Applying for Home Mortgages in Immigrant Communities: The Case of Asian Applicants in Los Angeles

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela M Zonta
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Home Mortgages

Times, Tempos, and the Rhythm of Fast Fashion in Los Angeles and Seoul

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-282
Author(s):  
Christina H. Moon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Downtown Los Angeles ◽  
The City

Fast fashion is often a story about the most powerful global retail giants such as Zara and H&M. The rise and dominance of fast fashion within the United States, however, areintimately tied to the work of Korean immigrant communities within downtown Los Angeles. In the last decade alone, Koreans have refashioned the city of Los Angeles into the central hub of fast fashion in the Americas, designing and distributing clothing from Asia to the largest fast-fashion retailers throughout the Americas. This chapter explores the work of these fast-fashion families who blur the lines between design and copy, author and imitator, exploiter and exploited. How do their modes of work profoundly transform the material object of clothing? How do they complicate the assumed directions and global flows of design and production in the global fashion industry? And finally, what role does risk and failure play—in a landscape of creativity, aspiration, and imagining—to make fast fashion even a possibility?

Medical interpreters and bilingual school staff: Potential disaster information conduits?

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Brooke R. Ike, MPH ◽  
Rebecca Calhoun, MPH ◽  
Antoinette S. Angulo, MPH ◽  
Hendrika Meischke, PhD, MPH ◽  
Kirsten D. Senturia, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
School Administrator ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Dissemination Strategy ◽  
Disaster Information ◽  
Medical Interpreters ◽  
Informal Information ◽  
Bilingual School

Objectives: Dissemination of trusted disaster information to limited English proficient (LEP) communities may mitigate the negative effects these higher risk communities experience in disasters. For immigrant communities, disaster messages may be perceived with skepticism, and fear of public officials may affect compliance with disaster messages. This study explores whether medical interpreters (MIs) and bilingual school staff (BSS) are already informal information sources for LEP communities, and could their connection to both public service organizations and LEP communities make them ideal efficient, trusted disaster information conduits for LEP communities.Design: The authors conducted a mixed methods study, which included MI individual interviews, Latino community focus groups, an MI employer survey, and school administrator interviews. Setting: To ensure diversity in the sample, data were collected in both Los Angeles and Seattle.Results: MIs, MI employers, and schools are willing to communicate disaster information to LEP communities. MIs and BSS are connected to and share information with LEP communities. Latino LEP communities are eager for more disaster information and sources.Conclusions: The study adds to the evidence that a multipronged approach that includes collaborating with professionals linked to immigrant communities, such as MIs and BSS, could be an effective method of disaster information dissemination. Working with MIs and BSS as part of a wider dissemination strategy would promote a community-based interpersonal flow of information that would contribute to LEP community’s trust in the message.

Community Transformation and the Formation of Ethnic Capital: Immigrant Chinese Communities in the United States

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingang Lin ◽  
Min Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Community Transformation ◽  
Ethnic Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enclave Economy

AbstractIn this article, we attempt to develop a conceptual framework of “ethnic capital” in order to examine the dynamics of immigrant communities. Building on the theories of social capital and the enclave economy, we argue that ethnic capital is not a thing but involves interactive processes of ethnic-specific financial capital, human capital, and social capital. We use case studies of century-old Chinatowns and emerging middle-class immigrant Chinese communities in New York and Los Angeles to illustrate how ethnic capital affects community building and transformation, which in turn influence the social mobility of immigrants. We also discuss how developments in contemporary ethnic enclaves challenge the conventional notion of assimilation and contribute to our understanding of immigrant social mobility.

Why Some Immigrant Neighborhoods Are Safer than Others

2012 ◽  
Vol 641 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charis E. Kubrin ◽  
Hiromi Ishizawa
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Immigrant Concentration ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Immigrant Neighborhoods

Contrary to popular opinion, scholarly research has documented that immigrant communities are some of the safest places around. Studies repeatedly find that immigrant concentration is either negatively associated with neighborhood crime rates or not related to crime at all. But are immigrant neighborhoods always safer places? How does the larger community context within which immigrant neighborhoods are situated condition the immigration-crime relationship? Building on the existing literature, this study examines the relationship between immigrant concentration and violent crime across neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Chicago—two cities with significant and diverse immigrant populations. Of particular interest is whether neighborhoods with high levels of immigrant concentration that are situated within larger immigrant communities are especially likely to enjoy reduced crime rates. This was found to be the case in Chicago but not in Los Angeles, where neighborhoods with greater levels of immigrant concentration experienced higher, not lower, violent crime rates when located within larger immigrant communities. We speculate on the various factors that may account for the divergent findings.

