The Social Contexts of Children of Immigrants in the US

美国移民子女的社会背景

• 批准号: 7614958
• 负责人: Nancy A Denton
• 金额: $ 20.82万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7614958
• 关键词: Age; American; Area; Assimilations; Authorization documentation; Capital; Censuses; Cereals; Characteristics; Child; Child Rearing; Country; Data; Data Files; Disadvantaged; Discrimination; Economics; El Salvador; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Factor Analysis; Family; Generations; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Hispanics; Home environment; Household; Household and Family; Human; Huntington Disease; Immigrant; Individual; Lead; Light; Link; Literature; Living Wills; Mainstreaming; Measures; Methodology; Mexico; Modeling; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Native-Born; Neighborhoods; New York City; Outcome; Pan Genus; Parents; Pattern; Play; Population; Poverty; Probability; Race; Records; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Sampling; Social Environment; Societies; Work; bean; child well being; comparative; human capital; improved; innovation; metropolitan; residence

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will examine the social contexts, defined at the neighborhood or household level, in which the children of immigrant parents are being reared in the U.S. and identify the family/household, parental and metropolitan characteristics associated with these contexts. Theoretically, it is guided by the conceptualization in the literature of three distinct patterns of incorporation: conventional assimilation, downward assimilation (or racialized incorporation), and the pluralist alternative. Since no one of these patterns is adequate for a full understanding of the incorporation of contemporary immigrant groups, our major goal is to identify more precisely the circumstances under which each pattern comes into play. To achieve project goals, both microdata and summary files from the 2000 U.S. Census will be analyzed, drawing upon the investigators' previous work on measures of child well-being and on locational-attainment models. Multi-level models of household and neighborhood outcomes will be estimated for 36 different immigrant groups, as well as for the children in the native families of all the major race groups and Hispanics. These models will include parental, household, and metropolitan characteristics as independent variables and will allow the examination of effects specific to kinds of metropolitan areas through interactions between metropolitan-level variables and lower-level ones. To analyze neighborhood-level outcomes, the investigators have received permission to use the facilities of the New York City Research Data Center to link PUMS and census-tract records, which will extend the Alba-Logan locational attainment models theoretically by using country-specific groups and methodologically by estimating neighborhood characteristics without the focal household included. We will analyze in particular the factors that lead the children of immigrants to grow up in socially advantaged or disadvantaged households and neighborhoods. Since limited economic resources and residence in poverty-stricken neighborhoods have implications for access to health care and exposure to health risks, the findings will provide improved understanding of important determinants of health outcomes and identify children in specific groups in particular metropolitan areas that are at risk for adverse health outcomes.

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目将研究移民父母的孩子在美国被抚养的社区或家庭层面的社会背景，并确定与这些背景相关的家庭/家庭、父母和大都市特征。从理论上讲，它以文献中三种不同的融合模式的概念化为指导：传统同化、向下同化（或种族化的融合）和多元选择。由于这些模式中的任何一种都不足以充分理解当代移民群体的融合，我们的主要目标是更准确地确定每种模式发挥作用的环境。为了实现项目目标，将分析2000年美国人口普查的微观数据和摘要文件，并借鉴调查人员以前在儿童福利措施和地区成就模型方面的工作。将对36个不同的移民群体，以及所有主要种族和西班牙裔的本土家庭的孩子，进行家庭和社区结果的多层次模型评估。这些模型将包括父母、家庭和大都市特征作为独立变量，并将允许通过大都市水平变量和较低水平变量之间的相互作用来检查特定于大都市地区的影响。为了分析社区层面的结果，调查人员已经获得许可，可以使用纽约市研究数据中心的设施，将PUMS和人口普查区记录联系起来，这将从理论上扩展阿尔巴-洛根的位置成就模型，通过使用特定国家的群体，在方法上通过估计不包括重点家庭的社区特征。我们将特别分析导致移民子女在社会优势或弱势家庭和社区中成长的因素。由于贫困社区有限的经济资源和居住地对获得保健服务和暴露于健康风险有影响，研究结果将有助于更好地了解健康结果的重要决定因素，并确定在特定大都市地区的特定群体中面临不良健康结果风险的儿童。