NATURALIZATION & IMMIGRANTS' RECEIPT OF PUBLIC ASSISTANC

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：拟议的研究 有三个广泛的目标。第一个是评估是否以及在多大程度上 经典的、否定的或分段的同化理论 新近来到美国的非老年移民经历的融入过程 美国最好地解释了公民身份和 福利收据。在这部分研究中，他们使用了非老年人的数据 在1996年《个人权利法案》通过之前进入美国的移民 《责任与工作机会协调法》(或《福利改革法》 他们的预期是，假设是从分段的 同化理论将最好地预测以下几种福利领取模式 按公民身份和在美国逗留时间分列的移民 这个国家。第二个目标是及早评估是否 以及现有证据在多大程度上支持这一推论 福利改革法案已经开始增加入籍人数，改变 它们发生的原因，从而可能改变它们的程度 归化可以被认为是同化的反映。第三个目标是 重新审视公民身份和福利收入之间的关系 在后改革时期。在这一部分的研究中，为了检验 假设负同化观点所预测的模式 将更有可能出现在改革后的时期，他们使用的数据 改革前移民的入籍与福利行为。 因为《福利改革法》引入了入籍的负面理由(在 获得福利的命令)，这与以前存在的 积极的理由，他们预计改革前的福利收入率 在后改革时期入籍的移民超过 早些时候入籍的移民，其他条件都一样。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): The proposed research has three broad objectives. The first is to assess whether and to what degree classic, negative, or segmented assimilation theories about the kinds of incorporation processes experienced by recent non-elderly immigrants to the United States best account for the relationship between citizenship status and welfare receipt. In this part of the research they use data for non-elderly immigrants who entered the country before the passage in 1996 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (or "Welfare Reform Act"). Their expectation is that hypotheses derived from segmented assimilation theory will best predict patterns of welfare receipt among immigrants disaggregated by citizenship status and duration of time spent in the country. The second objective is to conduct an early assessment of whether and to what degree the available evidence supports the inference that the Welfare Reform Act has begun to increase the number of naturalization, change the reasons for their occurrence, and thus perhaps alter the degree to which naturalization can be assumed to reflect assimilation. The third objective is to reexamine the relationship between citizenship status and welfare receipt in the post-reform period. In this part of the research, in order to test the hypothesis that the pattern predicted by the negative assimilation perspective will be more likely to emerge in the post-reform period, they use data on the post-reform naturalization and welfare behavior of pre-reform immigrants. Because the Welfare Reform Act introduces a negative reason to naturalize (in order to obtain welfare) that now goes along with the previously existing positive reasons, they expect the rate of welfare receipts among pre-reform immigrants who naturalize in the post-reform period to exceed that of immigrants who had naturalized earlier, all else equal.