Black/Immigrant Competition Re-Assessed: New Evidence from Los Angeles

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Waldinger
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Black Worker ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Open Market ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Black Employment ◽  
Opting Out ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence

This paper reports on a survey of employers to assess the impact of immigration and employer practices on black employment chances in Los Angeles. We observe a process of cumulative causation in which a set of mutually reinforcing changes raise barriers to the hiring of blacks. Network hiring seems to have a dual function, bringing immigrant communities into the workplace, while at the same time detaching vacancies from the open market, thus diminishing opportunities for blacks. Employers also perceive immigrants as far more desirable employees than blacks, in part, because they expect that immigrants will be the more productive workers, in part, because they also see immigrants as more tractable labor. Any managerial propensity to favor immigrants is likely to be reinforced by the attitudes of the predominantly Latino workforce, as inserting a black worker in a predominantly Latino crew is not a technique for increasing productivity, given the hostility between the two groups. And African-Americans seem to play their own role in this process, apparently opting out of the low-level labor market in response to rising expectations, on the one hand, and the anticipation of employment difficulties on the other.

Filling the Void: Community Spanish Language Programs in Los Angeles Serving to Preserve the Language

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-171
Author(s):  
Maria M. Carreira ◽  
Rey Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Latino Youth ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Latino Immigrant ◽  
To Come ◽  
Language Schools ◽  
Community Language

An extensive body of research documents the successes of immigrant groups in establishing community language schools. Studied within this tradition, Latino immigrant communities appear to come up short, because of the scarcity of such schools for Spanish-speaking children. However, as we show in this paper, Latino immigrant communities do have strategies for filling the void to ensure the generational transmission of Spanish. Although relatively few in number and despite a great need for such institutions, the landscape of community language resources in the Los Angeles area stands out for the range of options that exist for exposing Latino youth to their heritage language. The four programs described here, each serving a distinct community vision for the teaching of Spanish, evidence great linguistic agency and resourcefulness on the part of Latino parents, as well as a clear understanding of the role and the critical need that they envision for Spanish in the lives of their children.

scholarly journals Pay Me No Mind

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Jim Hinch
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Gang Member ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Boyle Heights

The work of artist and former East L.A. gang member Fabian Debora highlights the religiosity of Los Angeles' myriad immigrant communities. Debora paints within the Chicano tradition but, like many young contemporary Chicano artists, looks beyond the movement's historic focus on political activism and Chicano identity. Debora draws inspiration from his immigrant-rich Boyle Heights neighborhood, where religious institutions such as Debora's Delores Mission Catholic parish form part of an immense citywide immigrant religious infrastructure. Debora's work suggests that L.A.'s current role as America's immigration capital has spiritual as well as cultural and political ramifications.

Sinusoidal Cells in Bone Marrow Take Up BSA-Au Conjugates in the Presence of an Artificial Blood Substitute

1985 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 700-701
Author(s):  
J.S. Geoffroy ◽  
R.P. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Iliac Artery ◽  
Blood Substitute ◽  
Sprague Dawley ◽  
Coated Pits ◽  
Sinusoidal Cells ◽  
Artificial Blood ◽  
Left Common Iliac Artery

The pattern of BSA-Au uptake in vivo by endothelial cells of the venous sinuses (sinusoidal cells) of rat bone marrow has been described previously. BSA-Au conjugates are taken up exclusively in coated pits and vesicles, enter and pass through an “endosomal” compartment comprised of smooth-membraned tubules and vacuoles and cup-like bodies, and subsequently reside in multivesicular and dense bodies. The process is very rapid, with BSA-Au reaching secondary lysosmes one minute after presentation. (Figure 1)In further investigations of this process an isolated limb perfusion method using an artificial blood substitute, Oxypherol-ET (O-ET; Alpha Therapeutics, Los Angeles, CA) was developed. Under nembutal anesthesia, male Sprague-Dawley rats were laparotomized. The left common iliac artery and vein were ligated and the right iliac artery was cannulated via the aorta with a small vein catheter. Pump tubing, preprimed with oxygenated 0-ET at 37°C, was connected to the cannula.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document