The Dark Side of Immigrant Integration Policies: Day Laborers in the United States

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter J Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Day Laborers ◽  
Worker Centers ◽  
Integration Policies

Abstract This article uses the case of immigrant day laborers to examine how municipalities develop policies to integrate immigrants. In the 1990s and 2000s, local elected officials adopted integration policies to address the issues raised by the presence of day laborers in their jurisdictions. While first drawing on cases from around the country, the study then homes in on the case of Pasadena, California, to examine the implementation of integration in a moderately liberal city. The results reveal that many officials embraced both disciplinary and punitive tactics, making use of worker centers, aggressive ticketing, and solicitation bans for the purposes of controlling and governing an illegalized population. Some policies institutionalized the subordination of the population and heightened its deportability. The paper complicates the presumed binary between restrictive and integrative policies.

scholarly journals Minority Rights for Immigrants: From Multiculturalism to Civic Participation

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Elisa Ortega Velázquez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
International Law ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
International Obligations

This article asserts that according to international law, immigrants do have rights as a minority, and in abiding by their international obligations, States are obligated to implement policies that safeguard these rights and, in this way, facilitate the integration of immigrants into the host society. However, there are a number of elements that make the practical enforcement of these rights and the implementation of such policies rather complex. Thus, a series of international law provisions are first reviewed so as to be able to establish the foundations of our views. Secondly, we summarize and analyze the main trends of integration policies in three of the main Western immigration countries: Canada, the United States and the Netherlands, in order to broadly present the actions and results. Lastly, we conclude that immigrant integration projects fail to respect immigrants’ rights as a minority and that more effort should be made to comply with the international obligations States have assumed.

The Dark Side of Venture Capital Syndication and IPO Firm Performance

2018 ◽  
pp. 429-459
Author(s):  
Salim Chahine ◽  
Igor Filatotchev ◽  
Robert E. Hoskisson ◽  
Jonathan D. Arthurs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Venture Capital ◽  
Initial Public Offerings ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Agency Conflicts ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Stock Market Performance ◽  
Multiple Agency

This chapter integrates agency research with an institutional perspective and investigates multiple agency conflicts in venture capital (VC) syndicates and their effect on stock-market performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States and the United Kingdom. Using a matched sample of 402 IPOs, the authors show that the size and diversity of a VC syndicate have a negative impact on performance, but this impact is higher in the United States. Ownership concentration within a syndicate improves performance, but this effect is stronger in the United Kingdom. Results indicate that the extent of multiple agency conflicts and their potential remedies are not universal and depend on formal and informal institutions.

scholarly journals Literary Processes In America in the 50s of the XXth Century

enadakultura ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Gagua
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Edgar Allen Poe

Above mentioned article describes development of literary process in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. The article discusses the most influential figure of American Poetry Edgar Allan Poe. His immersive influence on art field. Generally his poetry is distinguished with expressing bitter truth about dark side of human nature. His works definitely express sympathy and love toward humans. Edgar Allen Poe is an inspiration for many modern writers, among them is Steven King. Generally Edgar Allen Poe’s works contain different genres, in the end he is genius, honest and human artist who worries about human’s condition.

scholarly journals United States : Good Ideas from Successful Cities : Regional Snapshots in Comparative Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Turner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Selection Of

<div>Our main report, Good Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership in Immigrant Integration, explores these themes through a selection of nearly 40 profiles of municipal practice and policies from cities across Canada, the U.S., Europe and Australasia. In this companion report, United States: Good Ideas from Successful Cities, we present an additional snapshot of municipal leadership and excellence in immigrant integration from cities in the United States. Each of these five city profiles includes a selection of related international city practices to encourage comparative perspective and enriched learning.</div>

scholarly journals Becoming American: Intermarriage during the Great Migration to the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Dribe ◽  
J. David Hacker ◽  
Francesco Scalone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Relative Size ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Marital Outcomes ◽  
Origin Group

Although intermarriage is a common indicator of immigrant integration into host societies, most research has focused on how individual characteristics determine intermarriage. This study uses the 1910 ipums census sample to analyze how contextual factors affected intermarriage among European immigrants in the United States. Newly available, complete-count census microdata permit the construction of contextual measures at a much lower level of aggregation—the county—in this analysis than in previous studies. Our results confirm most findings in previous research relating to individual-level variables but also find important associations between contextual factors and marital outcomes. The relative size and sex ratio of an origin group, ethnic diversity, the share of the native-born white population, and the proportion of life that immigrants spent in the United State are all associated with exogamy. These patterns are highly similar across genders and immigrant generations.

“No Place for Old Men”: Immigrant Duration, Wage Theft, and Economic Mobility among Day Laborers in Denver, Colorado

2021 ◽  
pp. 019791832110013
Author(s):  
Rebecca Galemba ◽  
Randall Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The United States ◽  
Day Laborers ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Day Labor ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Wage Theft ◽  
Long Duration

Day laborers are a highly vulnerable population, due to their contingent work arrangements, low socioeconomic position, and precarious immigration status. Earlier studies posited day labor as a temporary bridge for recent immigrants to achieve more stable employment, but recent studies have observed increasing duration of residence in the United States among foreign-born day laborers. This article draws on 170 qualitative interviews and a multi-venue, year-long street corner survey of 411 day laborers in the Denver metropolitan area to analyze how duration in the United States affects day laborers’ wages, work, and wage theft experiences. Compared to recent immigrants, foreign-born day laborers with longer duration in the United States, we found, worked fewer hours and had lower total earnings but also had higher hourly wages and lower exposure to wage theft. We draw on qualitative interviews to address whether this pattern represented weathering, negative selection, or greater discernment. Rather than upward or downward mobility, long duration immigrant day labors had more jagged incorporations experiences. Interviews suggest that day laborers draw on experience to mitigate the risk of wage theft but that the value of experience is undercut by the fierce competition of daily recruitment, ultimately highlighting the compounding vulnerabilities facing longer duration and older immigrant day laborers. The article highlights duration as an understudied precarity factor which can adversely impact the economic assimilation of long duration immigrants who persist in contingent markets like day labor.

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