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Title: The Effect of Minority/Majority Origins on Immigrants' Intergration

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2014

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ISSN: 0037-7732

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Abstract: This paper develops an inexplicably understudied variable with far-reaching implications for immigrants' experience: whether an immigrant was a member of a minority group in his or her country of origin. I investigate three groups of Israeli-born immigrants in the United States: Israeli Palestinians, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the Jewish majority. Using the US censuses and American Community Surveys, I show that each group possesses different socioeconomic and demographic characteristics as well as different cultural and economic trajectories. Ultra-Orthodox Jews display processes of separation; the Jewish majority displays processes of integration; and Israeli Palestinians display processes of accelerated integration. In addition, analysis of these three groups' background and self-selection mechanisms, utilizing data from the Israeli Social Survey, provides a better understanding of these profound differences.

Url: http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/4/1457.short

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Authors: Kislev, Elyakim

Periodical (Full): Social Forces

Issue: 4

Volume: 92

Pages: 1457-1486

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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