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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 995–1022.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., the maintenance of transnationalism, and the process of social incorporation; and (3) test the accuracy of the NSM approach for recruiting immigrant samples by comparison with the American Community Survey. Our results indicate feasibility, high performance, cost-effectiveness, and accuracy of the NSM approach...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2223–2247.
Published: 03 November 2017
... in their communities by increasing their volunteering activities, including those involving community, immigrant, political, and advocacy groups, anywhere between 17 % and 24 %. Thus, it does not appear that they have become politically disengaged; rather, they have become disengaged from the formal electoral process...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2179–2202.
Published: 27 November 2014
...—that is, a community that has experienced rapid recent growth in foreign-born populations. We also demonstrate that among mobile natives, the neighborhoods that they move to have substantially smaller immigrant concentrations than the ones they left, a finding that is especially evident in new gateway areas...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1147–1193.
Published: 21 May 2018
... across American communities. Focusing on the practice of immigration detention, the present study analyzes the records of all 717,160 noncitizens detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2008 and 2009—a period when interior enforcement was at its peak—to estimate states’ detention rates...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1973–1998.
Published: 15 August 2017
... deviate from those of older adults in their home countries. The analysis combines data on immigrants from the 2008–2012 American Community Survey (ACS) with census data from three major immigrant-sending countries: Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Vietnam. Despite persistent differences from U.S.-born...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 511–536.
Published: 01 August 2006
... and third or higher generations lose ground. Differences in dropout rates by race-ethnicity and immigrant generation are driven by differences in human, cultural, and social capital. Low levels of family human capital, school social capital, and community social capital place the children of immigrants...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 595–620.
Published: 01 November 2005
... century. Intermarriage between the descendants of immigrants and old-stock Americans fosters a national identity based on civic participation rather than ancestry. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2005 2005 Census Bureau American Century American City Immigrant Community...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1487–1506.
Published: 25 June 2018
... of undocumented students attending four-year colleges and causes undocumented students attending two-year community colleges to switch from full-time to part-time attendance. These findings suggest that despite evidence of DACA’s positive economic effect on undocumented immigrants through increased labor force...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1607–1634.
Published: 03 September 2019
... outcomes among Mexican-origin children across Latino/a destinations. Several studies, however, have suggested that these communities may be worse contexts of educational incorporation and opportunity than established gateways. Mexican-origin and immigrant youth in new destinations are less likely...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 975–1002.
Published: 23 May 2014
...Tod G. Hamilton Abstract Research suggests that immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean surpass the earnings of U.S.-born blacks approximately one decade after arriving in the United States. Using data from the 1980–2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005–2007 American Community Surveys on U.S.-born...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 535–551.
Published: 01 August 2009
... have not found immigrants to be in riskier jobs than natives. This study combines individual-level data from the 2003-2005 American Community Survey with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on work-related injuries and fatalities to take a fresh look at whether foreign-born workers are employed in more...
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 309–325.
Published: 01 August 1985
... and over) who immigrated to the commune of Casalecchio di Reno, bordering the city of Bologna, from 1865 to 1915. Demographic and social differentials in overall rates of emigration and their relation to places of origin and destination are measured. The implications of these results for an understanding...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 375–389.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Lingxin Hao; Yukio Kawano Abstract In this article we examine the relationship between immigrants’ welfare use and their social capital, using the 1990 census. We measure community social capital using contact with co-ethnics and coethnics’ economic inactivity, and examine the use of AFDC and SSI...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 283–306.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the greatest challenge for accuracy. Using the American Community Survey, we show that increased Medicaid enrollments stemming from the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 led to sizable changes in the share of immigrants imputed as legal over time and across space. We explore the implications...
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 467–484.
Published: 01 August 2002
... . Rumbaut, R. 1998. “Transformations: The Post-immigrant Generation in an Age of Diversity.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 21. Smith , R. ( 1998 ). Transnational Localities: Community, Technology and the Politics of Membership Within the Context...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
... is that these individuals are subject to similar immigration push factors and share the same sending-country environment before migration to the United States, yet the latter are exposed to English at home, giving them a relative edge in language and communication development upon arrival. In other words, the assumption...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 699–726.
Published: 26 February 2014
...Jennifer Van Hook; Frank D. Bean; James D. Bachmeier; Catherine Tucker Abstract The accuracy of counts of U.S. racial/ethnic and immigrant groups depends on the coverage of the foreign-born in official data. Because Mexicans constitute by far the largest single national-origin group among...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Julie A. Phillips; Douglas S. Massey Abstract We examine the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on migrants ’ wages using data gathered in 39 Mexican communities and their U.S. destination areas. We examine changes in the determinants of wages before and after the passage...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 189–213.
Published: 21 December 2015
...Jackelyn Hwang Abstract Few studies have considered the role of immigration in the rise of gentrification in the late twentieth century. Analysis of U.S. Census and American Community Survey data over 24 years and field surveys of gentrification in low-income neighborhoods across 23 U.S. cities...
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 139–157.
Published: 01 May 1992
... ( 1990 ). Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Undocumented Settlers and Immigration Reform . Human Organization , 49 , 193 – 205 . Cornelius , Wayne A. ( 1989 ). Impacts of the 1986 U.S. Immigration Law on Emigration from Rural Mexican Sending Communities . Population and Development Review , 15...