Browsing by Author "Waters, Mary"
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Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges
Waters, Mary; Jimenez, Tomas R. (Annual Reviews, 2005)This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, and intermarriage. ... -
Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant Incorporation in a Majority Minority City
Kasinitz, Philip; Mollenkopf, John; Waters, Mary (Center for Migration Studies of New York, 2002)Many observers have noted that immigrants to the United States are highly concentrated in the largest metropolitan areas of a relatively few states. Though immigrants diffused into many places that had previously seen ... -
The case for immigration
Waters, Mary (American Sociological Association, 1994) -
The Challenges of Studying Political and Civic Incorporation
Waters, Mary C. (Informa UK Limited, 2008) -
Commentary: The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: Second-Generation Assimilation: Comments on Haller, Portes and Lynch
Alba, Richard; Kasinitz, Philip; Waters, Mary C. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011) -
Counting and classifying by race: The American debate
Waters, Mary C. (Toqueville Society, 2008)Americans are racially classified literally from the cradle to the grave. Their race is recorded on their birth certificate, when they enroll in school, when they apply for a passport, when they apply for jobs, for mortgages, ... -
Dealing with the Past: History and Identity in Serbia and Croatia
Pavasovic Trost, Tamara (2013-02-12)This project analyzes the influence of history and myths in the construction of ethnic identity narratives by intellectuals and elites, as well as the appropriation and negotiation of these identities among contemporary ... -
Defining Difference: The Role of Immigrant Generation and Race in American and British Immigration Studies
Waters, Mary C. (Informa UK Limited, 2014)This article reviews the ways in which Britain and the USA classify and analyse the integration of immigrants and their descendants. While both societies recognize racial differences in their official statistics and in the ... -
Discrimination, race relations and the second generation
Waters, Mary C.; Kasinitz, Philip (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)In an increasingly diverse America, the experience of race and racial discrimination is too often described as if it is the same for all racial and ethnic groups. Utilizing the perspective on ethnic and racial groups ... -
Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City
Waters, Mary (Blackwell Publishing, 1994)This article explores the types of racial and ethnic identities adopted by a sample of 83 adolescent second-generation West Indian and Haitian Americans in New York City. The subjective understandings these youngsters have ... -
Ethnic groups in flux: The changing ethnic responses of American whites
Lieberson, Stanley; Waters, Mary C. (SAGE Publications, 1986)As whites become increasingly distant in generations and time from their immigrant ancestors, the tendency to distort, or remember selectively, one's ethnic origins increases. Distortions and inconsistencies in ethnic ... -
The Ethnic Responses of Whites: What Causes Their Instability, Simplification, and Inconsistency?
Lieberson, Stanley; Waters, Mary (University of North Carolina Press, 1993)This article analyzes some inconsistent or puzzling observations in the data derived from the new approach to measuring ethnicity first used in the 1980 census. These puzzles include the simplification of children's origins ... -
The everyday use of surname to determine ethnic ancestry
Waters, Mary C. (Springer Science + Business Media, 1989)This paper examines the influence of surname on how descendants of white European immigrants to the United States, who are of mixed ethnic ancestry, determine their ethnic identification. It is based on 60 in-depth interviews ... -
Gentrification, Race, and Immigration in the Changing American City
Hwang, Jackelyn (2015-08-19)This dissertation examines how gentrification—a class transformation—unfolds along racial and ethnic lines. Using a new conceptual framework, considering the city-level context of immigration and residential segregation, ... -
(Hiding) in Plain Sight: How Class Matters Differently Among Low-Income Students in Suburban Schools
Zhu, Queenie X. (2016-05-18)U.S. suburbia is rapidly changing, becoming home to increasing numbers of poor families and immigrants. However, traditionally disadvantaged students who attend well-resourced middle-class suburban schools have been largely ... -
Immigrant dreams and American realities: The causes and consequences of the ethnic labor market in American cities
Waters, Mary C. (SAGE Publications, 1999) -
Immigrants and African Americans
Waters, Mary C.; Kasinitz, Philip; Asad, Asad Lugman (Annual Reviews, 2014)We examine how recent immigration to the United States has affected African Americans. We first review the research on the growing diversity within the black population, driven largely by the presence of black immigrants ... -
Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States
Waters, Mary; Eschbach, Karl (Annual Reviews, 1995)This review examines research about current levels and recent changes in ethnic and racial stratification in the United States. Research about ethnic inequality emphasizes that economic stagnation and restructuring are ... -
Immigration, intermarriage, and the challenges of measuring racial/ethnic identities
Waters, Mary C. (2000)This commentary reviews recent demographic trends in immigration and intermarriage that contribute to the complexity of measuring race and ethnicity. The census question on ancestry is proposed as a possible model for what ... -
The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the mental and physical health of low-income parents in New Orleans.
Rhodes, Jean; Chan, Christian; Paxson, Christina; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Waters, Mary C.; Fussell, Elizabeth (American Psychological Association (APA), 2010)The purpose of this study was to document changes in mental and physical health among 392 low-income parents exposed to Hurricane Katrina and to explore how hurricanerelated stressors and loss relate to post-Katrina ...