Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
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Leaders: Linda Burton, Tomás Jiménez, Hazel Markus, Douglas Massey, C. Matthew Snipp
The CPI has an extensive research program on race, ethnicity, immigration, and poverty. The National Poverty Study, for example, is designed to rigorously compare differences across rural black, deindustrialized, reservation, and other “racialized” poverty forms. The CPI also runs a comprehensive program on Hispanic poverty that explores such topics as the “chilling effect” of anti-immigrant laws on program use, the reasons why, contrary to much speculation, the Hispanic poverty rate has not taken off, and the causes of the so-called Hispanic Health Paradox (see, for example, our Pathways Magazine special report on poverty, inequality, and mobility among Hispanics). And one of the CPI’s most distinguished affiliates, Jennifer Eberhardt (who is on the CPI directorate), is carrying out a groundbreaking big-data analysis of policing and race. We list below a sampling of other CPI projects on race, ethnicity, immigration, and poverty.
Poverty among refugees: The U.S. refugee population faces very high rates of poverty, yet we know very little about the effects of different resettlement programs and approaches. There are efforts afoot to exploit available administrative data and begin to find out what works and what doesn’t.
Arrests, race, and poverty: Why are some arrests resolved informally while others are converted into a criminal record that then has a life-long scarring effect? The process of converting an arrest into a criminal booking may play an important role in generating downstream racial disparities.
Reducing the race gap in test scores: The new Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) is a rich resource that is providing the most systematic evidence to date on the capacity of school-district policies to reduce the racial gap in test scores.
Poverty and schooling on reservations: Why are test scores and educational outcomes on Native reservations so low (relative to the national average)? In a new project by the noted ethnographer Martin Sánchez-Jankowski, we’ll be learning more about how traditional and formal education are viewed and the ways in which they might be better integrated.
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Race And Ethnicity - CPI Research
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| Reducing Poverty in California...Permanently | Conway Collis, David B. Grusky, Sara Kimberlin, Courtney Powers, Sandra Sanchez |
Reducing Poverty in California...PermanentlyAuthor: Conway Collis, David B. Grusky, Sara Kimberlin, Courtney Powers, Sandra SanchezPublisher: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Date: 05/2015 What if we decided to go beyond the usual lip-service commitments to reducing poverty and actually tried to do something big? Learn more about a new plan to reduce poverty—substantially and permanently—in California. |
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| The Waning Hispanic Health Paradox | Francisco Riosmena, Elisabeth Root, Jamie Humphrey, Emily Steiner, Rebecca Stubbs |
The Waning Hispanic Health ParadoxAuthor: Francisco Riosmena, Elisabeth Root, Jamie Humphrey, Emily Steiner, Rebecca StubbsPublisher: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Date: 05/2015 It is well known that Hispanics have been more healthy than other groups in the U.S. with a similar socioeconomic position. Is this "Hispanic Health Paradox" alive and well? |
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| Revisiting the "Americano Dream" | Van C. Tran |
Revisiting the "Americano Dream"Author: Van C. TranPublisher: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Date: 05/2015 Is Latino assimilation stalling out because of the recent recession, rising deportation rates, and the growing popularity of rural destinations? |
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| The “Chilling Effect” of America’s New Immigration Enforcement Regime | Francisco I. Pedraza, Ling Zhu |
The “Chilling Effect” of America’s New Immigration Enforcement RegimeAuthor: Francisco I. Pedraza, Ling ZhuPublisher: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Date: 05/2015 Are TANF enrollments declining because Hispanic immigrants are afraid that enrollment will lead to deportation? |
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| The Real Hispanic Challenge | Douglas S. Massey |
The Real Hispanic ChallengeAuthor: Douglas S. MasseyPublisher: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Date: 05/2015 The simple aim of recent immigration and border policy: Reduce the inflow of undocumented migrants. Has the policy worked? Were there unanticipated consequences? |
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race and ethnicity - CPI Affiliates
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Suzanne Model |
Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology; Research Associate, Center for Research on International Migration, University of California at Irvine |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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Thomas J. Espenshade |
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus; Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research |
Princeton University |
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Victor Nee |
Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Sociology; Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society |
Cornell University |
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Al Camarillo |
Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, Emeritus |
Stanford University |
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William T. Bielby |
Professor of Sociology |
University of Illinois-Chicago |
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Race And Ethnicity - Other Research
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| "Caught Up:” How Urban Violence and Peer Ties Contribute to High School Non-Completion | Maria G. Rendón |
