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Title: Group Assimilation During Periods of High Immigration: Methodological and Theoretical Issues

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Publication Year: 2000

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Abstract: Since 1965, immigration from Asia and Latin America has led to dramatic increases in the relative sizes of these groups within the United States. Attempts to analyze how high levels of immigration affect the assimilation of ethnic groups have been hampered by the failure to properly distinguish between the native-born and foreign born in empirical analyses, as well as by the conflation of the processes of immigrant acculturation and intergenerational assimilation under the more general rubric of ethnic group assimilation. In this paper, I demonstrate the need to measure not only how immigration has changed the size of ethnic groups within the United States, but also how it has led to a shift in the internal composition within these groups favoring the first generation. More importantly, I show the need to better theorize the link between immigration, group size, and assimilation. While many researchers point to the different social context immigrants face today, fewer note the changed status of native born members of these non-white groups within the US, and how this in turn affects larger process of group assimilation.

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Authors: Sohoni, Deenesh

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Publication Number: 00-10

Institution: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

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Publisher Location: Seattle, WA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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