Immigrant Groups in the Suburbs: A Reexamination of Suburbanization and Spatial Assimilation

Alba, Richard; Logan, John; Stults, Brian J.; Marzan, Gilbert; Zhang, Wenquan

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“…For immigrants who arrived in the United States early in the 20 th century, this generally meant moving to communities comprised predominantly of the white ethnic majority group. More recent refinements of spatial assimilation theory (Alba et al 1999) have shown that suburban residence may no longer be synonymous with spatial assimilation; while in the past immigrants tended to form ethnic enclaves in central cities, today they may do so directly in suburbs. Spatial proximity to the white ethnic majority is thus not guaranteed by suburban residence, nor is it necessary to move to white neighborhoods in order to access the residential amenities of affluent suburbs.…”

Section: Measurement Of Assimilationmentioning

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Is assimilation theory dead? The effect of assimilation on adolescent well-being

Greenman

Xie

2008

Social Science Research

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The relationship between assimilation and the well-being of immigrant children has been the focus of debate in the recent sociological literature. Much of this work has questioned whether classical theories of immigrant adaptation, which assumed assimilation to be an integral part of the process of upward mobility for immigrants, are still applicable to today's immigrant children. This study reevaluates the applicability of classical assimilation theory with a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relationship between assimilation and the well-being of Hispanic and Asian immigrant adolescents. Using Add Health data, we examine the effect of different aspects of assimilation on educational achievement, psychological well-being, and at-risk behaviors. We find that the effect of assimilation varies greatly depending on the ethnic group and outcome under consideration, but that it is generally related to both greater academic achievement and more at-risk behavior. We conclude that assimilation theory is still relevant, but suggest an interpretation that emphasizes a process of decreasing differences between groups rather than either detrimental or beneficial effects of assimilation. KeywordsImmigrants; adolescents; youths; assimilation; ethnicity Recent sociological literature has devoted considerable attention to the well-being of immigrant children (e.g.,

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Section: Measurement Of Assimilationmentioning

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Is assimilation theory dead? The effect of assimilation on adolescent well-being

Greenman

Xie

2008

Social Science Research

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“…Studies using individual-level data to focusing on spatial assimilation and spatial attainment first appeared in the 1980s (e.g., Massey and Mullan 1984;Massey and Denton 1985) and then with increasing frequency in the 1990s and beyond (e.g., Alba and Logan 1993;Alba et al 1999;Bayer et al 2004;Crowder and South 2005;Crowder et al 2006;Logan et al 1996;Crowder 1997, 1998;South et al 2005a, b;South et al 2008). But, as valuable as this literature has been, it has remained fundamentally disconnected from the literature investigating segregation at the aggregate level.…”

Section: Unifying Aggregate Segregation Studies and Studies Of Indivimentioning

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Unifying Micro-level and Macro-level Analyses of Segregation

Fossett

2017

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

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Casting segregation indices in the difference of means framework provides a valuable option previously not available to researchers. It enables them to seamlessly connect macro-level segregation -as measured by the index score for a city -to micro-level processes of residential attainment. At the simplest level the value of any index placed in the difference of means framework can be obtained by performing an individual-level attainment analysis that predicts index-relevant residential outcomes (y, scored from area group proportion p) for individuals with a dummy variable (0,1) for racial group membership. The regression coefficient for race will exactly equal the index score obtained by standard computing formulas. This introduces a new interpretation of segregation index scores; their values reflect the effect of race on the attainment of residential outcomes that determine the segregation index score for the city.Establishing the equivalence of between macro-level measures of segregation and the effect of race on residential attainments in a bivariate individual-level regression model paves the way for at least three important new options for segregation analysis. The first is to give researchers the ability to extend and elaborate bivariate models to investigate segregation in more detail using multivariate analyses. These models make it possible for researchers to address fundamental questions that previously could not be directly investigated. For example, researchers can assess whether or not the impact of race on segregation-determining residential outcomes seen in the bivariate analysis continues to persist when controls are introduced for other relevant individual-and household-level social characteristics (e.g., age, education, income, marital status, household composition, nativity, etc.) that may exert independent influence on residential outcomes.A second new option for segregation analysis is to give researchers the opportunity to quantitatively dissect the underpinnings of segregation in more detail than has previously been possible. Specifically, researchers can use familiar tools of standardization and decomposition analysis to assess how the index score for a city is

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“…The idea that immigrant residential integration with the US-born population is a measure of their assimilation has been a continuing focus of immigration research (Massey 1986;Massey and Denton 1993;Alba, Logan, and Crowder 1997;Alba, Logan et al 1999). Spatial assimilation theory derives from classical Chicago School ideas about immigrant progress from the ghetto to the suburbs, and has continually been formalized in the immigration literature as an intra-urban process.…”

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“…In part, these concerns are derived from spatial assimilation theories, in which immigrant dispersion from concentrations of co-ethnics is seen as a marker of immigrant incorporation on a social as well as a spatial level. Spatial assimilation ideas have traditionally been articulated within a local context, positing that immigrants move from concentrated urban cores to suburban locations as a result of their acculturation into the U.S. (Alba et al 1999, Massey 1986). Geographers and other social scientists have recently suggested that questions of immigrant spatial incorporation should be extended to include other scales, including metropolitan, inter-metropolitan, and inter-state geographies.…”

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Dispersion or concentration for the 1.5 generation? Destination choices of the children of immigrants in the US

Goodwin-White

2007

Population Space and Place

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This paper examines determinants of destination choice for foreign-born and 1.5 generation adult children of immigrants in the U.S. An immigrant concentrationweighted accessibility parameter is included to assess the spatial structure of destination AbstractThis paper examines determinants of destination choice for foreign-born and 1.5 generation adult children of immigrants in the U.S. An immigrant concentrationweighted accessibility parameter is included to assess the spatial structure of destination choice. A comparative origin-destination immigrant-native wage gap measure is also a strong determinant of destination choice, indicating the importance of relative labor market position. Although spatial assimilation perspectives would suggest that intergenerational social mobility should be connected with spatial dispersion, these models reveal the continuing importance of immigrant concentration for the 1.5 generation. Further, the increased model strength and parameter estimates associated with immigrant concentration and the accessibility measure suggest the spatial structure of destination choice depends on immigrant concentration at multiple scales -both to metro areas and to immigrant states or regions. The paper thus presents evidence for and suggests more attention to theorizing the geographic contexts of intergenerational immigrant incorporation.2

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Immigrant Groups in the Suburbs: A Reexamination of Suburbanization and Spatial Assimilation

Cited by 338 publications

References 21 publications

Is assimilation theory dead? The effect of assimilation on adolescent well-being

Is assimilation theory dead? The effect of assimilation on adolescent well-being

Unifying Micro-level and Macro-level Analyses of Segregation

Dispersion or concentration for the 1.5 generation? Destination choices of the children of immigrants in the US

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