable policies enacted by the party state to assist in their relocation and assimilation into society. Ironically, some of the same policies that sought to gradually assimilate them into Chinese society actually reinforced their position as ‘permanent outsiders’: the creation of an official ‘huaqiao’ legal status; institutionalized segregation in the form ofhuaqiao nongchang, huaqiao villages, andhuaqiao schools; and a resultant pariah status that did not begin to recede until after the reforms of the late 1970s. While the concept of ‘huaqiao’ (overseas Chinese sojourners) was falling out of use among Chinese communities abroad, the word was taking on a new meaning in theprc, both for the Chinese party state, and for those who would come to self-identify ashuaqiao/guiqiao.

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Li, Shuang, and Weiwei Zhang. "Living in Ethnic Areas or Not? Residential Preference of Decimal Generation Immigrants among Asian Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and Vietnamese." Social Sciences 10, no. 6 (June 10, 2021): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060222.

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The present study examines the spatial assimilation patterns of immigrants who arrived as children. The main objective is to predict the likelihood of living in ethnic areas for decimal generation immigrants (1.25, 1.5, and 1.75) among Asian Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and Vietnamese. Using 2013–2017 5-Year ACS Estimates and IPUMS, it applies the measure of local spatial clustering (the Local Moran’s I statistic) to identify ethnic areas and the logistic regression model to assess the effects of immigrant generational status, cultural, and socioeconomic assimilation on the probability of living in ethnic areas. The findings show that the 1.25 and 1.5 decimal generation immigrants of Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, and Koreans demonstrate higher propensities of living in ethnic areas compared to the first generation of each ethnic group, respectively. Meanwhile, their Asian Indians and Vietnamese counterparts show spatial assimilation. Regardless of generational effects, English language ability positively relates to the probability of living in nonethnic areas, whereas economic assimilation indicators reveal mixed results. We found substantial evidence for resurgent ethnicity theory and some support of spatial assimilation model, indicating the ethnic disparity in spatial assimilation patterns among Asian immigrants. Our paper highlights the nonlinear assimilation patterns among Asian decimal generations. Results suggest that, for Asian immigrants in the U.S., age-at-arrival and ethnicity are both significant predictors of residential preference.

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Villarreal, Andrés, and Christopher R. Tamborini. "Immigrants’ Economic Assimilation: Evidence from Longitudinal Earnings Records." American Sociological Review 83, no. 4 (June 15, 2018): 686–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003122418780366.

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We examine immigrants’ earnings trajectories and measure the extent and speed with which they are able to reduce the earnings gap with natives, using a dataset that links respondents of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their longitudinal earnings obtained from individual tax records. Our analysis addresses key debates regarding ethnoracial and cohort differences in immigrants’ earnings trajectories. First, we find a racially differentiated pattern of earnings assimilation: black and Hispanic immigrants are less able to catch up with native whites’ earnings compared to white and Asian immigrants, but they are almost able to reach earnings parity with natives of their same race and ethnicity. Second, we find no evidence of a declining “quality” of immigrant cohorts even after controlling for their ethnoracial composition and human capital. Immigrants arriving since 1994 actually experience similar or slightly higher earnings growth compared to immigrants from earlier eras. We identify a pattern of accelerated assimilation in which more educated immigrants experience much of their earnings growth during the first years after arriving.

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Jiménez, Tomás R., and David Fitzgerald. "MEXICAN ASSIMILATION." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4, no. 2 (2007): 337–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x07070191.

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One of the principal theoretical and policy questions in the sociology of international migration is the extent to which post-1965 immigrants are either assimilating in the United States or remain stuck in an ethnic “underclass.” This paper aims to recast conventional approaches to assimilation through a temporal and spatial reorientation, with special attention to the Mexican-origin case. Attending to the effects of the replenishment of the Mexican-origin population through a constant stream of new immigrants shows significant assimilation taking place temporally between a given immigrant cohort and subsequent generations. Thinking outside the national box, through comparing the growing differences between Mexican migrants and their descendants, on the one hand, and Mexicans who stay in Mexico, on the other, reveals, spatially, a dramatic upward mobility and a process of “homeland dissimilation” that conventional accounts miss. We demonstrate the analytic utility of these two perspectives through an empirical comparison with more orthodox approaches to educational stratification.

