Journal articles: 'Immigrants’ descendants'

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Villadsen, Sarah Fredsted, Hajer Hadi, Israa Ismail, Richard H. Osborne, Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, and Lars Kayser. "ehealth literacy and health literacy among immigrants and their descendants compared with women of Danish origin: a cross-sectional study using a multidimensional approach among pregnant women." BMJ Open 10, no. 5 (May 2020): e037076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037076.

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ObjectiveTo explore ehealth literacy, ability to actively engage with healthcare providers and health system navigation among pregnant immigrant women and their descendants compared with women of Danish origin.Design and settingA cross-sectional survey at antenatal clinics in 2016, Denmark.ParticipantsPregnant women attending antenatal care (n=405).Outcome measuresThe eHealth Literacy Questionnaire (eHLQ) and two domains from the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ): ability to actively engage with healthcare providers and health system navigation. Range of response options for eHLQ (1–4) and HLQ (1–5). With mixed-effect linear regressions, eHLQ and HLQ among immigrants and their descendants compared with women of Danish origin were assessed.ResultsThe response rate was 75%. The overall trend was lower ehealth literacy and HLQ domains among immigrants and their descendants compared with women of Danish origin. For ehealth literacy, the results suggest that challenges related more to digital abilities than motivation, trust and access to technology. The mean ability to engage with digital services was 3.20 (SD 0.44) for women of Danish origin. Non-Western descendants (−0.14, 95% CI −0.31 to 0.02), non-Western (−0.20, 95% CI −0.34 to −0.06) and Western (−0.22, 95% CI −0.39 to −0.06) immigrants had lower adjusted means of this outcome. No differences in motivation to engage with digital services were found for descendants (−0.00, 95% CI −0.17 to 0.17), non-Western (0.03, 95% CI −0.11 to 0.18) or Western (−0.06, 95% CI −0.23 to 0.10) immigrants compared with the mean of the reference (2.85, SD 0.45). Lower ability to engage with healthcare providers was found for non-Western born immigrants (−0.15, CI 95% −0.30 to −0.01) compared with the mean of women with Danish origin (4.15, SD 0.47).ConclusionGenerally, descendant and immigrant women had lower levels of ehealth literacy and health literacy than women of Danish origin. These differences are potentially antecedents of adverse birth outcomes and could inform structural efforts to mitigate health inequalities.

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Gaspar, Sofia. "Descendants of immigrants in Portugal." Portuguese Journal of Social Science 18, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pjss.18.1.3_2.

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Duncan, Brian, and Stephen J. Trejo. "Assessing the Socioeconomic Mobility and Integration of U.S. Immigrants and Their Descendants." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 657, no. 1 (December 10, 2014): 108–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716214548396.

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Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been (1) rising inequality and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants arrive with very low levels of schooling, English proficiency, and other skills that have become increasingly important determinants of success in the U.S. labor market, such immigrants and their descendants may be a poor fit for the restructured economy and consequently have a difficult time integrating into American society. In this article we discuss some of the issues that arise when investigating the socioeconomic integration of immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants, and we selectively review research on these topics. In addition, we consider what kinds of supplementary information might be valuable to collect to improve our understanding of immigrant integration and of the intergenerational mobility experienced by immigrant families.

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Duncan, Brian, and Stephen J. Trejo. "Tracking Intergenerational Progress for Immigrant Groups: The Problem of Ethnic Attrition." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 603–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.3.603.

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In tracking the later-generation descendants of immigrants, measurement biases can arise from “ethnic attrition” (e.g., US-born individuals who do not self-identify as Mexican despite having ancestors who immigrated from Mexico). We present evidence that such ethnic attrition is sizeable and selective for the third-generation populations of key Hispanic and Asian immigrant groups. In addition, our results suggest that ethnic attrition generates biases that vary across national origin groups in direction as well as magnitude, and that correcting for these biases will raise the socioeconomic standing of the US-born descendants of most Hispanic immigrants relative to their Asian counterparts.

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Berger, Thor, and Per Engzell. "American geography of opportunity reveals European origins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 13 (March 5, 2019): 6045–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810893116.

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A large literature documents how intergenerational mobility—the degree to which (dis)advantage is passed on from parents to children—varies across and within countries. Less is known about the origin or persistence of such differences. We show that US areas populated by descendants to European immigrants have similar levels of income equality and mobility as the countries their forebears came from: highest in areas dominated by descendants to Scandinavian and German immigrants, lower in places with French or Italian heritage, and lower still in areas with British roots. Similar variation in mobility is found for the black population and when analyzing causal place effects, suggesting that mobility differences arise at the community level and extend beyond descendants of European immigrant groups. Our findings indicate that the geography of US opportunity may have deeper historical roots than previously recognized.

