“Just black” or not “just black?” ethnic attrition in the Nigerian-American second generation

Emeka, Amon

doi:10.1080/01419870.2018.1427881

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“…His life transition from China to NZ during his early adolescent makes him realise the growing-up differences between him and his parents and grandparents. This phenomenon is actually in line with an important concept adopted by migration scholars to investigate changing identity of migrant children in the host societythat is called 'ethnic attrition' (Duncan and Trejo 2015;Emeka 2019), which indicates the children of immigrants may cease to identify with their country of origin when growing up in the host society.…”

Section: Generational Differences Internal Struggle and Power Dynamicssupporting

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‘Forced’ family separation and inter-generational dynamics: multi-generational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand

Ran

Liu

2020

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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In New Zealand (NZ), due to the immigration policy change against family reunifications, many 'forced' transnational immigrant families emerged between NZ and other immigration sending countries. Closely tied family members across generations now have limited choice but to live across different national, cultural, and linguistic localities. By taking the new Chinese immigrant families from the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the case in point, and based on 45 in-depth interviews with their multi-generational family members, this paper examines how immigrant families adapt to the NZ immigration regime which does not easily accommodate their cultural preference to live as multi-generational families. It also demonstrates the importance of family reunification for immigrant families in NZ, and the changing inter-generational power relations caused by the evolving process of migration and settlement of these families.

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Section: Generational Differences Internal Struggle and Power Dynamicssupporting

confidence: 61%

‘Forced’ family separation and inter-generational dynamics: multi-generational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand

Ran

Liu

2020

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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“…Black ethnics who are less educated, less affluent and/or have few geographically proximate co‐ethnics are more likely to provide ancestries like “black” or “African American” than their more educated, dispersed counterparts (Kasinitz, Battle, & Miyares, 2001; Richards, 2014). Quantitative evidence for this claim comes from an innovative analysis by Emeka (2019). He estimated the number of US born children of Nigerian origin in the 1990 PUMs, then used the ancestry question to estimate the size of this cohort in the ACS 20 years later.…”

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Patterns of Black–White Partnership: Black Ethnics and African Americans Compared

Model

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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ObjectiveThis paper asks: do black immigrants have higher rates of white partnership than African Americans?BackgroundSome say white Americans feel more comfortable among black immigrants than among African Americans. Anglo‐Caribbean accents, in particular, have been described as appealing. Research finds that some black immigrant groups do have higher rates of union with whites, but that advantage disappears when confounding factors are controlled. Yet, marriage markets have different characteristics. Using metropolitan areas as proxies for marriage markets, this study explores whether taking metropolitan conditions into account improves the odds that black immigrants and whites marry or cohabit.MethodThe analysis pools data from the 2008–2016 American Community Surveys. Black immigrants are divided into Anglophone Afro‐Caribbeans, Haitians, sub‐Saharan Africans, and a residual group of “Other Blacks.” Two generations are created: those arriving before the age of 13 and those arriving later. The critical technique is multi‐level logistic regression.ResultsThe findings replicate previous multivariate analyses in showing that black immigrants do not have higher rates of white partnership than African Americans. Still, rates are higher for the 1.5 than the 1.0 generation and higher among males than females. Among black ethnic groups, unions with whites are least common among Haitians and most common among sub‐Saharan Africans.ConclusionThe findings weaken the hope that the black immigrant presence will moderate the “color line” in America.

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“…Duncan & Trejo (2011) find that as later-generation Mexican Americans intermarry and/or become incorporated into American society, their identification as Mexican weakens; the result is that, over time, an ever-smaller proportion of people of Mexican descent identify as Mexican. Duncan & Trejo (2011) show that this "selective ethnic attrition" extends beyond Mexican Americans to other Hispanic and Asian national origin groups in the United States, while Emeka (2019) finds that selective ethnic attrition also occurs among Nigerian Americans.…”

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The Fluidity of Racial Classifications

Davenport

2020

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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In this article, I review the social science literature on racial fluidity, the idea that race is flexible and impermanent. I trace the ongoing evolution of racial classifications and boundaries in the United States and Latin America, two regions that share a history of European colonization, slavery, and high levels of race mixing but that have espoused very different racial ideologies. Traditionally, for many groups in the United States, race was seen as unchangeable and determined by ancestry; in contrast, parts of Latin America have lacked strict classification rules and embraced race mixing. However, recent research has shown that race in the United States can change across time and context, particularly for populations socially defined as more ambiguous, while some Latin American racial boundaries are becoming more stringent. I argue that the fluidity of race has redefined our understanding of racial identities, and propose several directions for future political science scholarship that bridges disciplines and methodological approaches.

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“Just black” or not “just black?” ethnic attrition in the Nigerian-American second generation

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

‘Forced’ family separation and inter-generational dynamics: multi-generational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand

‘Forced’ family separation and inter-generational dynamics: multi-generational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand

Patterns of Black–White Partnership: Black Ethnics and African Americans Compared

The Fluidity of Racial Classifications

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