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Title: Differences in NativeBorn and Immigrant Co-resident Grandparent Households
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2011
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Abstract: We use data from the 2007 American Community Survey to investigate differences in co-resident grandparent family structure between the native born and the foreign born in the United States (N=40,652). Whereas nuclear families are the norm in Europe and thus in European-origin families in the U.S., other cultures stress the importance of the extended family, familism, and/or filial piety. Given socioeconomic and cultural differences in immigrant families, we hypothesize that 1) co-residential grandparent families will be more common among immigrants and among native-born racial and/ethnic minority groups; 2) immigrant grandparent co-resident families will be more likely to be maintained by parents (sandwich generation); 3) sandwich generation families will be more prevalent among immigrants of Asian origin than among other immigrants, and; 4) these differences will exist net of length of time in the U.S., citizenship status, English language proficiency, SES, and other factors. Our results confirm each of these hypotheses.
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Authors: Florian, Sandra; Jayasundera, Radheeka R.; Casper, Lynne M.
Conference Name: Population Association of America
Publisher Location: Washington, D.C.
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Other
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