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Sievers, Wiebke, Ilker Ataç, and Philipp Schnell. "Editorial: Turkish migrants and their descendants in Austria Patterns of exclusion and individual and political responses." Migration Letters 11, no. 3 (September 10, 2014): 263–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v11i3.222.

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Turkish immigrants and their descendants have become the main target of anti-immigrant political mobilization in Austria since the 1990s. They have come to epitomize the image of the Oriental enemy and the Muslim other. Based on these discursive constructions, Muslims in general, and Turks in particular, have often been described as unwilling to integrate into Austrian society. The articles in this special issue show not only that these discourses and exclusionary attitudes may result in discriminatory practices towards Turkish immigrants and their descendants in Austria, but also that the alleged unwillingness to integrate may be explained by the lack of effort made by the Austrian government and Austrian institutions to integrate this group.

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Antman, Francisca, Brian Duncan, and Stephen J. Trejo. "Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans." American Economic Review 106, no. 5 (May 1, 2016): 467–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20161111.

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Numerous studies find that U.S.-born Hispanics differ significantly from non-Hispanic whites on important measures of human capital, including health. Nevertheless, almost all studies rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification to identify immigrants' U.S.-born descendants. This can lead to bias due to “ethnic attrition,” which occurs whenever a U.S.-born descendant of a Hispanic immigrant fails to self-identify as Hispanic. This paper shows that Mexican American ethnic attritors are generally more likely to display health outcomes closer to those of non-Hispanic whites. This biases conventional estimates of Mexican American health away from suggesting patterns of assimilation and convergence with non-Hispanic whites.

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Andersson, Gunnar, Ognjen Obucina, and Kirk Scott. "Marriage and divorce of immigrants and descendants of immigrants in Sweden." Demographic Research 33 (July 3, 2015): 31–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/demres.2015.33.2.

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Hertzum-Larsen, Rasmus, Louise T. Thomsen, Kirsten Frederiksen, and Susanne K. Kjær. "Human papillomavirus vaccination in immigrants and descendants of immigrants in Denmark." European Journal of Cancer Prevention 29, no. 2 (March 2020): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/cej.0000000000000524.

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Lin, Hsien-Ming, and Yu-Hsien Sung. "Negotiating Multi-layered Cultural Identities: A Study of Pan-Chinese Immigrant Descendants in Belgium." Migration Letters 17, no. 6 (November 22, 2020): 765–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v17i6.1087.

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This study makes use of hybridity identity theory and the dynamic perspective of identity negotiation as a framework for exploring how pan-Chinese immigrant descendants in Belgium culturally and ethno-nationally identify themselves, how they negotiate with various ethno-national identity labels, and how they perceive differences between their immigrant parents’ heritage culture and the culture of Belgian host society. Ethnographic and qualitative research methods were employed to collect data from 2017 to 2019 at Sun Yat-sen heritage school in Brussels. Based on 200 hours of participant observation and 30 interviews conducted with immigrant descendants, the results indicate that cultural differences could be observed in participants’ familial and social life, including education, parenting, and lifestyle. Moreover, three vital dimensions whereby pan-Chinese immigrant descendants negotiate, perform, and situate their cultural and ethnic identity are food practices, popular cultural consumptions, and friendships. Notably, few participants identify themselves as either Chinese or Belgian; the majority espouses a dual identity and tends to place their identity “in-between” the pan-Chinese and Belgian ethnic affiliations. This study further finds that the descendants of Taiwanese immigrants find it difficult to settle their cultural and ethnic identity as they frequently struggle to establish a sense of belonging.

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Catron, Peter. "The Melting-Pot Problem? The Persistence and Convergence of Premigration Socioeconomic Status During the Age of Mass Migration." Social Forces 99, no. 1 (December 13, 2019): 366–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz146.

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Abstract long-standing debate is concerned over how long premigration socioeconomic differences persisted for immigrants and their descendants who entered at the turn-of-the-twentieth century. Some researchers argue that differences exist today, over one-hundred years after first arrival, while others argue that most differences disappeared after the third generation. However, none of this research has directly measured premigration socioeconomic status nor has it directly linked immigrants to their children. I create a new panel dataset that follows immigrants and their children from the sending country through settlement. Specifically, I link ship manifest records to census records to track how long premigration socioeconomic differences persist across generations. Passenger records provide a wealth of information of individuals including the occupation before arrival. I analyze how long premigration differences persist within and between groups. Although premigration socioeconomic status is associated with the first generation’s economic outcomes after settlement, many of these differences disappear by the second generation. These results suggest that background is not destiny for immigrant descendants. As scholars and politicians debate about whether countries should admit primarily high-skilled or low-skilled immigrants, the results from this article tell us whether such selection policies are necessary to ensure strong migrants’ performance in a period of open borders.

