New immigrant literatures in the United States: a sourcebook to our multicultural literary heritage

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 34-1925-34-1925
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
New Immigrant

Assortative Mating among Married New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermina Jasso ◽  
Douglas S. Massey ◽  
Mark R. Rosenzweig ◽  
James P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Immigrants ◽  
New Immigrant

scholarly journals Contributions of Immigrant Farmworkers to California Vegetable Production

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 879-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Devadoss ◽  
Jeff Luckstead
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Job Competition ◽  
New Immigrant

A major concern with immigrants coming into the United States is that they adversely affect domestic workers through job competition and wage depression. We study the displacement and wage reduction effects of immigrants in California vegetable production, which is labor intensive, and 95% of the farmworkers in California are immigrants. Our findings show that this concern is not valid in vegetable production because the addition of one new immigrant displaces only 0.0123 domestic workers, and wage reduction is inconsequential. But one immigrant worker increases the vegetable production by $23,457 and augments the productivity of skilled workers, material inputs, and capital by $11,729.

scholarly journals Reimagining the Convoluted Plights of Refugee, Immigrant and Undocumented Immigrant Women: Implications for the Reauthorizations of the Violence Against Women's Act of 1994 in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-102
Author(s):  
Buster C. Ogbuagu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Undocumented Immigrant ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
New Immigrant

Background: Violence against women exists, is entrenched and shares commonalities among all cultures and societies, regardless of their level of civilization or the lack thereof. This act, which in some societies has now been recognized, therefore currently perceived, defined and interrogated as socially problematic is committed mostly by men, especially intimate partners and significant others, regardless of demography. Violence Against Women as an aberrant type of relationship interaction exists as a phenomenon that has largely been socially constructed, perpetrated, sustained and reproduced mostly by men. Although, and as a gender discourse, all women are recipients or potential recipients of violence perpetrated predominantly by men, however, new immigrant and refugee women remain at the apex as recipients of all sorts of violence, especially Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Method: This study applied phenomenological interviews to explore how violence, particularly IPV against refugee women, including how the risk and propensities are further heightened and complicated by subjectivity labels. These labels include gender, race, socioeconomic, including undocumented immigrant status and language in host countries and continents, such as the United States, Canada and Europe. Results: The study found that IPV has serious ramifications for the physical and mental health of all affected women and their children, but presents a specially complicated problem for refugee and undocumented immigrant women as they strive to adapt to their host countries and environments. The study further evaluated new and existing policies, including the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and its various reauthorizations, as well as evidence-based modalities that attempt to interrogate and attenuate this aberrant interactional process. Conclusion/Recommendations: It also explored policy recommendations that can be engaged in the sustainable protection of women, already victims of violence and those at high risk, but especially new immigrant, refugee and undocumented immigrant women, who have been socially, economically, culturally and linguistically deracinated by migration and refugee creating events.

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