Hurricane Chasers in New Orleans Latino Immigrants as a Source of a Rapid Response Labor Force
Hurricane Chasers in New Orleans Latino Immigrants as a Source of a Rapid Response Labor Force
复制标题
DOI：
10.1177/0739986309339735
复制
发表时间：
2009-08-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Fussell, Elizabeth
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Fussell, Elizabeth
人们对卡特里娜飓风后来到新奥尔良清理和修复城市的拉丁裔工人知之甚少。作者使用在访问巴西，墨西哥和哥伦比亚领事馆（N = 253）收集的调查数据来研究卡特里娜飓风后抵达的内部移动的移民，他们预计在调查后2年内离开新奥尔良，或者作者称之为快速反应劳动力。研究了四个假设：（1）不同国籍的群体在成为快速反应劳动力的倾向上没有区别;（2）成员是新移民，他们对已经在美国的移民几乎没有抽搐;（3）成员是先驱者（无陪伴的工作年龄男性，居住关系薄弱）;（4）成员使用流动策略来获得更高的工资。我发现巴西人和墨西哥人比尼加拉瓜人更有可能成为快速反应者。快速反应者的美国移民经验水平较低，英语能力很低或根本没有，与那些没有内部移动的人相比，社交网络联系很少。这些快速反应者使用内部流动策略来获得更高的工资，并克服他们在劳动力市场上的劣势。
Little is known about the Latino workers who came to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to clean up and repair the city. The author uses data from surveys collected at the visits of the Brazilian, Mexican, and Nicaraguan consulates (N = 253) to study the internally mobile immigrants who arrived after Katrina and who anticipate leaving New Orleans within 2 years of the survey, or what the author calls a rapid response labor force. Four hypotheses are examined: (1) that there is no difference between national origin groups in their propensity to be a member of the rapid response labor force; (2) that members are newer immigrants who have few tics to immigrants already in the United States; (3) that members are pioneers (unaccompanied working age men with weak residential ties); and (4) that members use a mobility strategy to obtain higher wages. I find that Brazilians and Mexicans are more likely than Nicaraguans to be rapid responders. Rapid responders have low levels of U.S. migratory experience, little or no English language ability, and few social network ties compared to those who are not internally mobile. These rapid responders use an internal mobility strategy to obtain higher wages and overcome their labor market disadvantages.