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Monsour, Anne. "‘Better than anywhere else’: Lebanese settlement in Queensland, 1880–1947." Queensland Review 21, no. 2 (November 12, 2014): 142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2014.22.

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Until the 1960s, the settlement of Lebanese migrants in Queensland was characteristically regional, with the immigrants dispersed widely throughout the state. Immigrant settlement involves a dynamic and complex interaction between the immigrants and the social, political and economic structures of the receiving society. An analysis of the settlement experience of Lebanese immigrants in Queensland from the 1880s reveals the interplay of several factors, which resulted in a distinct pattern of settlement. Fundamental to this experience was the influence of racially exclusive state and Commonwealth legislation and immigration policies. Additionally, Queensland's particular geography and style of development, in conjunction with the predominance of self-employment and the segregation of Lebanese in petty commercial occupations such as hawking and shopkeeping, significantly determined the immigrants’ geographic settlement pattern. Finally, a less obvious but nonetheless important factor was the determination of the immigrants to settle permanently in Queensland. Whatever the reasons, this dispersed settlement pattern significantly shaped the lives of the immigrants and their descendants.

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Ho, Calvin N. "Talent Selection and the Reshaping of Asian North America." AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community 15, no. 1-2 (September 2017): 57–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/1545-0317.15.1.57.

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Policies that admit immigrants based on their education have dramatically reshaped the demographics of the United States and Canada. In the mid-1960s, facing pressures to open their borders to non-Europeans, both countries replaced previous policies of racial and nationality discrimination with new systems of socioeconomic discrimination. These policies explain the growth of Asian immigration from the 1970s onward, as well as the high levels of education among Asian immigrants and their descendants. Refugees and family migrants, however, added socioeconomic diversity. Recent developments in skilled immigrant selection programs will continue to shape Asian American and Asian Canadian demographics in the future.

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Duncan, Brian, and Stephen J. Trejo. "Identifying the Later-Generation Descendants of U.S. Immigrants: Issues Arising from Selective Ethnic Attrition." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 677, no. 1 (April 25, 2018): 131–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716218763293.

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Evaluating the long-term socioeconomic integration of immigrants in the United States requires analyses of differences between foreign-born and U.S.-born residents, as well as analyses across generations of the U.S.-born. Regrettably, though, standard data sources used to study these populations provide very limited information pertaining to generation. As a result, research on the U.S.-born descendants of immigrants often relies on the use of subjective measures of racial/ethnic identification. Because ethnic attachments tend to fade across generations, these subjective measures might miss a significant portion of the later-generation descendants of immigrants. Moreover, if such “ethnic attrition” is selective on socioeconomic attainment, it can distort assessments of integration and generational progress. We discuss evidence that suggests that ethnic attrition is sizable and selective for the second- and third-generation populations of key Hispanic and Asian national-origin groups, and that correcting for the resulting biases is likely to raise the socioeconomic standing of the U.S.-born descendants of most Hispanic immigrants relative to their Asian counterparts.

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Andersson, Gunnar, Lotta Persson, and Ognjen Obućina. "Depressed fertility among descendants of immigrants in Sweden." Demographic Research 36 (April 11, 2017): 1149–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/demres.2017.36.39.

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GINI, CORRADO. "THE PHYSICAL ASSIMILATION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF IMMIGRANTS." Hereditas 35, S1 (July 9, 2010): 234–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-5223.1949.tb03336.x.

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Autiero, Giuseppina, and Annamaria Nese. "Later-generation Descendants of Immigrants and Scholastic Effort." World Journal of Social Science 8, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjss.v8n1p52.

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Later-generation descendants of immigrants generally negotiate their heritage and mainstream culture, and all the factors that affect the mediation play a crucial role. During early adolescence, the extent to which individuals may identify with the two cultures is largely determined by the attitudes of family towards integration and the attitudes of host countries in terms, for instance, of social rejection. We empirically assess the influence of heritage and dominant culture on teens’ scholastic effort and attitude towards school. The analysis relies on a sample of teens aged 14, born in the UK between 2000 and 2002; the data are drawn from the Millennium Cohort Study Sixth Sweep. The results show that ethnic background along with religion count and that the experience of social rejection has a negative influence. Overall, the evidence shows the possibility that all the factors that help the mediation between ethnic background and mainstream culture by promoting the development of a cohesive identity foster the motivation of scholastic effort.

