Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "immigration"

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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. ...

    • Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity 

      Alesina, Alberto Francesco; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel (2015)
      We propose an index of population diversity based on peopleís birthplaces and decompose it into a size (share of immigrants) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component. We show that birthplace diversity is largely ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Review symposium: Generational succession in the Big Apple 

      Alba, Richard; Foner, Nancy; Kasinitz, Philip; Kivisto, Peter; Mollenkopf, John H.; Rumbaut, Rubén G.; Waters, Mary C. (Informa UK Limited, 2010)
      Inheriting the City presents the results of a major research project on the children of immigrants in New York City, focusing on eight groups, five of which are immigrant groups: Dominicans; South Americans from Colombia, ...

    • Spatial Heterogeneity in the Effects of Immigration and Diversity on Neighborhood Homicide Rates 

      Graif, Corina; Sampson, Robert J. (SAGE Publications, 2010)
      This article examines the connection of immigration and diversity to homicide by advancing a recently developed approach to modeling spatial dynamics—geographically weighted regression (GWR). In contrast to traditional ...