Chapter 1. Immigration and the New Social Transformation of the American City

Sampson, Robert J.; Vitiello, Domenic; Sugrue, Thomas J.

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“…More specifically, this revitalization perspective contends that immigration contributes to the revitalization of local communities, resulting in lower crime rates (Lee & Martinez, 2002;Martinez et al, 2010). This position explains how immigrants bring business entrepreneurship to local economies, thus creating more jobs and a culture that is favorable to immigrant residents (Sampson, 2017;Vigdor, 2014). Immigration may help to improve the financial condition of communities, thereby contributing to lower crime rates through a number of different channels.…”

Section: The Negative Association Between Immigration and Crimementioning

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“…Additionally, immigration may bolster the population growth with the prevalence of two-parent families, which is believed to strengthen and legitimize parental authority. This population growth may apparently reduce housing vacancy rates as well (Ousey & Kubrin, 2009;Sampson, 2017;Vigdor, 2014). Sizable social disorganization research has considered the vacancy of houses as a signal of strong residential mobility that is highly linked to higher crime rates (e.g., Kubrin & Weitzer, 2003;Silver, 2000).…”

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Is It Dangerous to Live in Neighborhoods with More Immigrants? Assessing the Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Crime Patterns

Han

2021

Crime & Delinquency

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The immigration-crime nexus has been the subject of much empirical attention and research findings consistently indicate that neighborhoods with large immigrant populations exhibit comparatively lower crime rates. However, it is still imperative to explain how these effects take place in different contexts of structural circumstances of communities. This study aims to examine the effects of immigrant concentration as well as its conditioning effects for racial/ethnic segregation and concentrated disadvantage in Dallas, Texas. Results show that immigrant concentration is negatively associated with crime counts and, most importantly, that immigrant concentration moderates the effect of structural conditions on crime. Generally, immigration has crime-reducing effects and helps ameliorate the negative effects of structural conditions on crime.

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Section: The Negative Association Between Immigration and Crimementioning

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Section: The Negative Association Between Immigration and Crimementioning

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Is It Dangerous to Live in Neighborhoods with More Immigrants? Assessing the Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Crime Patterns

Han

2021

Crime & Delinquency

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“…Depending on the magnitude, increased immigration may boost the central-city population even as more established immigrant households suburbanize (R. Sampson, 2017). Similarly, the Great Recession increased the number of individuals living in poverty who, like immigrants, are more likely to live in central cities.…”

Section: Evidence Of a Resurgence In City Livingmentioning

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“…[ Figure 1 here] 9 Finally, these trends coupled with other factors have helped to reduce some of the social problems traditionally associated with urban living and, in so doing, have made many centralcity neighborhoods more attractive places to live. For example, there is a strong relationship between the presence of immigrants and lower crime rates, all things equal, since recent immigrants tend to commit fewer crimes than more established residents (Glaeser & Gottlieb, 2006;MacDonald, Hipp, & Gill, 2013;R. Sampson, 2017;R.…”

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A resurgence in urban living? Trends in residential location patterns of young and older adults since 2000

Blumenberg¹,

Brown

Ralph

et al. 2019

Urban Geography

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After decades of suburban-led metropolitan growth, some have heralded a resurgence of urban living in the U.S., particularly among young adults. So are Americans really turning their backs on suburbs in favor of more urban lifestyles? If so, what is the scope and scale of this urban resurgence? To answer these questions, we develop a typology of seven neighborhood types to analyze the residential location patterns of young and older U.S. adults from 2000 to 2011-15. Census and national travel survey data reveal that, rather than abandoning suburbs en masse, suburban population growth continues to far outpace that in urban neighborhoods. Although young adults are more likely than older adults to live in urban neighborhoods, recent urban population growth is neither associated with suburban decline, nor being led by young adults. So while planners can celebrate the revival of many urban neighborhoods in the 2000s, the era of suburban expansion appears far from over, at least in the U.S. Significant recent population growth in the newest, least dense suburban neighborhoods suggests that greenfield development remains the primary means to increase American housing supply. Shifting this metropolitan growth from the suburban fringe would likely require substantially expanding housing supply in already built-up areas, and bringing urban amenities and sustainability improvements to established inner-ring suburbs.

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“…While increased immigration could reduce crime simply because immigrants are less crime-prone than the nativeborn, there are other structural conditions that suggest immigration may have a more far-reaching impact on crime at the aggregate level. In particular, the immigrant revitalization perspective suggests that immigration may lessen crime by bringing businesses and jobs into communities that have been in decline (Lee and Martinez 2009;Sampson 2017;Sampson, Morenoff, and Raudenbush 2005). Likewise, immigration can revitalize predominantly poor residential areas by decreasing vacant housing, which might otherwise serve as a base for drug dealing and other crime in stressed communities (Adelman, Ozgen, and Rabii 2019;Vigdor 2014).…”

Section: The Immigration-crime Nexusmentioning

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Using estimates of undocumented immigrants to study the immigration-crime relationship

Adelman

Yu-lin

Reid

et al. 2020

Journal of Crime and Justice

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The debate about undocumented immigration and its potential relation to crime continues to boil in the United States. We study this relationship by using two sets of estimates for the 2014 undocumented foreign-born population in U.S. metropolitan areas acquired from the Pew Research Center and the Migration Population Institute, 2013-2015 FBI Uniform Crime Report data, and 2011-2015 American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, to model the association between undocumented immigration and violent and property crime. Findings are consistent across all estimates of metropolitan undocumented populations. Net of relevant covariates, we find negative effects of undocumented immigration on the overall property crime rate, larceny, and burglary; effects in models using violent crime measures as the outcomes are statistically non-significant. Although the results are based on cross-sectional data, they mirror other research findings that immigration either reduces or has no impact on crime, on average, and contribute to a growing literature on the relationship between immigration and crime.

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Chapter 1. Immigration and the New Social Transformation of the American City

Cited by 18 publications

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Is It Dangerous to Live in Neighborhoods with More Immigrants? Assessing the Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Crime Patterns

Is It Dangerous to Live in Neighborhoods with More Immigrants? Assessing the Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Crime Patterns

A resurgence in urban living? Trends in residential location patterns of young and older adults since 2000

Using estimates of undocumented immigrants to study the immigration-crime relationship

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