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Abrecht, Ryan R. "An immigrant neighbourhood in ancient Rome." Urban History 47, no. 1 (July 5, 2019): 2–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926819000610.

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AbstractThis article examines evidence for community among immigrants in ancient Transtiberim (modern Trastevere), a section of Rome that was both socially and spatially distinctive for much of the city's history. The only part of Rome located on the west bank of the Tiber River, Transtiberim was the heart of Rome's Jewish and Syrian communities. These immigrants and their descendants maintained certain traditions, languages and customs from home; participated in civic institutions that helped foster community at the local level; and laboured in institutions that were vital to the capital's urban economy. Though marginal in some ways, Transtiberim was also a neighbourhood where immigrants and their descendants found community and made vital contributions to the life of the imperial city.

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Knight, Thomas Daniel. "Immigration, Identity, and Genealogy: A Case Study." Genealogy 3, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3010001.

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This paper examines the life and experiences of a 19th-century immigrant from the British Isles to the United States and his family. It examines his reasons for immigrating, as well as his experiences after arrival. In this case, the immigrant chose to create a new identity for himself after immigration. Doing so both severed his ties with his birth family and left his American progeny without a clear sense of identity and heritage. The essay uses a variety of sources, including oral history and folklore, to investigate the immigrant’s origins and examine how this uncertainty shaped the family’s history in the 19th and 20th centuries. New methodologies centering on DNA analysis have recently offered insights into the family’s past. The essay ends by positing a birth identity for the family’s immigrant ancestor. Importantly, the family’s post-immigration experiences reveal that the immigrant and his descendants made a deliberate effort to retain aspects of their pre-immigration past across both time and distance. These actions underscore a growing body of literature on the limits of post-immigration assimilation by immigrants and their families, and indicate the value of genealogical study for analyzing the immigrant experience.

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Protsch, Paula, and Heike Solga. "Going across Europe for an apprenticeship? A factorial survey experiment on employers’ hiring preferences in Germany." Journal of European Social Policy 27, no. 4 (October 2017): 387–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928717719200.

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Owing to the recent recession, the German apprenticeship model is once again praised for smoothing out school-to-work transitions. In line with the social policy shift of favouring education as a key means to combat youth unemployment, European Union (EU) recommendations and German national policies encourage young Southern and Eastern EU citizens to apply for apprenticeship training abroad. Yet, young people wanting to go abroad are not only mobile young people but also immigrants. Given the prevalence of ethnic disparities in the German apprenticeship system, the question arises whether employers would be willing to hire these newcomers. Using a factorial survey experiment, we investigate how employers rate applications from Spanish newcomers compared to those from young immigrant descendants of Spanish origin. The results indicate that newcomers are substantially less preferred than immigrant descendants born in Germany. Employers’ expectations about newcomers’ language skills and employers’ interest in training for their own skilled labour force are key barriers to policies promoting apprenticeships abroad.

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Algan, Yann, and Pierre Cahuc. "Inherited Trust and Growth." American Economic Review 100, no. 5 (December 1, 2010): 2060–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.5.2060.

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This paper develops a new method to uncover the causal effect of trust on economic growth by focusing on the inherited component of trust and its time variation. We show that inherited trust of descendants of US immigrants is significantly influenced by the country of origin and the timing of arrival of their forebears. We thus use the inherited trust of descendants of US immigrants as a time-varying measure of inherited trust in their country of origin. This strategy allows to identify the sizeable causal impact of inherited trust on worldwide growth during the twentieth century by controlling for country fixed effects. (JEL N11, N12, N31, N32, O47, Z13)

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Tremblay, Marc. "Urban English and Scottish Ancestors in the Regional Populations of the Province of Quebec (Canada)." Local Population Studies, no. 97 (December 31, 2016): 10–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.35488/lps97.2016.10.

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The Quebec population descends in most part from French immigrants who settled in the St Lawrence River valley during the seventeenth century. However, people from other European origins have also contributed to the early settlement of the Canadian province. By means of genealogical data spanning more than three centuries, this study aimed to measure the contributions of English and Scottish immigrants to the peopling of the Quebec regions. More than 5,000 genealogies were reconstructed using the BALSAC population database. These genealogies span more than ten generations on average. Immigrants of each origin were identified and linked to all their descendants in the genealogical samples. Results show that English and Scottish founders appear in the genealogies of all Quebec regions, although in different proportions. These founders and/or their descendants were integrated into the predominant French Catholic population during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Krtalic, Maja. "Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country." Journal of Documentation 77, no. 3 (January 7, 2021): 663–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-09-2020-0147.

