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“Immigrant ‘Transnationalism’ And The Presence Of The Past”, Roger D. Waldinger
“Immigrant ‘Transnationalism’ And The Presence Of The Past”, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Scholars of “immigrant transnationalism” tell us that the case of contemporary migrants living “here” and “there” represents something new. Engaging with the historical and contemporary literatures, this chapter argues that the relationship between “immigrant transnationalism” now and then takes a far more complex form. The chapter highlights three different modalities of past/present connection: (1) recurrence -- the continued reappearance of trans-state immigrant and ethnic ties linking “here” and “there, a feature, however, generic to all long-distance migrations, whether international or internal; (2) secular change -- the rise of massive state apparatuses controlling population movements between states, and rationalizing distinctions between …
Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience Of The Mexican American Second Generation, Roger D. Waldinger
Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience Of The Mexican American Second Generation, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Concern with the prospects and experience of the "new" second generation stands at the top of the immigration research agenda in the United States. In contrast to the past, many immigrant offspring appear to be rapidly heading upward, exemplified by the large number of Chinese, Korean, Indian, and other, Asian-origin students enrolled in the nation's leading universities, some the children of workers, others the descendants of immigrants who moved right into the middle-class. On the other hand, knowledgeable observers tell us that the offspring of today's poorly educated immigrants are likely to experience a very different fate. In their view, …
Conflict And Contestation In The Cross-Border Community: Hometown Associations Re-Assessed, Roger D. Waldinger
Conflict And Contestation In The Cross-Border Community: Hometown Associations Re-Assessed, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Drawing on a broad variety of field research projects among Salvadoran immigrant hometown associations in Los Angeles, conducted over a ten year period, this paper seeks to contribute to the emerging literature on hometown associations by shifting the focus to the political processes underlying associational politics and the characteristics of the organizational field that structures their activities. We argue that conflict, both among migrants in the “hostland”, and between migrants in the hostland and stay-behinds in the “homeland” is an inherent aspect of hometown association activities and their efforts to create sociability “here” and development “there.” We demonstrate that the …
“Fiddling While The Border Festers: The Dim Prospects For Immigration Reform”, Roger D. Waldinger
“Fiddling While The Border Festers: The Dim Prospects For Immigration Reform”, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
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“Will The New Second Generation Experience ‘Downward Assimilation’? Segmented Assimilation Re-Assessed”, Roger D. Waldinger, Cynthia Feliciano
“Will The New Second Generation Experience ‘Downward Assimilation’? Segmented Assimilation Re-Assessed”, Roger D. Waldinger, Cynthia Feliciano
Roger D Waldinger
Research on the “new second generation” in the United States has been deeply influenced by the hypothesis of “segmented assimilation,” which contends that the children of immigrants are at risk of downward mobility into a “new rainbow underclass.” This paper seeks to assess that assertion, focusing on the experience of Mexicans, the overwhelmingly largest of today's second generation groups, and a population of predominantly working- or lower-class origins. The empirical component of this paper rests on analysis of a combined sample of the 1996-2001 Current Population Survey.