Recently added articles from The International Migration Review:
"No Thanks, We're Full": Individual Characteristics, National Context, and Changing Attitudes Toward Immigration1
Jul 01, 2008; Wilkes, Rima; Guppy, Neil; Farris, Lily ... In this paper we examine how individual-level characteristics and national context affect attitudes toward immigration. Although many previous studies have compared attitudes toward immigration across countries, little attention has been paid to how attitudes may be affected by changes within a ...
Homeland Interests, Hostland Politics: Politicized Ethnic Identity among Middle Eastern Heritage Groups in the United States1
Jul 01, 2008; Wald, Kenneth D ... Why do ethnic diasporas in the United States differ in their readiness for political mobilization on behalf of homeland interests? This study develops a tiered model of politicized ethnic identity emphasizing both individual-level traits and group/collective properties. Using Zogby "Culture ...
The Cat and Mouse Game at the Mexico-U.S. Border: Gendered Patterns and Recent Shifts1
Jul 01, 2008; Donato, Katharine M; Wagner, Brandon; Patterson, Evelyn ... This paper provides new insights into the process of undocumented border crossing by examining both men and women in the process. We investigate differences in the ways in which men and women make their way across the well-guarded Mexico-U.S, border, and the extent to which men and women by the ...
Immigrant Religion in the U.S. and Western Europe: Bridge or Barrier to Inclusion?
Jul 01, 2008; Foner, Nancy; Alba, Richard ... This article analyzes why immigrant religion is viewed as a problematic area in Western Europe in contrast to the United States, where it is seen as facilitating the adaptation process. The difference, it is argued, is anchored in whether or not religion can play a major role for immigrants and ...
Poverty Dynamics among Recent Immigrants to Canada1
Jul 01, 2008; Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng; Coulombe, Simon ... This paper examines two issues: (1) poverty dynamics among successive cohorts of entering immigrants to Canada, and (2) whether rising educational attainment and increasing share in the "skilled" class since the early 1990s has resulted in improvements in poverty entry, exit, and chronic ...
Immigrants and Social Networks in a Job-Scarce Environment: The Case of Germany1
Jul 01, 2008; Drever, Anita I; Hoffmeister, Onno ... Though information about jobs passed through personal networks has been central to the labor market integration of immigrants in the United States, its role in the economic absorption of immigrants in Germany, where jobs are scarcer and employers more likely to demand formal qualifications, is ...
Toward a Demography of Immigrant Communities and Their Transnational Potential
Jul 01, 2008; Carling, Jørgen ... This article lays out a foundation for a demographic perspective on the development of immigrant communities. Such a perspective can strengthen the connections between in-depth ethnographic analysis and macro-level trends. New applications of the so-called Lexis diagram are introduced in order ...
Migration to European Countries: A Structural Explanation of Patterns, 1980-2004(1)
Jul 01, 2008; Hooghe, Marc; Trappers, Ann; Meuleman, Bart; Reeskens, Tim ... Various theoretical approaches have provided us with insights to explain the pattern of migration flows. Economic theory considers migration to be a reaction to labor market and economic incentives. Cultural theories predict that migration flows will occur according to a center-periphery ...
The Ancestry Question and Ethnic Heterogeneity: The Case of Arab Americans
Jul 01, 2008; Dallo, Florence J; Ajrouch, Kristine J; Al-Snih, Soham ... This article uses US Census data to investigate change over time in Arab American profiles. In 2000, a higher proportion of children (0 to 13 years of age), women, and those who lived in the Northeast identified with an Arab/non-Arab ancestry compared to an Arab-only ancestry. In 1980 and 2000, ...
Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada
Jul 01, 2008; Woodrow-Lafield, Karen A ... Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. By Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 369. $55.00 hardcover. $21.95 paperback. KAREN A. WOODROW-LAFIELD Bloemraad's Becoming a Citizen is a rare ...