Assimilation and the U.S. Host Society

斯坦福大学中文摘要同化与美国东道社会东道社会的个人--那些在美国出生的父母--如何参与移民同化的关系过程？ 在上个世纪，同化研究认为东道国社会塑造了移民及其后代的同化。最近的理论创新认识到，美国社会沿着种族和阶级界限的多样性可能意味着移民及其子女经历了一种分段形式的同化。 基于经典同化理论及其新变体的研究并没有说明东道国社会的个人如何在移民形成的背景下同化。拟议的项目侧重于东道国社会的个人，并探讨民族和阶级背景如何塑造他们的经验。它的目的是使一个关系和潜在的相互影响的同化过程的意义。 该研究采用了深入访谈东道国社会的个人和观察在三个地区的南部部分旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区，加利福尼亚州（“硅谷”）：东帕洛阿尔托，库比蒂诺，和Berryessa（圣何塞的一个分区）。 每一个地区都有不同的民族和阶级特征，体现了同化展开的背景的分割性质。 这项研究通过研究通常与移民同化相关的结果如何适用于东道国社会的个人来翻转同化方程。 它考察了他们的民族边界，日常实践，他们的社交网络和他们的美国国家身份的概念与移民的民族构成的民族身份的看法。 大约180名深度访谈受访者（每个地区60名）的样本将被分为三个年龄组，以评估东道国社会个人之间的同化如何在各年龄组中展开。 该项目还包括与每个地点的主要信息提供者的访谈和观测数据。 该项目有可能通过提供移民“客人”和本土出生的“主人”如何参与同化的更全面的帐户，以改变社会科学的理解同化。更广泛的影响该项目的更广泛的影响是有关移民政策（包括解决移民可能会或可能不会改变美国社会）。该项目将有助于公众更好地了解移民对美国的影响。

SES-1121281Tomas JimenezStanford UniversityAbstractAssimilation and the U.S. Host SocietyHow do host-society individuals - those who are US-born of US-born parents - participate in a relational process of assimilation which involves immigrants? For the last century, assimilation research has regarded the host society as shaping the assimilation of immigrants and their descendents. Recent theoretical innovations recognize that the variegated nature of U.S. society along ethnoracial and class lines may mean that immigrants and their children experience a segmented form of assimilation. Research based on classical assimilation theory and its newer variants do not account for how host-society individuals are themselves assimilating in a context shaped by immigration. The proposed project focuses on host-society individuals and examines how ethnoracial and class context shapes their experiences. It aims to make sense of a relational and potentially mutually influencing assimilation process. The study employs in-depth interviews with host-society individuals and observations in three areas in the southern part San Francisco Bay Area, CA ("Silicon Valley"): East Palo Alto, Cupertino, and Berryessa (a subsection of San José). Each area has a different ethnoracial and class profile, capturing the segmented nature of the contexts in which assimilation unfolds. The study flips the assimilation equation by examining how the outcomes normally associated with immigrant assimilation apply to host-society individuals. It examines their ethnoracial identity perceptions of ethnoracial boundaries, everyday practices, the ethnoracial composition of their social networks and their conceptions of American national identity vis-à-vis immigration. The sample of roughly 180 in-depth interview respondents (60 in each locale) will be divided into three age cohorts in order to assess how assimilation among host-society individuals unfolds across cohorts. The project also includes interviews with key informants in each locale and observational data. The project has the potential to transform the social-scientific understanding of assimilation by providing a fuller account of how both immigrants "guest" and native-born "hosts" participate in assimilation.Broader ImpactsThe project's broader impacts are related to immigration policy (including addressing how immigration may or may not be changing U.S. society). The project will contribute to greater public understanding of the influence of immigration on the United States.