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Emigrants And The Body Politic Left Behind: Results From The Latino National Survey, Roger D. Waldinger, Thomas Soehl, Nelson Lim
Emigrants And The Body Politic Left Behind: Results From The Latino National Survey, Roger D. Waldinger, Thomas Soehl, Nelson Lim
Roger D Waldinger
There is a duality at the heart of the migration phenomenon, as the very same people who are immigrants are also emigrants, making a living and possibly setting down roots in the receiving society, but still connected to and oriented toward the home society where their significant others still often reside. While research has shown that home country political conditions and experiences affect immigrant political behaviour in the receiving society, scholarship has yet to ask how those same factors affect the ways in which emigrants relate to the body politic left behind. This paper seeks to fill that lacuna. We …
Transformar A Los Inmigrantes En Nacionales: El Caso De Estados Unidos, Roger D. Waldinger
Transformar A Los Inmigrantes En Nacionales: El Caso De Estados Unidos, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
No abstract provided.
Immigrant Transnationalism, Roger Waldinger
Immigrant Transnationalism, Roger Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
To say international migration is to say cross-border connections: the ties linking sending and receiving countries are a salient aspect of the migration experience, appearing during present as well as past eras of migration. This essay reviews the sociology of these cross-state ties and spillovers, typically associated with the literature on transnationalism. This essay discusses the intellectual history of the transnational perspective on migration, offers a critical evaluation and then presents a different approach, designed to identify the mechanisms generating and attenuating cross-border connections across a range of activities. Focusing on the experience in the Americas, the paper then turns …
Immigration: The New American Dilemma, Roger Waldinger
Immigration: The New American Dilemma, Roger Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
The American dilemma was once distinctively American, rooted in the distinctive history of the United States and involving a conflict between liberal principles and exclusionary practice. The contemporary American dilemma takes a different form, arising from the challenges that emerge when international migration confronts the liberal nation-state. The solution to the earlier dilemma sought to extend and deepen citizenship so that it would be fully shared by all Americans. However, that more robust citizenship is only for the Americans, who alone can cross U.S. borders as they please. Consequently, rights stop at the national boundary, where the admission of foreigners …
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, …
A Limited Engagement: Mexico And Its Diaspora, Roger D. Waldinger
A Limited Engagement: Mexico And Its Diaspora, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Responding to migrants’ many, ongoing involvements with their home communities, sending states have increasingly adopted policies of diaspora engagement, seeking both to retain the emigrants’ loyalties and shape their attachments so as best to meet home state leaders’ goals. This paper seeks to gain traction on the politics of diaspora engagement by studying two contrasting aspects of the Mexican experience – expatriate voting, a relatively new development, and provision of the matrícula consular, a long-standing component of traditional consular services, though one that has recently been transformed. Focusing on the complex set of interactions linking migrants, sending states, and receiving …
Homeland Calling? Political And Social Connectivity Across Borders, Roger D. Waldinger, Nelson Lim
Homeland Calling? Political And Social Connectivity Across Borders, Roger D. Waldinger, Nelson Lim
Roger D Waldinger
This paper seeks to understand the paradox of large-scale migrant connectivity with the significant others still at home, alongside far more limited engagement with the homeland polity left behind. We argue that, in the expatriate situation, homeland political involvement yields a decidedly unfavourable mix of costs and benefits for most migrants. On the one hand, the costs of expatriate political involvement are higher than the costs that would be entailed when “in country”; on the other hand, the home state can do much less for migrants than the state where they actually live. While the great majority of migrants consequently …
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, …
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
Whether involving ethnographic or survey research, recent research on immigrants’ home country connections has focused on the “transmigrants” -- immigrants who “live their lives across borders.” Doing so leaves out both the larger number who engage in some cross-border activity and those who fall out of the cross-border connection altogether. To broaden the scope of inquiry, this paper analyzes data from a nationally representative survey of Latino immigrants in the United States, designed to collect information on the cross-border activities of money-sending, communication, travel. We first analyze the determinants of each type of connection, and then the factors contributing to …
A Limited Engagement: Mexico And Its Diaspora, Roger D. Waldinger
A Limited Engagement: Mexico And Its Diaspora, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Given the many forms of migrants’ involvements with their home communities – not to speak of the resources that they mobilize – sending states have adopted policies of diaspora engagement, seeking to both retain the emigrants’ loyalties and shape their attachments so as best to meet home state leaders’ goals. This paper seeks to gain traction on the politics of diaspora engagement by studying by two contrasting aspects of the Mexican experience – expatriate voting, a relatively new development, and provision of the matricula consular, a long-standing component of traditional consular services, though one that has recently been transformed. Focusing …
Will The Followers Be Led? Where Union Members Stand On Immigration?, Roger Waldinger
Will The Followers Be Led? Where Union Members Stand On Immigration?, Roger Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Immigration is a source of cleavage on both sides of the usual ideological divides, as illustrated by its propensity to divide the American labor movement. This paper explores this question through a detailed analysis of a 2006 survey of national opinion, conducted by the Pew Centers, which provides the unusual opportunity to spotlight the opinions of union members. The results signal a warning light, as the views of union members turn out to be very different from those advanced by their leaders.
