David M. Reimers
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199769063
- eISBN:
- 9780199896851
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199769063.003.0015
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This chapter describes the economic and cultural struggles of immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Mexico in the age of industrialization. In order to deal with the trauma of relocation and economic ...
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This chapter describes the economic and cultural struggles of immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Mexico in the age of industrialization. In order to deal with the trauma of relocation and economic hardship, many immigrants formed associations that held collective savings, provided insurance, and performed charitable functions among the immigrant communities. This shows how immigrants participated in the long-standing American tradition of voluntary association but also how immigrant populations injected into American economic culture the practices of mutual aid and collective security that redefined thrift for a new century and a new citizenry.Less
This chapter describes the economic and cultural struggles of immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Mexico in the age of industrialization. In order to deal with the trauma of relocation and economic hardship, many immigrants formed associations that held collective savings, provided insurance, and performed charitable functions among the immigrant communities. This shows how immigrants participated in the long-standing American tradition of voluntary association but also how immigrant populations injected into American economic culture the practices of mutual aid and collective security that redefined thrift for a new century and a new citizenry.
Manuel Pastor, Juan De Lara, and Rachel Rosner
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501702662
- eISBN:
- 9781501703959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501702662.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter considers the city and county of Los Angeles, a place where immigrant communities have built their power through social movements that are now reshaping the regional political landscape. ...
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This chapter considers the city and county of Los Angeles, a place where immigrant communities have built their power through social movements that are now reshaping the regional political landscape. Through their participation in broader multi-issue, multiethnic coalitions oriented toward leadership development, community organizing, and pragmatic policy change, these actors have helped press policy makers and secured wins for immigrant communities in policy arenas from labor to education. While Los Angeles may appear to have less-visible institutions for immigrant integration than do other regions, these social movements have increased the political penalties for anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions by integrating with the region's movement for progressive change.Less
This chapter considers the city and county of Los Angeles, a place where immigrant communities have built their power through social movements that are now reshaping the regional political landscape. Through their participation in broader multi-issue, multiethnic coalitions oriented toward leadership development, community organizing, and pragmatic policy change, these actors have helped press policy makers and secured wins for immigrant communities in policy arenas from labor to education. While Los Angeles may appear to have less-visible institutions for immigrant integration than do other regions, these social movements have increased the political penalties for anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions by integrating with the region's movement for progressive change.
Ellen D. Wu
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691157825
- eISBN:
- 9781400848874
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691157825.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the “yellow peril” to “model minorities”—peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, ...
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This book tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the “yellow peril” to “model minorities”—peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values—in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As the book shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, the book provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. It highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. It also demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaiʻi statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, the book reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.Less
This book tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the “yellow peril” to “model minorities”—peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values—in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As the book shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, the book provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. It highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. It also demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaiʻi statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, the book reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
Siniša Zrinšcak
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426444
- eISBN:
- 9781447302797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426444.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter presents a theoretical discussion that is relevant for the study of the integration strategies of local immigrant communities. It shows basic information about the Welfare and Values in ...
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This chapter presents a theoretical discussion that is relevant for the study of the integration strategies of local immigrant communities. It shows basic information about the Welfare and Values in Europe (WAVE) research project, which constitutes an empirical base for the chapter. The empirical findings, which deal with the role of immigrant social networks, and the interpretation of empirical findings about the role of social networks, are discussed in details. The main findings are summarised in the last section.Less
This chapter presents a theoretical discussion that is relevant for the study of the integration strategies of local immigrant communities. It shows basic information about the Welfare and Values in Europe (WAVE) research project, which constitutes an empirical base for the chapter. The empirical findings, which deal with the role of immigrant social networks, and the interpretation of empirical findings about the role of social networks, are discussed in details. The main findings are summarised in the last section.
Dalia Abdelhady
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814707333
- eISBN:
- 9780814705452
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814707333.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter addresses community networks and attachments, specifically diasporic ones, and illustrates how they shape and reshape their homeland, host societies, and the larger diaspora through ...