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Hornsby-Smith, Michael P., and Angela Dale. "The Assimilation of Irish Immigrants in England." British Journal of Sociology 39, no. 4 (December 1988): 519. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/590499.

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Chen, Shyh-Jer. "Characteristics and Assimilation of Chinese Immigrants in the US Labour Market." International Migration 36, no. 2 (June 1998): 187–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2435.00042.

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Hammarstedt, Mats. "Assimilation and participation in social assistance among immigrants." International Journal of Social Welfare 18, no. 1 (March 5, 2008): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2008.00555.x.

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Vang, Zoua M. "The Limits of Spatial Assimilation for Immigrants’ Full Integration." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 641, no. 1 (March 30, 2012): 220–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716211432280.

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Residential integration with the dominant native-born population is believed to be a crucial stage in immigrants’ overall assimilation process. It is argued that without residential integration it would be difficult, if not impossible, for immigrants to achieve full incorporation into the host society. This article compares the sociospatial experiences of African immigrants in the United States and Ireland. Results show that African immigrants in Ireland have achieved spatial integration with Irish nationals, while their counterparts in the United States remain spatially separated from white Americans. The extent to which African immigrants’ integration in Ireland can produce other forms of assimilation is questionable, however. Likewise, despite being segregated from whites, African immigrants in the United States have made some modest spatial gains that may facilitate their integration. The cross-national comparison draws into question the generally accepted notion that residential integration is an important intermediary substage in the assimilation process.

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Rumbaut, Rubén G. "Paradoxes (and Orthodoxies) of Assimilation." Sociological Perspectives 40, no. 3 (September 1997): 483–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1389453.

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The concept of assimilation, whether as outcome or process, conflates elements that are both empirical and ideological, ethnographic and ethnocentric. Conventional wisdom on the adaptation of immigrants in America has conceived of “assimilation” prescriptively and not only descriptively, as a linear process of progressive adjustment to American life. This conception is guided by an implicit deficit model: to get ahead immigrants need to learn how to “become American” and overcome their deficits with respect to the new language and culture, the new economy and society. As they shed the old and acquire the new over time, they surmount those obstacles and make their way more successfully—a homogenizing process more or less completed by the second or third generation. Recent research findings, however, especially in the areas of immigrant health, mental health, ethnic self-identity and education, debunk such ethnocentric assumptions, often running precisely in the opposite direction of what is expected from traditional perspectives. Some empirical examples are highlighted, focusing on paradoxes—on evidence that contradicts orthodox expectations—in order to identify areas that need conceptual, analytical, and theoretical refinement, including the need to spell out precisely and systematically what it is that is being “assimilated,” by whom, under what circumstances, and in reference to what sector of American society. The diversity of contemporary immigrants to the United States, in terms of class, culture, color, and the contexts within which they are received, and their segmented modes of incorporation, raise new questions about assimilation from what? to what? and for what?

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Qian, Zhenchao, and Daniel T. Lichter. "Measuring Marital Assimilation: Intermarriage among Natives and Immigrants." Social Science Research 30, no. 2 (June 2001): 289–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ssre.2000.0699.

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Wilson, Tamar Diana. "Chinese Immigrants in Mexico." Latin American Perspectives 42, no. 6 (October 19, 2015): 197–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x15604153.

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Estep, Kevin. "Constructing a Language Problem: Status-based Power Devaluation and the Threat of Immigrant Inclusion." Sociological Perspectives 60, no. 3 (March 17, 2016): 437–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121416638367.

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Opposition to immigrant inclusion is often grounded in a “Latino threat” narrative that portrays Latino immigrants and their descendants as incapable of assimilation and “undeserving” of the benefits of citizenship. Are nativist reactions to this narrative strongest where immigrants are lagging behind in cultural assimilation, or where they are actually making the greatest gains? Two competing logics of status threat are tested through an analysis of county-level voting returns on California’s Proposition 227. Status politics theories predict higher antibilingual support where immigrants are failing to learn English. In contrast, the status devaluation argument leads to the counterintuitive prediction that support should be highest where language assimilation rates are high. Although we might expect that the claims of the Latino threat narrative would be least appealing where objective circumstances refute them, findings suggest that the resonance of such claims can be amplified in settings where they are furthest from the truth. The theoretical argument advanced helps explain why nativist policies continue to generate broad appeal at a time when immigrants are rapidly assimilating.