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PurposeThis paper presents findings from a study that explored why and how long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members seek and use information about their country of origin and how they manage personal information about their cultural heritage legacy.Design/methodology/approach15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants from the Croatian community in New Zealand.FindingsThe main findings reveal two categories of information needs related to a home country: internally motivated and externally motivated. Information is accessed through a network of family and friends, cultural societies and embassies. These information sources are perceived as reliable and trustworthy, and able to offer an interpretation of information along with access to information. The findings highlight the value of personal collections as information sources and the impact of personal information management practices on preserving and sharing information about one's cultural heritage.Originality/valueThis article contributes to the discussion about information needs and practices of immigrant communities by offering arguments that focus on (1) long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members, and (2) seeking information about home country culture and heritage, and (3) the role of personal collections and personal information management in maintaining personal cultural heritage. The results of this study may be of use to libraries, archives and museums in designing and offering their services to expatriates of their country and immigrants in their country, and to the wider information management sector developing services in personal information management.

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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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Rożek-Piechura, Krystyna, Zofia Ignasiak, Monika Kurzaj, Teresa Sławinska, Anna Skrzek, Sławomir Kozieł, and Robert M. Malina. "Silesians in Texas and Upper Silesia: anthropometric, functional and physical activity characteristics." Anthropological Review 83, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 261–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/anre-2020-0018.

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AbstractAnthropometric, functional and physical activity characteristics of contemporary adult descendants of Upper Silesian immigrants to Texas in the mid-19th century and current residents in Upper Silesia were compared. The sample included 45 residents in Central Texas, 25 women and 20 men, and 36 residents in rural Upper Silesia, 24 women and 12 men, 54-76 years of age. Variables included selected demographic characteristics, anthropometry, estimated body composition, several physiological indicators, strength and functional fitness, and physical activity. Sex-specific MANCOVA and Chi square were used for comparisons. Descendants of Silesian immigrants to Texas were taller, on average, while differences in other anthropometric variables were variable. All residents in Silesia and the majority of descendants of Silesian migrants to Texas were overweight or obese. Differences in hemodynamic and respiratory functions and responses to a 6-minute walk were inconsistent, while none of the fitness variables differed significantly between the samples. Although residents in Upper Silesia were significantly more physically active descendants of Silesians in Texas, >80% of the men and women in both samples scored below the criterion-reference standard for the maintenance of physical independence in the 6-minute walk.

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Larsen, Edvard N., Adrian F. Rogne, and Gunn E. Birkelund. "Perfect for the Job? Overqualification of Immigrants and their Descendants in the Norwegian Labor Market." Social Inclusion 6, no. 3 (July 30, 2018): 78–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i3.1451.

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Compared to the majority population, studies have shown that non-western immigrants are more likely to work in jobs for which they are overqualified. These findings are based on coarse measures of jobs, and an important question is how sensitive these findings are to the definition of jobs. By using detailed information from Norwegian register data 2014, we provide a methodological innovation in comparing individuals working in the same occupation, industry, sector, firm, and municipality. In this way, we measure the degree of overqualification among workers within more than 653,000 jobs. We differentiate between immigrants and their descendants originating from Western Europe, the New EU countries, other Western countries, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Africa and Asia (except MENA countries), and South and Central America, and compare their outcomes with the majority population holding the same jobs. We find that immigrants from all country of origin groups are more likely to be overqualified compared to the majority population and to descendants of immigrants. However, the prevalence of overqualification decreases with time since immigration.

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Lee, Rennie. "Spousal Characteristics and Language Use at Home: Immigrants and Their Descendants in Canada." Sociological Perspectives 61, no. 6 (January 27, 2018): 874–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121417753371.

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Whether immigrants and their descendants maintain or lose the mother tongue is central to debates about national and ethnic identities and immigrant integration. This is true in Canada, where language is a defining characteristic of the social and political landscape and large-scale migration has contributed to the country’s linguistic diversity. Whereas theories of linguistic assimilation predict mother-tongue loss in a few generations, interracial, interethnic, or cross-generational marriages may slow this process. This study examines whether official language(s) use at home is associated with spousal characteristics and how this association varies by generation and ethnic ancestry. Spousal characteristics and language use are positively associated, net of ethnic and religious context, parental characteristics, and individual characteristics. The movement toward official language(s) use only at home may be accelerated by spouses with the same first language or educated spouses, but this process can be delayed for individuals in foreign-born and endogamous marriages.

