Immigrants, Rights, and Incorporation in a Surburnban Metropolis

0003938Brettell， Hollifield & cordell本项目研究自1980年以来在德克萨斯州达拉斯、塔兰特、科林和丹顿县的阳光地带大都市区建立社区的亚裔印度人、尼日利亚人、越南人、萨尔瓦多人和墨西哥人的移民经历。包括文化人类学家、政治科学家、历史学家和人口学家在内的研究人员将记录每个移民群体的融入结果，并关注性别、经济地位和活动、语言使用和社会流动性、社区机构、群体内和群体间关系、休闲时间活动以及通过入籍和政治参与的公民和政治融入的变化。该项目将分析人力和社会资本的变化，如教育和社会网络，以及移民支持方面的变化，如抵达条件（是否存在家庭联系、各种合法或未经授权的身份），对这些不同移民人口和个人融入社会过程的影响。该项目将收集定性和定量数据，包括对过去30年人口普查数据的人口分析、历史档案、对政府官员、组织负责人、雇主和移民企业家的深入非结构化和半结构化访谈、对五个移民群体的家庭调查、参与者观察和对大都市居民的电话调查。这一研究将推动合并模式、全球化和跨国研究的理论发展。所获得的新知识将对国际移民和种族的学生、规划人员、决策者和社会服务提供者有用。

0003938Brettell, Hollifield, & CordellThis project studies the immigrant experience of Asian Indian, Nigerian, Vietnamese, Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants who have established communities in the sunbelt metropolitan area of Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties, Texas, since 1980. The researchers, including cultural anthropologists, political scientists, historians and demographers, will document incorporation outcomes for each immigrant group, paying attention to variation by gender, economic status and activity, language use and social mobility, community institutions, intra- and inter-group relations and leisure time activity as well as civil and political incorporation through naturalization and political participation. The project will analyze the effects of variation in human and social capital such as education and social networks and variation in the auspices of immigration such as the conditions of arrival (the existence of family contacts, varieties of legal or unauthorized status) on the process of incorporation among these diverse immigrant populations and individuals. The project will collect qualitative and quantitative data including a demographic analysis of census data from the past 30 years, historical archives, in-depth unstructured and semi-structured interviews with government officials, heads of organizations, employers and immigrant entrepreneurs, a survey of households from each of the five immigrant groups, participant-observation, and a telephone survey of metroplex residents. This research will advance theory in modes of incorporation, globalization, and transnational research. The new knowledge to be gained will be useful to students of international migration and ethnicity, planners, decision makers, and social service deliverers.