Ethnic Family Patterns: The Negro Family in the United States

1948 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 435-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Franklin Frazier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negro Family ◽  
Family Patterns

The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 961-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Foner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
First Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Family ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Cultural Legacies ◽  
The Way

This article examines the way family and kinship patterns change in the process of immigration — and why. Offering an interpretative synthesis, it emphasizes the way first generation immigrants to the United States fuse together the old and new to create a new kind of family life. The family is seen as a place where there is a dynamic interplay between structure, culture, and agency. New immigrant family patterns are shaped by cultural meanings and social practices immigrants bring with them from their home countries as well as social, economic and cultural forces in the United States.

scholarly journals The Ties Allowed to Bind: Kinship Legalities and Migration Restriction in the Interwar Americas

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 191-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Putnam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Family ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New System

AbstractNew immigration restrictions in the United States and elsewhere in the 1920s and 1930s made legal entry dependent on specific kinship formalities. This article explores the impact of the new system through a study of British Caribbean migrants. Because family patterns and the place of church and state sanction within them varied greatly by class—here, as in many parts of the world—the result was a curtailment of mobility that affected elites very little, and working-class would-be migrants enormously. In order to elucidate de facto patterns of exclusion, the author concludes, historians of transnational labor must begin paying more attention to the work “family” does.

The Negro Family in the United States

Sociology ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-101
Author(s):  
Ernest Krausz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negro Family

Migration Tradeoffs: Men's Experiences with Seasonal Lifestyles

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Guendelman ◽  
Auristela Perez-Itriago
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Health ◽  
Economic Function

This study examines changes in work, health and family patterns among men who migrate seasonally between Mexico and the United States. A representative sample of 219 Mexican seasonal migrants to California was obtained in Jalisco, Mexico. The data were generated through a household survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The findings indicate that migrants experience marked changes and tradeoffs in roles and lifestyles which are reflected in the workplace and the family. In contrast, changes in physical health associated with seasonal migration seem far less apparent. Beyond the economic function of providing jobs and income, migration performs a significant social function which is described in the context of seasonal lifestyles.

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