The Future of Immigrant Incorporation: Which Models? Which Concepts?

Heisler, Barbara Schmitter

doi:10.1177/019791839202600222

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“…Persistent residential concentration of Blacks provides support for the place stratification model or the model of a racial hierarchy (Charles 2003;Heisler 1992). The racialized nature of social organization in the US has lead to continued residential segregation and differential spatial outcomes along racial and ethnic lines.…”

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Panethnicity and Ethnic Resources in Residential Integration: A Comparative Study of Two Host Societies

Kim

2005

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The racial and ethnic structure of a host society as well as its institutional and ideological context of integration shape the ethnic integration process. To examine these forces for residential integration, this study compares three panethnic groups in Canada and the United States using tabular data from the 2001 Canadian and the 2000 US censuses. Two ways in which the social context is important are identified. First, the social context affects how groups are distributed across urban neighbourhoods. As expected, being a Black ethnic group meant being less segregated in Canada than in the US but Asian groups were more segregated, controlling for group characteristics and the urban and regional context. White ethnic groups in both countries were similarly segregated. Second, the social context influences the process of incorporation itself. The effect of ethnic resources, in terms of acculturation and socioeconomic status, was dependent on the group and host society. The results demonstrate that the national context plays a significant role in the way panethnic group membership influences the spatial processes of ethnic groups in the urban neighbourhoods of the two host societies.

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Panethnicity and Ethnic Resources in Residential Integration: A Comparative Study of Two Host Societies

Kim

2005

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“…Naquilo que diz respeito às modalidades, pretendeu-se ter em conta posições de síntese entre modelos assimilacionistas e modelos estruturais (Heisler, 1992), como é a de Pires, mas que emerge também noutros modelos (Machado, 1999;Portes, 1999). Neles se propõe uma abordagem que acolhe, enquanto ideais-tipo, visões do processo de integração tradicionalmente opostas: etnicização/ /etnicidade, contraste, por um lado, continuidade, assimilação, por outro.…”

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A Integração dos Imigrantes de Leste em Portugal. Contributos para a sua análise

Castro¹,

Marques²

2008

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Considerações iniciais: processos de integração dos imigrantesAs questões da integração constituem uma das áreas de estudo das migrações mais abrangentes no seu tratamento. Se não cabe no espaço deste artigo apresentar uma discussão relativa aos entendimen tos que esta noção tem vindo a ter, convém contudo apresentar de forma sucinta o referencial teórico -analítico que serviu de enquadramento à investiga ção sobre os processos de integração dos imigrantes da Moldávia, Roménia, Ucrânia e Rússia.Como primeiro ponto, referencia-se a dis cussão de integração aos contributos que Pires

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“…Indeed, both ethnic solidarity and assimilation are phenomena that are rapidly changing in the US and Canada with many new immigrants not integrating into North American societies given the recent development of ethnic communities and enclaves that are resistant to traditional processes of assimilation (see Zelinsky & Lee, 1998;Price et al, 2005). Indeed, a review of the current theoretical and empirical literature concerning the invasion/succession and spatial assimilation models suggests that both are inadequate to completely represent the complex ethnic and spatial mosaics of contemporary multicultural cities in both Europe and North America (Allen & Turner, 1996;Bonvalet et al, 1995;Darroch & Marston, 1994;Fong, 1994;Fong & Wilkes, 1999;Freeman, 2002;Heisler, 1992;Price et al, 2005;South et al, 2005).…”

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Residential Experiences and the Culture of Suburbanization: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Mississauga

Teixeira

2007

Housing Studies

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This paper examines the housing experiences of immigrants to Canada through a survey of first-generation Portuguese homebuyers in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. The survey focused on the push/pull factors leading to their decision to live in the suburbs, their housing search strategies, and their use of services in Mississauga and in the initial area of Portuguese immigrant settlement in downtown Toronto. This study uses data from a questionnaire administered to 110 Portuguese homebuyers in 1990, shortly after their first move to suburban Mississauga; a sample of those respondents were re-interviewed in 2003. The evidence indicates that these immigrants were 'pulled' into relocating to Mississauga because of their desire to live in a single-family dwelling in a good neighbourhood. Their housing search relied extensively on ethnic sources of information, particularly Portuguese real estate agents. In general, this group of immigrants expressed satisfaction with their move. The Portuguese community in Mississauga is characterized by a form of voluntary segregation, which seems to be partly a result of their reliance on their own ethnic community for information, language barriers to participating in non-Portuguese activities, and a cultural preference for living near people of the same ethnic background. One consequence of this re-segregation process, by which Portuguese people recreate a Portuguese 'homeland' in the suburbs, has been the limitation of their social contacts with members of other ethnic communities that have also settled in suburban Mississauga.

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The Future of Immigrant Incorporation: Which Models? Which Concepts?

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

Panethnicity and Ethnic Resources in Residential Integration: A Comparative Study of Two Host Societies

Panethnicity and Ethnic Resources in Residential Integration: A Comparative Study of Two Host Societies

A Integração dos Imigrantes de Leste em Portugal. Contributos para a sua análise

Residential Experiences and the Culture of Suburbanization: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Mississauga

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