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Myles, John, and Feng Hou. "Changing Colours: Spatial Assimilation and New Racial Minority Immigrants." Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 29, no. 1 (2004): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3341944.

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Myles, John, and Feng Hou. "Changing Colours: Spatial Assimilation and New Racial Minority Immigrants." Canadian Journal of Sociology 29, no. 1 (2004): 29–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjs.2004.0011.

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Tong, Yuying, Wenyang Su, and Eric Fong. "Labor market integration of non-Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2011: Structure of global market or White privilege?" Chinese Journal of Sociology 4, no. 1 (January 2018): 79–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057150x17748533.

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Previous studies of Hong Kong immigrants have largely focused on those Chinese from the mainland, and less attention has been paid to non-Chinese immigrants. As exceptions to this, a few studies have focused on the channels of non-Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong, but less research has examined their labor market outcomes. This is partly because theories about immigrants in Asia’s global city are underdeveloped, and the traditional labor market assimilation theory based on the North American and European experience may not easily translate to the case of global cities in Asia. In this research, we examine the employment status, occupational rank, and earnings outcomes of Chinese and non-Chinese immigrants from the perspectives of global economic structure and White privilege. Using 5% Hong Kong census/by-census data from 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011, we draw two major conclusions. First, in the Hong Kong labor market, immigrants from more developed countries enjoy a labor market advantage, which demonstrates the advantages of core-nation origin. In contrast, their counterparts from peripheral nations are penalized. The labor market gap between immigrants from core nations and peripheral nations grew at the turn of the 21st century but narrowed in 2006. Second, White immigrants are privileged in the Hong Kong labor market, showing that White privilege has been transmitted to a non-White-dominant society.

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Badanta, Barbara, Juan Vega-Escaño, Sergio Barrientos-Trigo, Lorena Tarriño-Concejero, María Ángeles García-Carpintero García-Carpintero Muñoz, María González-Cano-Caballero, Antonio Barbero-Radío, Domingo de-Pedro-Jimenez, Giancarlo Lucchetti, and Rocío de Diego-Cordero. "Acculturation, Health Behaviors, and Social Relations among Chinese Immigrants Living in Spain." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 14 (July 18, 2021): 7639. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147639.

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This study aims to identify acculturation experiences about social relations and health behaviors of first-generation Chinese immigrants in the South of Spain, including food patterns, physical exercise, and tobacco and alcohol use. A phenomenological qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews, informal conversations, and field notes. All data were analyzed under the Berry’s Model of Acculturation. A total of 133 Chinese immigrants were included. Our findings show that separation was the dominant acculturation strategy, followed by integration and assimilation, while marginalization was not present in this immigrant population. Most of the immigrant population maintains a link to the customs of their home country, favoring the process of identity and collective self-esteem. These results can help health managers and the government to further understand Chinese immigrants in Europe and to establish appropriate health interventions to this group.

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Wang, Xiaotao. "Transnationalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 4, no. 2 (May 20, 2020): p122. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v4n2p122.

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Chinese American literature is commonly interpreted as the narrative of the living experiences of Chinese Americans. Under the past nation-state research paradigm, Chinese American literature critics both in China and America are preoccupied with the “assimilation” of immigrants and their descendants in Chinese American literature texts, they argue that Chinese culture is the barrier for the immigrants to be fully assimilated into the mainstream society. But putting Chinese American literature under the context of globalization, these arguments seem inaccurate and out of date. This article examines the transnational practices and emotional attachments in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club to show that the identity in these two works are neither American nor Chinese, but transnational. Thus, Chinese American literature is not the writing of Chinese Americans’ Americanness, but a celebration of their transnationalism.

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Cho, Taeyoung, Taesoo Cho, and Hao Zhang. "The Effect of the Acculturation of Chinese Immigrants on Tourist Satisfaction and Quality of Life." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 6, 2021): 1770. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041770.

