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Rethinking Transnationalism, Roger Waldinger
Rethinking Transnationalism, Roger Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Focusing on the interaction between migrants and stay-at homes, this paper shows how the host country experience at once facilitates and structures immigrants’ involvements with the countries from which they come. The vehicle is a study of a migration universal: the associations that bring together migrants displaced from a common hometown. These associations provide a strategic research site, allowing us to take apart the two very different aspects – namely, state and nation – that the transnational concept conflates. In coming together with their fellow hometowners, the immigrants show their attachment to a social collectivity defined in terms of common …
The Political Sociology Of International Migration: Borders, Boundaries, Rights, And Politics, Roger Waldinger, Thomas Soehl
The Political Sociology Of International Migration: Borders, Boundaries, Rights, And Politics, Roger Waldinger, Thomas Soehl
Roger D Waldinger
Politics is an underdeveloped topic in migration studies, a lacuna that derives from prevailing intellectual biases, whether having to do with those that focus on individual action or those that emphasize social processes. This paper identifies the central issues entailed in the study of migrant politics, whether having to do with receiving society immigrant politics or sending society emigrant politics, reviewing and assessing the ways in which scholars have tackled this problem.
Unacceptable Realities: Public Opinion And The Challenge Of Immigration - A Franco-American Comparison, Roger Waldinger
Unacceptable Realities: Public Opinion And The Challenge Of Immigration - A Franco-American Comparison, Roger Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
This paper analyzes survey data collected by the 2003 International Social Survey Program module on National Identity to compare French and American opinion toward immigration. The paper focuses on the views of residents with multi-generational roots: what might in France be called “les francais de souche,” what in the United States would be called “third generation whites,” and what we will describe as the “ethnic majority”.” Ethnic majorities in these immigrant democracies on the two sides of the Atlantic have remarkably convergent views. Majorities of the “ethnic majorities” in both countries want fewer immigrants, rather than more; likewise, majorities want …
Into The Mainstream? Labor Market Outcomes Of Mexican-Origin Workers, Renee R. Luthra, Roger D. Waldinger
Into The Mainstream? Labor Market Outcomes Of Mexican-Origin Workers, Renee R. Luthra, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
We evaluate recent revisions of assimilation theory by comparing the labor market performance of Mexican immigrants and their descendents to those of native white and black Americans. Using the CPS Contingent Worker Series, we examine public and nonstandard employment and fringe benefits in addition to earnings. We find little evidence that Mexican Americans cluster in nonstandard work, noting instead intergenerational improvement in benefits and pay. However, all Mexican origin workers are disadvantaged relative to native whites in terms of benefits. It is only within the public sector that the labor market outcomes of Mexican origin workers converge with native whites.
Home Country Farewell: The Withering Of Immigrants' "Transnational" Ties, Roger D. Waldinger
Home Country Farewell: The Withering Of Immigrants' "Transnational" Ties, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
This paper seeks to explore the importance of home country versus sending country comparing immigrants who moved to the United States as adults with immigrant offspring born abroad, but raised in the United States, the “1.5 generation”. Makes use of the public use data sets from four, large-scale surveys, the paper finds that home country connectedness is limited and that most immigrants view the United States as home. However, the 1.5ers have put down deeper roots and have steadily cut back their involvements in and ties to the countries where they were born. While we still know too little about …
Making The Connection: Latino Immigrants And Their Cross-Border Ties, Roger D. Waldinger, Thomas Soehl
Making The Connection: Latino Immigrants And Their Cross-Border Ties, Roger D. Waldinger, Thomas Soehl
Roger D Waldinger
This paper uses the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2006 National Survey of Latinos to study the everyday, routine cross-border activities of travel, remittance sending, and telephone communication among Latin American immigrants in the United States. We ask how migrants vary in the intensity of their cross-border connections, distinguishing among the transmigrants, those captured by the host country national social field, and those who maintain some ongoing home-country tie. We then examine the characteristics associated both with variations in the intensity of connectedess and with each specific type of connection. We show that most migrants maintain some degree of home country connectedness, …