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This chapter addresses community networks and attachments, specifically diasporic ones, and illustrates how they shape and reshape their homeland, host societies, and the larger diaspora through links and connections in a global world. Transnationalism highlights immigrants' involvement in both the homeland and host societies. Lebanese immigrants, however, share an awareness of and connections with other Lebanese immigrants around the world that differentiate a diaspora from a transnational community. Furthermore, their desire to effect social change in their different societies in turn leads them to group around issues and shared dispositions instead of traditional ethnic communities. In line with the narratives of diasporic identities and cosmopolitan conceptions of citizenship, respondents in this study demonstrate global forms of belonging that consequently understand their immigrant communities in non-territorial terms.Less
This chapter addresses community networks and attachments, specifically diasporic ones, and illustrates how they shape and reshape their homeland, host societies, and the larger diaspora through links and connections in a global world. Transnationalism highlights immigrants' involvement in both the homeland and host societies. Lebanese immigrants, however, share an awareness of and connections with other Lebanese immigrants around the world that differentiate a diaspora from a transnational community. Furthermore, their desire to effect social change in their different societies in turn leads them to group around issues and shared dispositions instead of traditional ethnic communities. In line with the narratives of diasporic identities and cosmopolitan conceptions of citizenship, respondents in this study demonstrate global forms of belonging that consequently understand their immigrant communities in non-territorial terms.
Ana Maria Nieto and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199943913
- eISBN:
- 9780199354689
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199943913.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This chapter addresses three common limitations in the literature on programs and policies for children in immigrant families: assuming that parenting practices within the family are the primary ...
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This chapter addresses three common limitations in the literature on programs and policies for children in immigrant families: assuming that parenting practices within the family are the primary locus for developmental intervention; assuming that, as a society, we can enhance the well-being of children in immigrant families without addressing the political incorporation of their parents; and assuming that policy and program innovations to benefit these children should be researcher-driven. This chapter identifies particularly innovative yet overlooked approaches that strengthen social networks and develop political capital in immigrant communities, as well as research efforts that approach immigrant communities as competent, knowledgeable, and capable of informing policy and program design and evaluation.Less
This chapter addresses three common limitations in the literature on programs and policies for children in immigrant families: assuming that parenting practices within the family are the primary locus for developmental intervention; assuming that, as a society, we can enhance the well-being of children in immigrant families without addressing the political incorporation of their parents; and assuming that policy and program innovations to benefit these children should be researcher-driven. This chapter identifies particularly innovative yet overlooked approaches that strengthen social networks and develop political capital in immigrant communities, as well as research efforts that approach immigrant communities as competent, knowledgeable, and capable of informing policy and program design and evaluation.
Peter Levine
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195085556
- eISBN:
- 9780199854042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195085556.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of sport in helping East European Jewish immigrants during the first half of the 20th century adopt to American ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of sport in helping East European Jewish immigrants during the first half of the 20th century adopt to American life. This book offers insights into early debate within the Jewish immigrant community about the propriety and purpose of sport and how to establish its attraction to second-generation youth. It discusses the reminiscences of former athletes about the role of sport, both as symbol and actual experience, in the ongoing process of assimilation.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of sport in helping East European Jewish immigrants during the first half of the 20th century adopt to American life. This book offers insights into early debate within the Jewish immigrant community about the propriety and purpose of sport and how to establish its attraction to second-generation youth. It discusses the reminiscences of former athletes about the role of sport, both as symbol and actual experience, in the ongoing process of assimilation.
Ana Aparicio
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029252
- eISBN:
- 9780813039091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029252.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter provides a chronological account of major organizing trends in Washington Heights in New York City, focusing on developments since the 1980s. It challenges the transnational framework ...
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This chapter provides a chronological account of major organizing trends in Washington Heights in New York City, focusing on developments since the 1980s. It challenges the transnational framework used to describe the Dominican immigrant community and analyses the development of community power in conjunction with the collaborations of Dominican-Americans with other people of color. It also describes the factors that allowed Dominicans to imagine a Dominican political space developed in consultation and in solidarity with other organizers of color in New York.Less
This chapter provides a chronological account of major organizing trends in Washington Heights in New York City, focusing on developments since the 1980s. It challenges the transnational framework used to describe the Dominican immigrant community and analyses the development of community power in conjunction with the collaborations of Dominican-Americans with other people of color. It also describes the factors that allowed Dominicans to imagine a Dominican political space developed in consultation and in solidarity with other organizers of color in New York.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814768013
- eISBN:
- 9780814768334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814768013.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This chapter focuses on the role of social workers in safety net hospitals and clinics who work with low-income immigrant communities in California. In particular, it discusses how the federal and ...