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Given the rapidly increasing number of foreign nationals migrating to Korea, this study investigates the relationship between cultural adaptation, tourist satisfaction, and quality of life among Chinese immigrants in Korea. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 344 Chinese immigrants in Korea who visited Gyeongju, where Korean World Heritage sites and modern tourist facilities coexist. A structural equation model was used to verify the hypothesis and indicated that cultural assimilation and cultural separation had a significant effect on tourist satisfaction, whereas cultural integration and cultural change did not have any statistically significant effect on tourist satisfaction. Additionally, tourist satisfaction had a significant effect on quality of life (in terms of subjective well-being and psychological well-being). The results of this study can function as a reference for improving Chinese immigrants’ cultural adaptation, tourist satisfaction, and quality of life.

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Marriott, McKim, and Jean Bacon. "Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants." Contemporary Sociology 26, no. 6 (November 1997): 734. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2654650.

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FONG, TIMOTHY. "Epidemics, racial anxiety and community formation: Chinese Americans in San Francisco." Urban History 30, no. 3 (December 2003): 401–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926804001592.

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Immigration adaptation and race relations in the United States began receiving a great deal of scholarly attention early in the twentieth century, primarily in response to the arrival of large numbers of newcomers from eastern and southern Europe. The pre-eminent theory has been sociologist Robert Park's (1950) ‘race relations’ cycle, which posits that immigrants and racial minorities initially clashed with natives over cultural values and norms, but over time, adapt and are eventually absorbed into the mainstream society. This four-part cycle of contact, competition, accommodation and assimilation, according to Park, is ‘progressive and irreversible’. Unlike European Americans, however, the Chinese American experience in the United States has never been a consistent trajectory toward progressive and irreversible acceptance and assimilation.

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Castro, Lorena. "Marching Toward Assimilation? The 2006 Immigrant Rights Marches and the Attitudes of Mexican Immigrants About Assimilation." Social Problems 65, no. 1 (May 11, 2017): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spx013.

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García, Angela S., and Leah Schmalzbauer. "Placing Assimilation Theory: Mexican Immigrants in Urban and Rural America." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 672, no. 1 (June 23, 2017): 64–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716217708565.

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Assimilation theory typically conceptualizes native whites in metropolitan areas as the mainstream reference group to which immigrants’ adaptation is compared. Yet the majority of the U.S. population will soon be made up of ethnoracial minorities. The rise of new immigrant destinations has contributed to this demographic change in rural areas, in addition to already-diverse cities. In this article, we argue that assimilation is experienced in reference to the demographic populations within urban and rural destinations as well as the physical geography of these places. We analyze and compare the experiences of rural Mexicans who immigrated to urban Southern California and rural Montana, demonstrating the ways in which documentation status in the United States and the rurality of immigrants’ communities of origin in Mexico shape assimilation in these two destinations.

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Lirio, Gutiérrez Rivera. "Assimilation or Cultural Difference? Palestinian Immigrants in Honduras." Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 48 (January 2014): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7440/res48.2014.05.

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Virk, Indermohan, and Jean Bacon. "Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants." Social Forces 76, no. 2 (December 1997): 732. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2580745.

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Du (杜娟), Juan. "Chinese Immigrants Acting as Local Residents." Journal of Chinese Overseas 16, no. 2 (November 11, 2020): 191–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341423.

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Abstract Urban violence and threats to personal safety are everyday issues of shared concern for Chinese migrants in France. They push Chinese migrants to act as local residents and to interact with the host country in various and unexpected ways, whether openly or inconspicuously, in order to improve their living environment and negotiate their place in the host society. Drawing on an ethnography of Chinese immigrants living in the banlieues of Paris and their everyday social practices in relation to the issues of violence and insecurity, this article documents the strategies of everyday resistance used by Chinese immigrants, grounded in their local knowledge. In a shift toward further local participation, they perform these actions as local residents, resulting in a de facto citizenship.

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Zhou, Min, and Roberto G. Gonzales. "Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing Up in the United States." Annual Review of Sociology 45, no. 1 (July 30, 2019): 383–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073018-022424.