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Wüst, Andreas M. "Immigration into Politics: Immigrant-origin Candidates and Their Success in the 2013 Bundestag Election." German Politics and Society 32, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2014.320301.

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This article is about immigrant-origin politicians running for a Bundestag mandate in the 2013 election. Patterns of candidacy, electoral success and failure of the respective candidates and parliamentarians are systematically analyzed. The main finding is that politicians of immigrant origin are serious contenders for seats in the Bundestag, and political parties seem to have quite some interest in their election. It is increasingly the second immigrant generation that is involved politically, and, as the career patterns indicate, it is likely that many of them are going to stay longer in politics. Consequently, a closer look at immigrant-origin candidates and parliamentarians is of merit for both the study of parliamentary representation and of the political integration of immigrants and their descendants.

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Behtoui, Alireza. "Incorporation of children of immigrants: the case of descendants of immigrants from Turkey in Sweden." Ethnic and Racial Studies 36, no. 12 (December 2013): 2141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2012.696667.

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Duncan, Brian, and Stephen J. Trejo. "The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians." ILR Review 70, no. 5 (November 12, 2016): 1146–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019793916679613.

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Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification rather than arguably more objective measures based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his ancestors. In this context, biases can arise from “ethnic attrition” (e.g., U.S.-born individuals who do not self-identify as Hispanic despite having ancestors who were immigrants from a Spanish-speaking country). Analyzing 2003–2013 data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the authors show that such ethnic attrition is sizeable and selective for the second- and third-generation populations of key Hispanic and Asian national origin groups. In addition, the results indicate that ethnic attrition generates measurement biases that vary across groups in direction as well as magnitude, and that correcting for these biases is likely to raise the socioeconomic standing of the U.S.-born descendants of Hispanic immigrants relative to their Asian counterparts.

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Wilson, Ben, and Jouni Kuha. "Residential segregation and the fertility of immigrants and their descendants." Population, Space and Place 24, no. 3 (October 2, 2017): e2098. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.2098.

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Sievers, Wiebke. "A contested terrain: immigrants and their descendants in Viennese culture." Identities 21, no. 1 (August 15, 2013): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2013.828622.

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Comitti, Leopoldo. "Gatos no forno: memória, identidade cultural e imigração." Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura 3 (October 31, 1995): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.3..65-72.

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This essay carries out a reading of writings by immigrants and their descendants. It tries to establish connections to their literary expression, their nationalistic utopia and their ambiguous cultural identity.

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Comitti, Leopoldo. "Gatos no forno: memória, identidade cultural e imigração." Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura 3 (October 31, 1995): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.3.0.65-72.

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This essay carries out a reading of writings by immigrants and their descendants. It tries to establish connections to their literary expression, their nationalistic utopia and their ambiguous cultural identity.

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Kavli, Hanne C. "Adapting to the Dual Earner Family Norm? The Case of Immigrants and Immigrant Descendants in Norway." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 41, no. 5 (November 3, 2014): 835–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2014.975190.

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Neergaard, M. A., F. Olesen, J. Sondergaard, P. Vedsted, and A. B. Jensen. "Are Cancer Patients’ Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors Associated with Contact to General Practitioners in the Last Phase of Life?" International Journal of Family Medicine 2015 (August 27, 2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/952314.

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Introduction. General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in end of life care, which should be offered regardless of socioeconomic position and cultural factors. The aim was to analyse associations between GP contacts at the end of life and socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of Danish cancer patients. Method. Population-based study identifying 599 adults who died of cancer from March to November 2006, in Aarhus County, Denmark. Associations between health register-based data on “total GP face-to-face contacts” and “GP home visits” during the last 90 days of life and patients’ socioeconomic and cultural characteristics were calculated. Results. Having low income (RR: 1.18 (95% CI: 1.03; 1.35)) and being immigrants or descendants of immigrants (RR: 1.17 (95% CI: 1.02; 1.35)) were associated with GP face-to-face contacts. However, patients living in large municipalities had lower likelihood of having both GP face-to-face contacts in general (RR: 0.85 (95% CI: 0.77;0.95)) and GP home visits (RR: 0.89 (95% CI: 0.80; 0.99)). Conclusion. This study indicates higher proportion of GP contacts to economically deprived patients and immigrants/descendants of immigrants. These subgroups were, however, small and results should be looked upon with caution. Furthermore, palliative needs were not included and together with urban/rural the underlying causes need further investigation.