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This chapter focuses on the role of social workers in safety net hospitals and clinics who work with low-income immigrant communities in California. In particular, it discusses how the federal and state policies outlined in earlier chapters have affected social workers in health care settings as they find themselves in a delicate dilemma trying to uphold their obligation to “First, do no harm… ” while fighting for their own existence. Social workers who work in these safety net health clinics and hospitals find themselves in a difficult position as they try to allay their patients' fears while battling their own financial uncertainties in a highly competitive health care market for prenatal care patients eligible for Medi-Cal. Their experiences provide important insights into the everyday, messy realities of policy implementation.Less
This chapter focuses on the role of social workers in safety net hospitals and clinics who work with low-income immigrant communities in California. In particular, it discusses how the federal and state policies outlined in earlier chapters have affected social workers in health care settings as they find themselves in a delicate dilemma trying to uphold their obligation to “First, do no harm… ” while fighting for their own existence. Social workers who work in these safety net health clinics and hospitals find themselves in a difficult position as they try to allay their patients' fears while battling their own financial uncertainties in a highly competitive health care market for prenatal care patients eligible for Medi-Cal. Their experiences provide important insights into the everyday, messy realities of policy implementation.
Lynn Stephen
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813033327
- eISBN:
- 9780813038391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813033327.003.0017
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter discusses the ways that women from rural transborder migrant and immigrant communities are using bifocal vision to guide their participation in local, regional, and cross-border ...
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This chapter discusses the ways that women from rural transborder migrant and immigrant communities are using bifocal vision to guide their participation in local, regional, and cross-border organizations. It requires a reconceptualization of the ideas about communities in terms of how they function in relation to multiple sites. It also highlights the case of women from the Mixtec region of Oaxaca and their organizing efforts there and in the state of Oregon.Less
This chapter discusses the ways that women from rural transborder migrant and immigrant communities are using bifocal vision to guide their participation in local, regional, and cross-border organizations. It requires a reconceptualization of the ideas about communities in terms of how they function in relation to multiple sites. It also highlights the case of women from the Mixtec region of Oaxaca and their organizing efforts there and in the state of Oregon.
Heath Brown
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501704833
- eISBN:
- 9781501705922
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501704833.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter extends the analysis from the previous chapter to the second dimension of advocacy and election: venue choice. This second half of the reflective electoral representation theory argues ...
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This chapter extends the analysis from the previous chapter to the second dimension of advocacy and election: venue choice. This second half of the reflective electoral representation theory argues that these organizations next look to the political and power position of immigrants to make a strategic decision about where to focus an electoral agenda. The chapter presents an analysis of the factors related to an immigrant-serving nonprofit engaging in elections primarily at the national, state, or local level. The chapter shows that when dramatic local events occur, such as a hate crime, nonprofits tend to focus their work at that level rather than at the state or national level; but when the size of the local immigrant community is large, the group will focus more on the state or national level.Less
This chapter extends the analysis from the previous chapter to the second dimension of advocacy and election: venue choice. This second half of the reflective electoral representation theory argues that these organizations next look to the political and power position of immigrants to make a strategic decision about where to focus an electoral agenda. The chapter presents an analysis of the factors related to an immigrant-serving nonprofit engaging in elections primarily at the national, state, or local level. The chapter shows that when dramatic local events occur, such as a hate crime, nonprofits tend to focus their work at that level rather than at the state or national level; but when the size of the local immigrant community is large, the group will focus more on the state or national level.
Prema A. Kurien
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479804757
- eISBN:
- 9781479845477
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479804757.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The conclusion provides an overview of what the Mar Thoma case teaches us regarding the types of changes globalization is bringing about in Christian immigrant communities in the United States, and ...