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More than a quarter century of research has generated fruitful results and new insights into the understanding of the lived experiences of the new second generation, which broadly includes both native-born and foreign-born children of immigrant parentage. We critically review the burgeoning literature on the divergent trajectories and unequal outcomes of this new second generation. Given recent changes in immigration policy and in contexts of both exit and reception for new immigrants, we pay special attention to the significance of selectivity and immigration status. We begin by revisiting the canonical literature on assimilation and presenting the original formulation of the segmented assimilation theory as a critique. We then assess the impressive body of empirical research and discuss alternative concepts, models, and paradigms. We conclude our review by discussing the implications for future research on the children of immigrants.

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Akresh, Ilana Redstone. "Wealth accumulation among U.S. immigrants: A study of assimilation and differentials." Social Science Research 40, no. 5 (September 2011): 1390–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.08.004.

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Ang, Ien. "Beyond Chinese groupism: Chinese Australians between assimilation, multiculturalism and diaspora." Ethnic and Racial Studies 37, no. 7 (December 10, 2013): 1184–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2014.859287.

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Hopkins, Daniel J. "The Upside of Accents: Language, Inter-group Difference, and Attitudes toward Immigration." British Journal of Political Science 45, no. 3 (February 4, 2014): 531–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123413000483.

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Many developed democracies are experiencing high immigration, and public attitudes likely shape their policy responses. Prior studies of ethnocentrism and stereotyping make divergent predictions about anti-immigration attitudes. Some contend that culturally distinctive immigrants consistently generate increased opposition; others predict that natives’ reactions depend on the particular cultural distinction and associated stereotypes. This article tests these hypotheses using realistic, video-based experiments with representative American samples. The results refute the expectation that more culturally distinctive immigrants necessarily induce anti-immigration views: exposure to Latino immigrants with darker skin tones or who speak Spanish does not increase restrictionist attitudes. Instead, the impact of out-group cues hinges on their content and related norms, as immigrants who speak accented English seem to counteract negative stereotypes related to immigrant assimilation.

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Lien, Pei-Te. "Transnational Homeland Concerns and Participation in US Politics: A Comparison among Immigrants from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong." Journal of Chinese Overseas 2, no. 1 (2006): 56–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/179325406788639075.

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AbstractThis study addresses the scholarly debate between assimilation and transnationalism through analyses of public opinion data collected mainly in California and from residents of Chinese descent whose families originated from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere in Asia. It explores the empirical relationship between Chinese Americans' concern about the political condition of the ethnic homelands in Asia and their patterns of political participation in the United States. Not all transnational concerns are equal. This study distinguishes between the democratic-oriented and nationalist-oriented transnational political behavior. It also separates voting registration from other types of political participation. A main argument of this study is that the relationship between political assimilation and transnational linkages depends both on the nature of the transnational political concern and on the type of political participation. Transnational political concerns are found to influence the degree of participation in regime-influence (e.g. making campaign contributions) but not system-support (e.g. voting registration) acts. Also, only those homeland concerns that are consistent with US foreign policy interests such as regarding the democratic future of Hong Kong after the 1997 transition are found to have a positive impact on participation.

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Marger, Martin N. "Transnationalism or assimilation? Patterns of sociopolitical adaptation among Canadian business immigrants." Ethnic and Racial Studies 29, no. 5 (September 2006): 882–900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870600813926.

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Collet-Sabé, Jordi. "Religious discrimination in young Muslim assimilation in Spain: Contributions to Portes and Rumbaut’s segmented assimilation theory." Social Compass 67, no. 4 (August 18, 2020): 599–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037768620948476.

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This article aims to consider the role of religion in the integration process of children born to immigrants in host societies (second generation) in Spain using the theory of segmented assimilation of Portes and Rumbaut and Portes, Aparicio and Haller. It is based on an exploratory qualitative research project conducted in a medium-sized city in Catalonia that examined the integration of young people of different origins and the role religion played in this process. To do so, we proffer a religious discrimination hypothesis: a scenario in which Islam, but not other religions, can become a significant barrier to positive assimilation. According to the results, this ‘religious stigma’ scenario occurs in the majority of the young Muslims who were interviewed and across many aspects of their lives.

