Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Linkages: Suburban Koreans in the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area

移民社区和种族联系：纽约-新泽西大都市区的郊区韩国人

• 批准号: 0503081
• 负责人: Robert Beauregard
• 金额: $ 0.78万
• 依托单位: The New School
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-15 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0503081&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Immigrant; Communities; Ethnic; Linkages; Suburban

Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Linkages: Suburban Koreans in the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area The proposed dissertation examines the increasing spatial dispersion of immigrants without the diminution of ethnic ties. It will focus on Korean households with varying degrees of spatial dispersion in Bergen County, New Jersey and their corresponding job, consumption, religious, and social linkages. The contribution of this dissertation will be an enhanced understanding of immigrant residential choice through an explanation of how ethnic enclaves remain significant in immigrant suburbanization. This argument subsequently challenges and modifies linear spatial assimilation theory by revealing spatial assimilation without cultural and social assimilation.The dissertation explores three research questions and hypotheses. First, how and why have Bergen County's Korean households become spatially dispersed? Second, why and to what extent are Korean households in the suburbs linked to ethnic centers? Third, why has this simultaneous residential dispersion and ethnic concentration occurred? Methodologically, the research consists of two broad tasks. The first task investigates spatial dispersion using 1980, 1990, and 2000 aggregate Census data and 1990 and 2000 Public-Use Microdata Sample Data. The second task examines why and to what extent these households are linked to ethnic centers, and it relies on data collected from a survey of Korean households. The survey data will be analyzed using logistic regressions and an index of ethnic linkages. I will supplement these analyses with face-to-face key informant interviews with Korean community leaders, businessmen, government officials and an analysis of local coethnic and non-coethnic newspapers.The broader impact of this dissertation entails insights into current immigration policy and patterns, the changing nature of metropolitan areas, and overall change in public attitude toward immigrants. The dissertation will also contribute to the knowledge available to governments, service providers, churches, educators, and policymakers for addressing immigrant issues. Lastly, the dissertation's within-group comparative method can be applied to studying other immigrant groups.

移民社区与种族联系：纽约-新泽西大都会区的郊区韩国人 拟议的论文探讨了移民的空间分散性的增加，而不减少种族关系。它将侧重于韩国家庭与不同程度的空间分散在卑尔根县，新泽西和他们相应的工作，消费，宗教和社会联系。本文的贡献在于通过解释民族聚居区在移民郊区化中的重要性，加深对移民居住选择的理解。这一论点随后挑战和修改线性空间同化理论，揭示空间同化没有文化和社会同化。首先，如何以及为什么卑尔根县的韩国家庭成为空间分散？第二，为什么以及在多大程度上，郊区的朝鲜族家庭与民族中心联系在一起？第三，为什么会同时出现居住分散和民族集中？从方法论上讲，这项研究包括两大任务。第一项任务使用1980年、1990年和2000年的人口普查数据以及1990年和2000年的公共使用微数据样本数据来调查空间分散。第二项任务研究了这些家庭与民族中心联系的原因和程度，它依赖于从韩国家庭调查中收集的数据。调查数据将使用逻辑回归和种族联系指数进行分析。我将补充这些分析与韩国社区领袖，商人，政府官员面对面的关键线人采访和当地的同种族和非同种族newspapers.The更广泛的影响，这篇论文需要深入了解当前的移民政策和模式，不断变化的大都市地区的性质，以及公众对移民的态度的整体变化。论文还将有助于政府，服务提供商，教会，教育工作者和政策制定者解决移民问题的知识。最后，本文的组内比较方法也可以应用于其他移民群体的研究。