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The conclusion provides an overview of what the Mar Thoma case teaches us regarding the types of changes globalization is bringing about in Christian immigrant communities in the United States, and in Christian churches in the Global South. It examines the impact of transnationalism on the Mar Thoma American denomination and community, specifically how the Kerala background of the community and the history of the church in Kerala impact the immigrant church. It also looks at how contemporary shifts in the understanding and practice of religion and ethnicity in Western societies impact immigrant communities and churches in the United States, the incorporation of immigrants of Christian backgrounds into American society, and evangelical Christianity in America. Finally, it discusses how large-scale out-migration and the global networks facilitated by international migrants affect Christianity in the Global South. The chapter concludes with an overview of how religious traditions are changed through global movement.Less
The conclusion provides an overview of what the Mar Thoma case teaches us regarding the types of changes globalization is bringing about in Christian immigrant communities in the United States, and in Christian churches in the Global South. It examines the impact of transnationalism on the Mar Thoma American denomination and community, specifically how the Kerala background of the community and the history of the church in Kerala impact the immigrant church. It also looks at how contemporary shifts in the understanding and practice of religion and ethnicity in Western societies impact immigrant communities and churches in the United States, the incorporation of immigrants of Christian backgrounds into American society, and evangelical Christianity in America. Finally, it discusses how large-scale out-migration and the global networks facilitated by international migrants affect Christianity in the Global South. The chapter concludes with an overview of how religious traditions are changed through global movement.
Walter Armbrust (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520219250
- eISBN:
- 9780520923096
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520219250.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Cultural Anthropology
This chapter studies popular music in the Iranian community of Los Angeles. It describes the community as an “exile community,” where the members cannot regularly move back and forth between their ...
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This chapter studies popular music in the Iranian community of Los Angeles. It describes the community as an “exile community,” where the members cannot regularly move back and forth between their home country and the United States. The chapter notes that entire genres of Iranian popular music essentially moved offshore after the Islamic Revolution, and that the market for this type of music is the Iranian-American immigrant community, as well as Iran itself. The most successful music genres in Los Angeles are the traditional vernacular genres, “classical” music, and modernized variants of Iranian music. The chapter also determines that the decisive factor in this autonomous Iranian production in the United States is the considerable sense of isolation the Iranian community feels due to the political reality of the Islamic Revolution.Less
This chapter studies popular music in the Iranian community of Los Angeles. It describes the community as an “exile community,” where the members cannot regularly move back and forth between their home country and the United States. The chapter notes that entire genres of Iranian popular music essentially moved offshore after the Islamic Revolution, and that the market for this type of music is the Iranian-American immigrant community, as well as Iran itself. The most successful music genres in Los Angeles are the traditional vernacular genres, “classical” music, and modernized variants of Iranian music. The chapter also determines that the decisive factor in this autonomous Iranian production in the United States is the considerable sense of isolation the Iranian community feels due to the political reality of the Islamic Revolution.
Karl F. Seidman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199945511
- eISBN:
- 9780199333189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945511.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
At New Orleans’ eastern edge, Vietnamese refugees settled and built a community in the Village de L’Est neighborhood. This chapter explains how this tight- knit community rebuilt after Katrina with ...
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At New Orleans’ eastern edge, Vietnamese refugees settled and built a community in the Village de L’Est neighborhood. This chapter explains how this tight- knit community rebuilt after Katrina with the strong leadership of its Catholic priest. It details efforts to help homeowners and businesses rebuild while fighting to close an adjacent landfill. Aided by the national Vietnamese-American community and other partners, the church formed a community development corporation to assist businesses and residents and pursue development projects. Despite difficulties completing real estate projects, grassroots rebuilding contributed to a high rate of homeowner recovery, the return and expansion of local businesses, a new charter school and two new health clinics. However, repopulation rates for renters and black households were low and many blighted properties remained. Greater political and civic capacity emerged from recovery efforts, including a new wave of young leaders committed to the community’s development.Less
At New Orleans’ eastern edge, Vietnamese refugees settled and built a community in the Village de L’Est neighborhood. This chapter explains how this tight- knit community rebuilt after Katrina with the strong leadership of its Catholic priest. It details efforts to help homeowners and businesses rebuild while fighting to close an adjacent landfill. Aided by the national Vietnamese-American community and other partners, the church formed a community development corporation to assist businesses and residents and pursue development projects. Despite difficulties completing real estate projects, grassroots rebuilding contributed to a high rate of homeowner recovery, the return and expansion of local businesses, a new charter school and two new health clinics. However, repopulation rates for renters and black households were low and many blighted properties remained. Greater political and civic capacity emerged from recovery efforts, including a new wave of young leaders committed to the community’s development.
