|
Immigrant Incorporation in Western Democracies1
|
How much variation is there in immigrant incorporation policies and practices across the Western democracies? Concluding that the effort to capture variation in typologies of incorporation schemes is likely to prove both futile and misleading, I propose a radically dis-aggregated perspective that conceives of incorporation as the product of the intersection of migrant aspirations and strategies with regulatory frameworks in four domains - state, market, welfare, and culture. Because some but ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
|
Home society politics and immigrant political incorporation: The case of Greek immigrants in New York City
The International Migration Review
; This article examines the processes through which home society politics affect Greek immigrant incorporation into the host society's political structures. The argument made is that immigrant concern with the home society's territorial sovereignty prompt immigrant incorporation into the American
|
|
Daytime television talk shows and the cultivation effect among U.S. and international students.(Statistical Data Included)
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
; Cultivation analysis is one of the more influential research traditions that has examined the long-term effects of television viewing. The typical cultivation study begins by identifying the most recurrent and stable patterns in television content, emphasizing consistent images and portrayals. The
|
|
Europe's immigrants no longer 'in their place'
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; PARIS - Bombs in the London Underground dealt a fatal blow to multiculturalism as a theory of society in West European countries with large Muslim immigrant populations. In Britain, the government now proposes to set language skills, knowledge of the host society and its cultural assumptions, and
|
|
|
Everything old is new again? Processes and theories of immigrant incorporation
The International Migration Review
; Everything Old Is New Again? Process and Theories of Immigrant Incorporation1 After three decades of renewed, large-scale immigration to the United States, social scientists are increasingly turning their attention to processes of immigrant incorporation and reexamining the perspectives of social
|
|
|
Institutional structure and immigrant integration: A comparative study of immigrants' labor market attainment in Canada and Israel
The International Migration Review
; The present study focuses on the incorporation of immigrants from the former Soviet Union in two receiving societies, Israel and Canada, during the first half of the 1990s. Both countries conducted national censuses in 1995 (Israel) and 1996 (Canada), making it possible to identify a large enough
|
|
Acculturation attitudes, need for cognitive closure, and adaptation of immigrants.
The Journal of Social Psychology
; SEVERAL POLITICAL EVENTS and socioeconomic developments have generated a remarkable level of concern for immigration in Western Europe, stimulating detailed studies of that phenomenon. The main topics of studies conducted in Italy so far have been the participation of immigrants in the job market
|
|
|
Acculturation Attitudes and Sociocultural Adjustment of Sojourner Youth in Israel.
The Journal of Social Psychology
; ABSTRACT. Among 300 Jewish sojourner youth (age range: 15-18 years) from the Russian Federation, the authors investigated associations of acculturation attitudes, measures of sociocultural adjustment, and length of the encounter with the host society, Israel. All the youth were participating in a
|
 "The Independent (London, England)")
|
LETTER: Respect for Britain.(Comment)(Letter to the Editor)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: NITIN MEHTA Sir: Richard Askwith raises some important issues in his piece The moral minefield (27 September). As someone of Indian origin who settled in this country from Kenya, I believe that the liberal tendency to defend any ethnic minority unquestioningly actually does great harm to
|
|
Chinese investment and business in Canada: ethnic entrepreneurship reconsidered.
Pacific Affairs
; The apparent success of overseas Chinese in business has been the subject of intense research. In North America, what has intrigued researchers has been the concentration of some minority immigrants in certain identifiable businesses such as food services, retailing and clothing manufacturing that
|
|
Negotiating social membership in the contemporary world.
Social Forces
; One of the defining characteristics of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is the increasing importance of international migration, an epoch Castles and Miller term the age of migration. (2003) The precise size of the international migrant population is unknown. Much of this movement- such as
|