"Caught Up:” How Urban Violence and Peer Ties Contribute to High School Non-CompletionAuthor: Maria G. RendónPublisher: Social Problems Date: 02/2014 While research shows growing up in urban neighborhoods increases the likelihood of not completing high school, it remains unclear what mechanism facilitates this process and why some youth are more vulnerable than others. This study addresses this gap by drawing on interviews with male, Latino high school graduates and noncompleters in Los Angeles. Interviews reveal urban violence is the most salient feature of urban neighborhoods and consequential for school completion. In an effort to avoid victimization male youth exposed to urban violence draw on male peer ties for protection. Inherent in these social ties, as in other forms of social capital, are expectations and obligations. I find that an orientation that privileges these expectations and obligations—and not specifically an anti-school orientation—gets male youth “caught up” in behavior counterproductive to school completion, like being truant with peers and getting expelled for “backing them” in a fight. I find not all urban youth adopt this orientation because youth are differentially exposed to the neighborhood. Family and school institutional factors limit some youth's time in the neighborhood, buffering them from urban violence. These youth then bypass the opportunity and need to draw on male peer ties for protection. Not having to employ these “strategies of action,” they avoid getting “caught up” and experience higher chances to graduate. This study argues that to understand the cultural orientation that guides behavior that contributes to school noncompletion requires accounting for how the threat of violence punctuates and organizes the daily lives of male urban youth. |
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| Medical Mistrust, Perceived Discrimination, and Satisfaction With Health Care Among Young-Adult Rural Latinos | Daniel F. López-Cevallos, S. Marie Harvey, Jocelyn T. Warren |
Medical Mistrust, Perceived Discrimination, and Satisfaction With Health Care Among Young-Adult Rural LatinosAuthor: Daniel F. López-Cevallos, S. Marie Harvey, Jocelyn T. WarrenPublisher: The Journal of Rural Health Date: 02/2014 Little research has analyzed mistrust and discrimination influencing receipt of health care services among Latinos, particularly those living in rural areas. This study examined the associations between medical mistrust, perceived discrimination, and satisfaction with health care among young-adult rural Latinos. |
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| Residential Hierarchy in Los Angeles: An Examination of Ethnic and Documentation Status Differences | David A. Cort, Ken-Hou Lin, Gabriela Stevenson |
Residential Hierarchy in Los Angeles: An Examination of Ethnic and Documentation Status DifferencesAuthor: David A. Cort, Ken-Hou Lin, Gabriela StevensonPublisher: Social Science Research Date: 01/2014 Longitudinal event history data from two waves of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey are used to explore racial, ethnic, and documentation status differences in access to desirable neighborhoods. We first find that contrary to recent findings, undocumented Latinos do not replace blacks at the bottom of the locational attainment hierarchy. Whites continue to end up in neighborhoods that are less poor and whiter than minority groups, while all minorities, including undocumented Latinos, end up in neighborhoods that are of similar quality. Second, the effects of socioeconomic status for undocumented Latinos are either similar to or weaker than disadvantaged blacks. These findings suggest that living in less desirable neighborhoods is a fate disproportionately borne by non-white Los Angeles residents and that in some limited ways, the penalty attached to being undocumented Latino might actually be greater than the penalty attached to being black. |
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| Are Latino Immigrants a Burden to Safety Net Services in Non-Traditional Immigrant States? Lessons from Oregon | Daniel López-Cevallos |
Are Latino Immigrants a Burden to Safety Net Services in Non-Traditional Immigrant States? Lessons from OregonAuthor: Daniel López-CevallosPublisher: American Journal of Public Health Date: 12/2013 The significant growth of the Latino population in the midst of an economic recession has invigorated anti-Latino, anti-immigrant sentiments in many US states. One common misconception is that Latino immigrants are a burden to safety net services. This may be particularly true in nontraditional immigrant states that have not historically served Latino immigrants. Oregon data suggest that despite a higher prevalence of poverty, use of safety net services among Latino immigrants in Oregon is lower than that among non-Latino Whites. Immigration status, costs, lack of insurance coverage, and discrimination are among the reasons for this group’s limited use of services. Nevertheless, policies designed to strengthen community and institutional support for Latino immigrant families should be considered in the context of current health care and immigration reform efforts. |
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| When the Border Is “Everywhere”: State-level Variation in Migration Control and Changing Settlement Patterns of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States | Arjen Leerkes, James D. Bachmeier, Mark A. Leach |
When the Border Is “Everywhere”: State-level Variation in Migration Control and Changing Settlement Patterns of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United StatesAuthor: Arjen Leerkes, James D. Bachmeier, Mark A. LeachPublisher: International Migration Review Date: 12/2013 Governments increasingly exclude unauthorized migrants from labor markets and public provisions and apprehend those who have settled in the territory. In the U.S., recent increases in interior control coincided with a reduction in (the growth of) the estimated unauthorized population. This study describes the mechanisms through which interior control may impact migration patterns and analyzes whether interior control has been responsible for the changing settlement patterns. We find that when the effects of labor markets and internal dynamics of migration processes are controlled, policy has a (moderate) negative effect on estimated levels of unauthorized residence, both in individual states and the U.S. as a whole. |
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