The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners Into Americans In 21st Century Los Angeles, Roger Waldinger
The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners Into Americans In 21st Century Los Angeles, Roger Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Contrary to the forecasts of the scholarship on immigrant transnationalism, foreigners continue to get transformed into nationals. Engaging in the necessary adjustments is often acceptable to the people earlier willing to abandon home in search of the good life; the everyday demands of fitting in, as well as the attenuation of home country loyalties and ties, make the foreigners and their descendants increasingly similar to the nationals whose community they have joined. But the ex-foreigners also respond to the message conveyed by nationals and state institutions, all of which signal that acceptance is contingent on demonstrating a commitment to belonging. …
“Did Manufacturing Matter? The Experience Of Yesterday’S Second Generation: A Reassessment”, Roger D. Waldinger
“Did Manufacturing Matter? The Experience Of Yesterday’S Second Generation: A Reassessment”, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Research on the "new second generation" takes the success of the earlier second generation of southern and eastern Europeans as its point of departure, but with little empirical basis. The hypothesis of "segmented assimilation" asserts that the children of 1880-1920 immigration moved ahead due to the availability of well-paying, relatively low-skilled jobs in manufacturing. By contrast, defenders of the conventional approach to assimilation accent diffusionary processes, while conceding that the specific means by which the children of immigrants improved on their parents' condition remains a matter about which relatively little is known. This article returns to the world of the …
“The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners Into Americans In 21st Century Los Angeles”, Roger D. Waldinger
“The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners Into Americans In 21st Century Los Angeles”, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Contrary to the forecasts of the scholarship on immigrant transnationalism, foreigners continue to get transformed into nationals. Engaging in the necessary adjustments is often acceptable to the people earlier willing to abandon home in search of the good life; the everyday demands of fitting in, as well as the attenuation of home country loyalties and ties, make the foreigners and their descendants increasingly similar to the nationals whose community they have joined. But the ex-foreigners also respond to the message conveyed by nationals and state institutions, all of which signal that acceptance is contingent on demonstrating a commitment to belonging. …
“Strangeness At The Gates: The Peculiar Politics Of Immigration”, Roger D. Waldinger, Nazgol Ghandnoosh
“Strangeness At The Gates: The Peculiar Politics Of Immigration”, Roger D. Waldinger, Nazgol Ghandnoosh
Roger D Waldinger
No abstract provided.
Transnationalism In Question, Roger D. Waldinger, David Fitzgerald
Transnationalism In Question, Roger D. Waldinger, David Fitzgerald
Roger D Waldinger
This paper seeks a critical engagement with the new literature on immigrant “transnationalism,” which correctly notes that connectivity between source and destination points is an inherent aspect of the migration phenomenon. In so doing, however, this new literature highlights the characteristics shared by all forms of long-distance migration and therefore fails to identify the traits distinctive to migration across states, of which the political element is the most important. States seek to control movement across territorial boundaries – exit as well as entry -- which is why defining “transnationalism” in terms of the “regular and sustained” cross-border activities of individuals, …