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Aslan, Pinar, Nader Ahmadi, Stefan Sjöberg, and Eva Wikström. "What Works? Family Influences on Occupational Aspirations among Descendants of Middle Eastern Immigrants on the Swedish Labour Market." Nordic Journal of Social Research 9 (January 9, 2019): 134–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/njsr.2235.

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In this article, we examine family influences on occupational aspirations among employed descendants of Middle Eastern immigrants. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with native-born descendants of Middle Eastern immigrants. We present and analyse their interpretations of their parents’ experiences and living conditions before, during and after migration and demonstrate how these interpretations shaped their own occupational aspirations. We discuss parents’ high expectations of their children in relation to ethnic-community valuations of educational and occupational achievements. These high expectations may increase the chances of social mobility but can also become a negative pressure, especially if parents set high standards but cannot help their children to meet those expectations. In these cases, older siblings who possess valuable knowledge of the educational system and labour market can function as important transferrers of resources.

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Guarin Rojas, Eder Andres, Laura Bernardi, and Flurina Schmid. "First and second births among immigrants and their descendants in Switzerland." Demographic Research 38 (January 18, 2018): 247–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/demres.2018.38.11.

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Breslau, Joshua, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Guilherme Borges, Kenneth S. Kendler, Maxwell Su, and Ronald C. Kessler. "Risk for Psychiatric Disorder Among Immigrants and Their US-Born Descendants." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 195, no. 3 (March 2007): 189–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.nmd.0000243779.35541.c6.

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Nacarino, Rodrigo Castro, Vít Novotný, and John Lageson. "Migrating towards Participation: Immigrants and their Descendants in the Political Process." European View 12, no. 1 (June 2013): 167–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12290-013-0260-8.

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Huschek, Doreen, Helga A. G. de Valk, and Aart C. Liefbroer. "Partner Choice Patterns Among the Descendants of Turkish Immigrants in Europe." European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie 28, no. 3 (June 22, 2012): 241–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-012-9265-2.

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Joppke, Christian. "Transformation of Immigrant Integration: Civic Integration and Antidiscrimination in the Netherlands, France, and Germany." World Politics 59, no. 2 (January 2007): 243–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wp.2007.0022.

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This article argues that, beginning in the mid-1990s, there has been a transformation of immigrant integration policies in Western Europe, away from distinct “national models” and toward convergent policies of “civic integration” for newcomers and “antidiscrimination” for settled immigrants and their descendants. This convergence is demonstrated by a least-likely case comparison of the Netherlands, France, and Germany—states that had pursued sharply different lines in the past. The author fleshes out the conflicting, even contradictory logics of antidiscrimination and civic integration and grounds them in opposite variants of liberalism, an “old” liberalism of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity and a “new” liberalism of power and disciplining, respectively.

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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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Lobera, Josep. "Postcolonial Bonds? Latin American Origins, Discrimination, and Sense of Belonging to Spain." American Behavioral Scientist 65, no. 9 (February 22, 2021): 1222–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764221996757.

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The present study examines the costs of discrimination and cultural-linguistic differences for the development of migrants’ sense of belonging to the receiving society. Focusing on Latin Americans in Spain allows shedding light on the cultural and linguistic mechanisms involved in this process. Migration scholars have long recognized the importance of belonging as a key indicator of integration. An analysis of belonging has clear relevance to settlement policies and programs to prevent social fragmentation or isolation of immigrants. This article takes a fresh approach to explore the development of migrants’ sense of belonging to the receiving society by drawing on an original survey data set collected in 25 highly diverse territories in Spain ( N = 2,648). The results show that cultural and linguistic affinity matter: There is a greater predisposition among immigrants born in Latin America to identify themselves as Spaniards, compared with other immigrant groups. However, self-reported discrimination and deficient residential settings seem to be hindering the development of a significant feeling of belonging to Spain, also among Latin Americans. Public policies aimed at decreasing discrimination against migrants, as well as improving migrant neighborhoods, will favor the integration of these immigrants and their descendants.

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Goczyła Ferreira, Alicja. "„Tu wszystko ma insze imię”, czyli o zmianach semantycznych w polszczyźnie potomków polskich imigrantów w Brazylii." Słowo. Studia językoznawcze 11 (2020): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/slowo.2020.11.5.

