Migration in the Americas

Castles, Stephen; Haas, Hein de; Miller, Mark J.

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“…Upon returning to their origin country, Piore argued, they regained status. Other researchers have also documented this phenomenon (e.g., Chiswick 1978, 1980; Jones-Correa 1998).…”

Section: The Gendered Decision To Naturalizementioning

confidence: 66%

“…As Piore's research focused on (Italian) men, he did not sufficiently explore the gendered basis of status. In contrast to Piore's observation that men migrants experienced a decline in status in the destination country, women migrants may actually experience an increase in status in some destination countries, especially where women's rights are more fully protected (Grasmuck and Pessar 1991; Pedraza 1991; Hondagneu-Sotelo 1994; Jones-Correa 1998; İnce-Bego 2019; UNDP 2020). Therefore we employ semi-structured interviews to untangle the implications of status, for both women and men.…”

Section: The Gendered Decision To Naturalizementioning

confidence: 74%

“…Yet not all immigrants naturalize, even when dual citizenship is possible (Castles and Davidson 2020). Although the research on naturalization choices is well developed (see, e.g., Yang 1994; Jones-Correa 1998; Diehl and Blohm 2003; Pantoja and Gershon 2006, Chiswick and Miller 2008, Fougère and Safi 2009; Reichel and Perchinig 2015; Mossaad et al 2018; Steiner 2019), it downplays distinctions between men's and women's decision processes (e.g., Vink 2017). 1 Typically, quantitative research on naturalization incorporates sex (male/female) as a control variable, but the empirical results on gendered naturalization rates are not uniform across time and space (e.g., Yang 1994; Fougère and Safi 2009; Hochman 2011; Reichel and Perchinig 2015; Peters, Vink and Schmeets 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Despite decades of research on naturalization, the relationship between gender and the decision to naturalize is under-theorized. Given that women's lived experiences of migration are distinctive from those of men, we ask whether and how gender plays into immigrants’ naturalization decisions. We explore gendered migration trajectories by incorporating Michael Piore's concept of social status as an additional rationale for naturalization. To better understand immigrants’ naturalization decisions, our research leverages semi-structured interviews conducted in 2018 with immigrants residing in California to illuminate gendered decision-making processes that underpin naturalization choices. We find that naturalization is conditioned by gender when women's status in the origin country differs from their status in the destination country. Where women's rights are less extensive in origin countries, we find that both genders value citizenship in the destination country but for different reasons. Women respondents who enjoyed enhanced status in the destination country valued citizenship because it secured their ability to remain in the destination country, while retaining their ability to visit friends and care for family in their origin country. By contrast, men respondents who lost status in the destination country planned return to their origin country to regain their societal position but valued the destination-country passport as a status symbol in their origin country and because the passport provided enhanced mobility and economic opportunities in the global economy. Where status differences between the origin and destination countries were minimal, gender was not a significant factor in naturalization decisions. We point to a fruitful extension of the research agenda on naturalization by incorporating a theoretical framework that acknowledges gendered migration and naturalization trajectories.

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“…Upon returning to their origin country, Piore argued, they regained status. Other researchers have also documented this phenomenon (e.g., Chiswick 1978, 1980; Jones-Correa 1998).…”

Section: The Gendered Decision To Naturalizementioning

confidence: 66%

Section: The Gendered Decision To Naturalizementioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…These studies treat education as one of the mechanisms through which immigrants could be assimilated (Alba and Nee, 1999; Borjas, 1999; Gordon, 1964). Other studies analyze education and migration in relation to the flow of talent connecting it to discussions on “brain-drain,” “brain-gain” or “brain-circulation.” These two approaches basically regard the migration of children and adults as separate issues of the flow from the Global “South” (developing countries) to the Global “North” (developed countries) (Castles et al, 2014: 161–163).…”

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“…Second, while immigrants are often taken together as one ethnic group when analyzing their status within the host country (Castles et al, 2014), what difference does status make between the Taishang in a monoethnic city (such as Dongguan, a city mainly composed of ethnic Chinese) and those in a multi-ethnic city (such as Jakarta, a city which displays ethnic diversity between Chinese Indonesians and non-Chinese Indonesians)? Most Taishang are middle- or working-class people in Taiwan but they are “upgraded” as professionals or entrepreneurs in both cities.…”

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Mobility of the educated: Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta

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Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Studies on migration, education and social mobility are usually discussed in three separate fields. This article presents the overlap of these three fields by discussing how Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta perceive the educational opportunities for their children and the ethnic-based status for themselves. The study finds that for people from middle- and working-class families, migration overseas to less developed countries is a good opportunity to obtain higher socio-economic status and an upward mobility path for their children. However, the opportunity also creates unexpected anxieties. The privileges that these migrants obtain and the anxieties they have illustrate opportunity traps for these middling migrants.

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The (un)making of a citizen: The role of skin tone in perceived immigrant status and support for hostile immigration policy.

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Buchanan²

2021

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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Researchers in diverse fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, and geography have extensivly researched push and pull factors that lead to human migrations (Castles et al., 2014) and the political and economic consequences that migrations have on both sending and receiving countries (Golash-Boza, 2015). However, experimental investigations of the social categorization of citizenship or legal status are scarce. Given the incidence of hate crimes against immigrants of color and reports of racial profiling of American citizens of color falsely categorized as undocumented immigrants, research on skin tone, perceptions of immigration status, and immigration policy is both timely and important. The purpose of the current study was to explore whether people's skin tone affects how perceivers categorize their immigration and legal status and the potential link between perceivers' support for stringent immigration policies and specific patterns of categorization. Results suggest that people with brown (vs white or black) skin were more likely to be perceived as undocumented immigrants and that perceivers' ratings of an individual with brown skin as more likely to be an undocumented immigrant predicted higher levels of support for harsh immigration policies. Taken together, the findings offer new insight into the importance of skin tone and its impact on the separation and stratification of people, informing research on intergroup relations, support for policy, and, importantly, social justice. Practical and political implications for judgments influenced by the social categorization based on skin tone are discussed.

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Migration in the Americas

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Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship

Mobility of the educated: Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta

The (un)making of a citizen: The role of skin tone in perceived immigrant status and support for hostile immigration policy.

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