Migration and stratification

Social Science Research
Guillermina Jasso

Abstract

Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances - who gets what and why - and migration is about improving life chances - getting more of the good things of life. To examine the interconnections of migration and stratification, we address a mix of old and new questions, carrying out analyses newly enabled by a unique new data set on recent legal immigrants to the United States (the New Immigrant Survey). We look at immigrant processing and lost documents, depression due to the visa process, presentation of self, the race-ethnic composition of an immigrant cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin-color diversity among couples formed by U.S. citizen sponsors and immigrant spouses, and English fluency among children age 8-12 and their immigrant parents. We find, inter alia, that children of previously illegal parents are especially more likely to be fluent in English, that native-born U.S. citizen women tend to marry darker, that immigrant applicants who go through the visa process while already ...Continue Reading

Citations

Jul 30, 2020·Journal of Health and Social Behavior·Brittany N MoreyGilbert C Gee
Nov 20, 2015·Journal of Health and Social Behavior·Jacqueline M Torres, Roger Waldinger
Sep 24, 2014·Canadian Journal on Aging = La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement·Sharon M Lee, Barry Edmonston
Aug 26, 2015·Demography·Irma T EloDuncan Thomas
Jun 9, 2016·Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities·Maria Lopez-ClassAshley McClure Loving
Jan 1, 2015·Ethnic and Racial Studies·Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra, Douglas S Massey
Mar 4, 2021·Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health·Adrian Matias Bacong, Cecilia Menjívar
May 7, 2021·Frontiers in Sociology·Guillermina Jasso

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