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The object of this research are lexical semantic changes in Polish language spoken by descendants of Polish immigrants who live in a rural community in southern Brazil. The aim is to analyze the semantic changes which emerged as a result of language contact with Brazilian Portuguese and to state if there is a semantical motivation between the primary meaning (brought by the immigrants) and the new meaning of the lexemes. The data used for the research was extracted from interviews conducted with nineteen Polish descendants. In the data there were found 64 lexemes which underwent a contact-induced semantic change. In 83% of cases there is a semantic link between the primary and the new meaning, which proves that the contact-induced semantic change can be subject to similar mechanisms that result in semantic change within one language only. The mechanisms observed most frequently in the data are generalization and metaphorization.

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Ward, Zachary. "The Not-So-Hot Melting Pot: The Persistence of Outcomes for Descendants of the Age of Mass Migration." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 73–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.20170382.

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How persistent are economic gaps across ethnicities? The convergence of ethnic gaps through the third generation of immigrants is difficult to measure because few datasets include grandparental birthplace. I overcome this limitation with a new three-generational dataset that links immigrant grandfathers in 1880 to their grandsons in 1940. I find that the persistence of ethnic gaps in occupational income is 2.5 times stronger than predicted by a standard grandfather-grandson elasticity. While part of the discrepancy is due to measurement error attenuating the grandfather-grandson elasticity, mechanisms related to geography also partially explain the stronger persistence of ethnic occupational differentials. (JEL J15, J22, J31, J51)

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Tourbeaux, Jérôme. "L’intégration des Portugais du Luxembourg." European Journal of Sociology 53, no. 2 (August 2012): 235–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003975612000112.

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AbstractThis research aims to describe the process of integration of Luxembourg’s Portuguese. To achieve this, we first conduct a summary review of the sociological literature about integration. Once the conceptual framework established, we measure and link the two essential aspects of integration: the socio-economic integration and the acculturation. To complete, we confront the Portuguese population resident of Luxembourg to those residing in Portugal in order to highlight the degree of acculturation of Portuguese immigrants and their descendants with the Luxembourg society. This research has required the use of data from the Luxembourg European Values Study (EVS) of 2008 as we measure acculturation from questions about the values of individuals. We prove that compared with their parents, the descendants of Portuguese immigrants, regarding their native social environment, are experiencing upward social mobility associated with the development of an “hybrid” cultural identity, composed of values both of the country of birth of their parents and of Luxembourg.

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Mclean Dade, Karen Bernadette. "A Dream of Dual Citizenship." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (May 6, 2020): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020056.

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Many problems exist for United States (U.S.) descendants of Cabo Verde (In 2015, the government of Cabo Verde asked in the United Nations that the official name be Cabo Verde in all documents, opposed to the colonial version, “Cape Verde”) Islands seeking dual citizenship. Much of this is due to multiple 20th century racial discriminatory practices by the U.S. in soliciting cheap labor from Cabo Verde Islands, including changing the birth names of Cabo Verdean immigrants when they entered the United States. Without knowing the true birth names of their ancestors, descendants such as myself have no access to proof of birth in the dual citizenship process. Years often pass by as Cabo Verdean Americans search for clues that may lead to proving their legal status through family stories, and track related names as well as birth and death records. For many, dual citizenship may never be granted from the Cabo Verdean government, despite having U.S. death certificates that state that the family member was born in Cabo Verde. This autobiographical case study explores why so many Cabo Verdean Americans seek dual citizenship with a strong desire to connect to their motherland. Moreover, issues related to language, class and colorism discrimination between Cabo Verdean-born immigrants and descendants in the U.S. are explored. In so doing, the researcher hopes to ameliorate the divisions between the current government policies and Cabo Verdean American descendants, as well as build greater intracultural connections between those born in the Cabo Verde Islands and those born in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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Pakes, Anthony G. "Some properties of a branching process with group immigration and emigration." Advances in Applied Probability 18, no. 3 (September 1986): 628–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1427180.

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Batches of immigrants arrive in a region at event times of a renewal process and individuals grow according to a Bellman-Harris branching process. Tribal emigration allows the possibility that all descendants of a group of immigrants collectively leave the region at some instant.A number of results are derived giving conditions for the existence of a limiting distribution for the population size. These conditions can be given either in terms of the immigration distribution or in terms of the distribution of emigration times. Some limit theorems are obtained when the latter conditions are not fulfilled.

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Van Landschoot, Lisa, Helga de Valk, and Jan Van Bavel. "Fertility among descendants of immigrants in Belgium: The role of the partner." Demographic Research 36 (June 21, 2017): 1827–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/demres.2017.36.60.

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