Terry Rey and Alex Stepick
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814777084
- eISBN:
- 9781479802678
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814777084.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in ...
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Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more recently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically. Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has played a central role in making all of this happen. This book is a historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities. Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, the book explores Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one another, suggesting that despite the differences between these practices, the three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in Haitian communities. The book contributes to the growing body of literature on religion among new immigrants, as well as providing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities.Less
Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more recently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically. Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has played a central role in making all of this happen. This book is a historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities. Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, the book explores Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one another, suggesting that despite the differences between these practices, the three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in Haitian communities. The book contributes to the growing body of literature on religion among new immigrants, as well as providing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities.
Rafael Alarcón, Luis Escala, and Olga Odgers
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520284852
- eISBN:
- 9780520960527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520284852.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter focuses on the construction of the Mexican immigrant community in Los Angeles, stressing the particularities of this process in the Zacatecan, Oaxacan, and Veracruzan communities. One ...
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This chapter focuses on the construction of the Mexican immigrant community in Los Angeles, stressing the particularities of this process in the Zacatecan, Oaxacan, and Veracruzan communities. One out of every ten people born in Mexico resides in the United States temporarily or permanently, and the majority are in the country without documents, which means they face the daily fear of being deported. The rest are naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, persons granted political asylum, or persons whose temporary stay is authorized by particular types of visas—such as those for students, professionals, or agricultural workers reprising the work done by their grandparents under the Bracero Program. The undocumented population grew rapidly in the opening years of the 2000s, then slowed in 2005–2008. This decline in the rate of undocumented immigration stemmed mainly from the impact of the global economic recession that began in the United States in 2008.Less
This chapter focuses on the construction of the Mexican immigrant community in Los Angeles, stressing the particularities of this process in the Zacatecan, Oaxacan, and Veracruzan communities. One out of every ten people born in Mexico resides in the United States temporarily or permanently, and the majority are in the country without documents, which means they face the daily fear of being deported. The rest are naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, persons granted political asylum, or persons whose temporary stay is authorized by particular types of visas—such as those for students, professionals, or agricultural workers reprising the work done by their grandparents under the Bracero Program. The undocumented population grew rapidly in the opening years of the 2000s, then slowed in 2005–2008. This decline in the rate of undocumented immigration stemmed mainly from the impact of the global economic recession that began in the United States in 2008.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814768013
- eISBN:
- 9780814768334
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814768013.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This book investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the ...
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This book investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the book shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive policies targeting immigrants of color and require them to “pay back” benefits for which they are legally eligible during a time of intense debate regarding welfare reform. The book argues that the notions of “public charge” and “public burden” were reinvigorated in the 1990s to target immigrant women of reproductive age for deportation and as part of a larger project of “disciplining” immigrants. Drawing on nearly two hundred interviews with immigrant organizations, government agencies and safety net providers, as well as careful tracking of policies and media coverage, the book provides vivid, first-person accounts of how struggles over the “public charge” doctrine unfolded on the ground, as well as its consequences for the immigrant community. Ultimately, it shows that the concept of “public charge” continues to lurk in the background, structuring our conception of who can legitimately access public programs and of the moral economy of work and citizenship in the United States, and makes important policy suggestions for reforming our immigration system.Less
This book investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the book shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive policies targeting immigrants of color and require them to “pay back” benefits for which they are legally eligible during a time of intense debate regarding welfare reform. The book argues that the notions of “public charge” and “public burden” were reinvigorated in the 1990s to target immigrant women of reproductive age for deportation and as part of a larger project of “disciplining” immigrants. Drawing on nearly two hundred interviews with immigrant organizations, government agencies and safety net providers, as well as careful tracking of policies and media coverage, the book provides vivid, first-person accounts of how struggles over the “public charge” doctrine unfolded on the ground, as well as its consequences for the immigrant community. Ultimately, it shows that the concept of “public charge” continues to lurk in the background, structuring our conception of who can legitimately access public programs and of the moral economy of work and citizenship in the United States, and makes important policy suggestions for reforming our immigration system.
Peter G. Vellon
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814788486
- eISBN:
- 9780814788493
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814788486.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices—slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills—perpetrated against black people. This very history is ...
