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Title: Race, Origins, and Poverty Across Immigrant Generations in the U.S.

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: The humble origins of many recent immigrants combined with sharp declines inmanufacturing jobs and persistent patterns of racial discrimination have led scholars totake pessimistic stances on the future of immigrants in the US. This paper uses 1980and 2000 US Census data to track the incidence of poverty across two generations ofPost-Civil Rights era immigrants and determine whether this pessimism is warranted.Results indicate that the incidence of poverty is high in the first generation but very lowin the second. The humble origins of immigrant parents seem not to inhibit themovement of their children out of poverty. However, intergenerational advancementout of poverty is most pronounced for white immigrants and least pronounced for blackimmigrants leaving black adults of the new second generation more likely than whiteand other immigrants to experience poverty. Implications of these findings arediscussed.

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Authors: Emeka, Amon

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: Dallas, TX

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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