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Title: Initial Host-Society / Migrant Relations: Implications for U.S. Refugee Integration
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: Research into factors affecting immigrant integration carries important implications for immigration scholars and policymakers. By immigrant integration we mean the nature and extent of temporal and generational convergence between newcomers and natives in sociocultural patterns and socioeconomic attainment (Brown and Bean 2006; Jimenez 2016). Although many studies have investigated the extent to which immigrants and natives come to resemble one another (Waters and Pineau 2015), fewer have devoted attention to whether newcomers arriving under various entry auspices exhibit different integration dynamics and outcomes. A notable exception involves research assessing the degree to which unauthorized entrants incur substantial handicaps compared to those entering with legal status. Because the United States has largely failed to extend official societal membership to unauthorized migrants, their families have been deprived of access to opportunities for achieving socioeconomic mobility (Brown and Bean 2016). Research shows that this has negatively affected migrants, their migrating children, and even their children born in the United States (e.g., Bean, Brown and Bachmeier 2015; Gonzales 2015). Although numerous studies provide striking examples of how this kind of host-society/migrant relationship strongly affects migrant integration, little investigation has delved into the nature and degree to which immigrants arriving under alternative forms of legal entry undergo different integration experiences.
Url: https://www.cpip.uci.edu/files/docs/CPIP working paper 20208 - Bean - Refugee Integration.pdf
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Authors: Khuu, Thoa V.; Bean, Frank D.
Series Title: CPIP Working Paper Series
Publication Number: 20207
Institution: UCI Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration
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