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Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices—slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills—perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white have also had to struggle with their own racial consciousness. This book explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and “swarthy” race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Examining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white. The book illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. It also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity.Less
Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices—slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills—perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white have also had to struggle with their own racial consciousness. This book explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and “swarthy” race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Examining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white. The book illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. It also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity.
Roderick A. Ferguson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816672783
- eISBN:
- 9781452947112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816672783.003.0006
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter explores the intimate relationship between the history of immigration and the antiracist movements of the 1960s. Though often taken for granted and deemed in some ways unsympathetic to ...
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This chapter explores the intimate relationship between the history of immigration and the antiracist movements of the 1960s. Though often taken for granted and deemed in some ways unsympathetic to the problems of the local minorities, the immigrants are in fact deeply implicated in U.S. racial discourse following the sixties. With the passing of the 1965 Immigration Act and the emergent antiracist movements, the immigrants were given special focus by the U.S. government, in terms of participating, however unwittingly, in social experiments and archival operations designed to reinforce the hegemony. The academy is the ideal site for exploration in this case, as student migrants are engaged in politics of affirmation, whereby the institution supports minority affirmation as a way of regulating the constructive and destructive effects the immigrant communities place upon state power.Less
This chapter explores the intimate relationship between the history of immigration and the antiracist movements of the 1960s. Though often taken for granted and deemed in some ways unsympathetic to the problems of the local minorities, the immigrants are in fact deeply implicated in U.S. racial discourse following the sixties. With the passing of the 1965 Immigration Act and the emergent antiracist movements, the immigrants were given special focus by the U.S. government, in terms of participating, however unwittingly, in social experiments and archival operations designed to reinforce the hegemony. The academy is the ideal site for exploration in this case, as student migrants are engaged in politics of affirmation, whereby the institution supports minority affirmation as a way of regulating the constructive and destructive effects the immigrant communities place upon state power.
Michihiro Ama
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834388
- eISBN:
- 9780824871727
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834388.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Religious acculturation is typically seen as a one-way process: The dominant religious culture imposes certain behavioral patterns, ethical standards, social values, and organizational and legal ...
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Religious acculturation is typically seen as a one-way process: The dominant religious culture imposes certain behavioral patterns, ethical standards, social values, and organizational and legal requirements onto the immigrant religious tradition. This investigation of the early period of Jōdo Shinshū in Hawaii and the United States sets a new standard for investigating the processes of religious acculturation and a radically new way of thinking about these processes. The use of materials spans the Pacific as the book draws on never-before-studied archival works in Japan as well as the United States. More important, it locates immigrant Jōdo Shinshū at the interface of two expansionist nations. Because Jōdo Shinshū’s institutional history in the United States and the Pacific occurs at a contested interface, the book defines its acculturation as a dual process of both “Japanization” and “Americanization.” It explores in detail the activities of individual Shin Buddhist ministers responsible for making specific decisions regarding the practice of Jodo Shinshu in local sanghas. By focusing so closely, the book reveals the contestation of immigrant communities faced with discrimination and exploitation in their new homes and with changing messages from Japan. The strategies employed, whether accommodation to the dominant religious culture or assertion of identity, uncover the history of an American church in the making.Less
Religious acculturation is typically seen as a one-way process: The dominant religious culture imposes certain behavioral patterns, ethical standards, social values, and organizational and legal requirements onto the immigrant religious tradition. This investigation of the early period of Jōdo Shinshū in Hawaii and the United States sets a new standard for investigating the processes of religious acculturation and a radically new way of thinking about these processes. The use of materials spans the Pacific as the book draws on never-before-studied archival works in Japan as well as the United States. More important, it locates immigrant Jōdo Shinshū at the interface of two expansionist nations. Because Jōdo Shinshū’s institutional history in the United States and the Pacific occurs at a contested interface, the book defines its acculturation as a dual process of both “Japanization” and “Americanization.” It explores in detail the activities of individual Shin Buddhist ministers responsible for making specific decisions regarding the practice of Jodo Shinshu in local sanghas. By focusing so closely, the book reveals the contestation of immigrant communities faced with discrimination and exploitation in their new homes and with changing messages from Japan. The strategies employed, whether accommodation to the dominant religious culture or assertion of identity, uncover the history of an American church in the making.
