Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration
Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration
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DOI：
10.2307/2547416
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发表时间：
1997-12-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Nee, V
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作者：
Alba, R;Nee, V
几十年来，同化理论一直受到强烈的批评。然而，没有其他框架为社会科学界提供了关于移民及其后代融入社会的深入的累积研究结果。我们认为，同化理论并没有失去其效用的当代移民到美国的研究。在使我们的情况下，我们批判性地审查了典型的帐户同化提供的米尔顿戈登和其他人，我们指的是涩谷和关的种族分层的理论，建议在重新制定同化理论的一些方向。我们还研究了一些经常提出的论点，以区分早期的欧洲大规模移民和当代的移民，并发现他们是不确定的。最后，我们筛选了一些关于最近移民群体的社会经济和居住同化的证据。虽然记录显然是混合的，我们发现的证据一致的观点，同化正在发生，虽然不均匀。
Assimilation theory has been subject to intensive critique for decades. Yet no other framework has provided the social science community with as deep a corpus of cumulative findings concerning the incorporation of immigrants and their descendants. We argue that assimilation theory has not lost its utility for the study of contemporary immigration to the United States. In making our case, we review critically the canonical account of assimilation provided by Milton Gordon and others; we refer to Shibutani and Kwan's theory of ethnic stratification to suggest some directions to take in reformulating assimilation theory. We also examine some of the arguments frequently made to distinguish between the earlier mass immigration of Europeans and the immigration of the contemporary era and find them to be inconclusive. Finally, we sift through some of the evidence about the socioeconomic and residential assimilation of recent immigrant groups. Though the record is clearly mixed, we find evidence consistent with the view that assimilation is taking place, albeit unevenly.