scholarly journals The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Duncan ◽  
Stephen J. Trejo
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Integration ◽  
Immigrant Generations

scholarly journals The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

ILR Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 1146-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Duncan ◽  
Stephen J. Trejo
Keyword(s):  
Population Survey ◽  
National Origin ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Socioeconomic Integration ◽  
Data Limitations ◽  
Measurement Biases ◽  
Immigrant Generations ◽  
The U.S

Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification rather than arguably more objective measures based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his ancestors. In this context, biases can arise from “ethnic attrition” (e.g., U.S.-born individuals who do not self-identify as Hispanic despite having ancestors who were immigrants from a Spanish-speaking country). Analyzing 2003–2013 data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the authors show that such ethnic attrition is sizeable and selective for the second- and third-generation populations of key Hispanic and Asian national origin groups. In addition, the results indicate that ethnic attrition generates measurement biases that vary across groups in direction as well as magnitude, and that correcting for these biases is likely to raise the socioeconomic standing of the U.S.-born descendants of Hispanic immigrants relative to their Asian counterparts.

Cross-Nativity Partnering and the Political Participation of Immigrant Generations

2015 ◽  
Vol 662 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Boyd ◽  
Amanda Couture-Carron
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Immigrant Generations

This article defines cross-nativity intermarriage in four generations of Canadians and explores whether cross-nativity partnering is associated with political assimilation—in this case, similarity in voting and political activities between immigrants with native-born partners and third-plus-generation immigrants. We find that foreign-born residents with Canadian-born partners do not differ from third-plus-generation residents who have Canadian-born partners in their propensities to vote or in the number of political activities in which they participate. Conversely, the foreign-born with foreign-born partners are less likely than the third-plus generation to have voted in a previous federal election; if the foreign-born immigrated later in adolescence or in adulthood, they also are less likely to participate in other political activities. Differences in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics underlie the greater likelihood that second and third-plus generations will engage in political activities.

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