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Kislev, Elyakim. "Open markets, closed societies: The dual assimilation of immigrants in Western Europe." Social Science Research 82 (August 2019): 92–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.04.004.

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Harles, John C. "Integration before Assimilation: Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Canadian Polity." Canadian Journal of Political Science 30, no. 4 (December 1997): 711–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900016498.

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AbstractAs a strategy of immigrant inclusion, official multiculturalism in Canada is based on the premise that national integration is possible, even preferable, without assimilation. This article considers whether such an approach can be successful. Drawing on a qualitative study of Lao immigrants in Ontario, it is suggested that newcomers can in fact be disposed to high levels of political commitment, specific mechanisms of political assimilation aside, as a result of the process of immigration itself. At least in the short term, though perhaps mainly in the short term, the Canadian political order does not seem to suffer for lack of an assimilative emphasis.

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Hoon (云昌耀), Chang-Yau, and Shawatriqah Sahrifulhafiz. "Negotiating Assimilation and Hybridity." Journal of Chinese Overseas 17, no. 1 (April 8, 2021): 31–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341433.

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Abstract This paper explores the ways in which Bruneians who are born into a Chinese-Malay family define their identity, how the state classifies them in terms of “race,” how they negotiate their bicultural practices, and what challenges they face while growing up in the liminal space of inbetweenness. Considering the hegemonic force of assimilation enforced by various state apparatuses, the article critically discusses the ways in which Chinese-Malays negotiate the space between assimilation and hybridity. By examining the experience of between and betwixt among these biracial subjects, the article alludes to the different forces that define the boundaries of exclusion and inclusion, belonging and non-belonging in Brunei Darussalam.

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FOUKA, VASILIKI. "How Do Immigrants Respond to Discrimination? The Case of Germans in the US During World War I." American Political Science Review 113, no. 2 (March 4, 2019): 405–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055419000017.

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I study the effect of taste-based discrimination on the assimilation decisions of immigrant minorities. Do discriminated minority groups increase their assimilation efforts in order to avoid discrimination and public harassment or do they become alienated and retreat in their own communities? I exploit an exogenous shock to native attitudes, anti-Germanism in the United States during World War I, to empirically identify the reactions of German immigrants to increased native hostility. I use two measures of assimilation efforts: naming patterns and petitions for naturalization. In the face of increased discrimination, Germans increase their assimilation investments by Americanizing their own and their children’s names and filing more petitions for US citizenship. These responses are stronger in states that registered higher levels of anti-German hostility, as measured by voting patterns and incidents of violence against Germans.

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Samson, Frank. "Segmented political assimilation: perceptions of racialized opportunities and Latino immigrants' partisan identification." Ethnic and Racial Studies 37, no. 3 (April 5, 2013): 467–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.783222.

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Bloemraad, Irene. "UNITY IN DIVERSITY?" Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4, no. 2 (2007): 317–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x0707018x.

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This article considers how well the existing sociological literature on immigrant integration and assimilation responds to public fears over multiculturalism. The current backlash against multiculturalism rests on both its perceived negative effects for immigrants' socioeconomic integration and its failure to encourage civic and political cohesion. I offer a brief review of multiculturalism as political theory and public policy, demonstrating that multiculturalism addresses questions of citizenship and political incorporation, not socioeconomic integration. We have growing evidence that multiculturalism does not hurt immigrant citizenship or political integration, and might facilitate such processes. We know much less about the relationship between multiculturalism and socioeconomic outcomes. I discuss how sociologists have developed useful models of immigrants' socioeconomic assimilation but have paid scant attention to civic or political outcomes. They also have not adequately addressed the relationship between socioeconomic and political integration. We can, nonetheless, extrapolate from existing scholarship, and I outline two models of political integration that seem to emerge from the sociology of U.S. immigration: one of individual-level political assimilation, another of group-based political incorporation. I conclude by offering a number of hypotheses about the importance of “groupedness” for politics and the relationship between political action, multiculturalism, and socioeconomic integration.

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Lammers, John C. "The Accommodation of Chinese Immigrants in Early California Courts." Sociological Perspectives 31, no. 4 (October 1988): 446–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1388970.

