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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. …