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Most histories today emphasize the overwhelming antagonism toward Chinese immigrants in the initial period of California history. Citing press accounts, congressional testimony, and the diaries of the time, historians have noted that anti-Chinese sentiments rested upon a host of social, political, and economic differences. These culminated in agitation on the part of the white working classes for the expulsion of the Chinese. When the Chinese were finally excluded by federal law in 1882, they had been subjected to a wide variety of racist laws, including taxation, prohibition of testimony, discriminatory employment practices, and inhuman treatment in communities, courts, and jails. But the earliest period of Chinese presence in California—especially in the legal sphere—was marked by notable incidents of tolerance and accommodation that have been largely overlooked. This article examines these instances of legal tolerance of Chinese immigrants. An explanation based on the development of frontiers is presented.

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Drouhot, Lucas G., and Victor Nee. "Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America: Blending and Segregating Social Dynamics Between Immigrants and Natives." Annual Review of Sociology 45, no. 1 (July 30, 2019): 177–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041335.

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The diversity induced by migration flows to Western societies has continued to generate scholarly attention, and a sizable new body of work on immigrant incorporation has been produced in the past ten years. We review recent work in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. Despite differences between the United States as a settler society and Western Europe as a composite of classic nation states, we find an overall pattern of intergenerational assimilation in terms of socioeconomic attainment, social relations, and cultural beliefs. We then qualify this perspective by considering sources of disadvantage for immigrants on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, the lack of legal status is particularly problematic; in Europe, by contrast, religious difference is the most prominent social factor complicating assimilation. We proffer several general propositions summarizing mechanisms embedded in purposive action, social networks, cultural difference,and institutional structures that drive the interplay of blending and segregating dynamics in the incorporation of immigrants and their children.

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Truong, Michael H., and Fenggang Yang. "Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities." Contemporary Sociology 31, no. 4 (July 2002): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3089089.

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Tsai, Eva H., and Denis J. Coleman. "Leisure Constraints of Chinese Immigrants: An Exploratory Study." Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure 22, no. 1 (January 1999): 243–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07053436.1999.10715587.

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_, _. "Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Organizations." Journal of Chinese Overseas 14, no. 1 (April 23, 2018): 22–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341366.

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Abstract The identities of Chinese immigrants and their organizations are themes widely studied in existing literature but the link between them remains under-researched. This paper seeks to explore the role of Chinese ethnicity in Chinese immigrants’ self-organizing processes by empirically studying Chinese community organizations in South Australia. It finds that Chinese immigrants have deployed ethnic identities together with other social identities to call different organizations into being, which exerts an important influence on the emergence and performance of the five major types of Chinese community organizations active in South Australia. Moreover, the ways in which Chineseness is deployed have been heavily influenced by three factors within and beyond the community. These factors are the transformation of the local ethnic-Chinese community, changing socio-political contexts in Australia, and the rise of China. In short, the deployment of ethnic identities in Chinese immigrants’ organizing processes is instrumental, contextual, and strategic.

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Xi, Juan. "English fluency of the US immigrants: Assimilation effects, cohort variations, and periodical changes." Social Science Research 42, no. 4 (July 2013): 1109–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.03.002.

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Sciban, Lloyd, and Lloyd Wong. "Calgary’s Chinese Kinship Associations: Their Role in Chinese Canadian Integration." Journal of Chinese Overseas 9, no. 1 (2013): 59–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341249.

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Abstract The kinship associations in Calgary’s Chinese community were formed to assist Chinese immigrants in meeting their needs, such as housing and moral support, in the face of the discrimination they encountered during their early days of settlement in the city. In providing for these needs the kinship associations helped Chinese immigrants establish themselves, and thus, integrate into Canadian society. However, over time the opportunities to integrate into the Canadian society have increased and the question arises whether the kinship associations have been willing or able to take advantage of these opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether kinship associations in Calgary’s Chinese community are effectively promoting Chinese Canadian integration into mainstream society. Personal face-to-face interviews revealed the records of the kinship associations in integrating their members into Canadian society; these records were then compared with those of newer, non-kinship Chinese Canadian associations. The authors conclude that the integration efforts by the kinship associations are inadequate as compared to newer Calgary Chinese organisations, and that the integrative role of these kinship associations has diminished over time.

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