Del Real, Deisy
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Venezuelans constitute the second largest displaced population globally. Most Venezuelans move to Colombia, where the government incorporates them through administrative legalization programs. While the international community has praised Colombia's governmental response, this article demonstrates that these programs provide Venezuelans with limina...
Ye, Leafia Zi Fletcher, Jason
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Social scientists have long debated whether high-achieving students of color are socially sanctioned. This discussion has rarely focused on immigrant students, who are exceptionally diverse in their educational performance and face challenges in social integration at school. This article assesses whether the effect of academic achievement on U.S. a...
Kihara, Tate
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
This study explores the socioeconomic selectivity of Japanese male immigrants who migrated to the continental United States (US) during the Age of Mass Migration (mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century) by comparing the US administrative records of Japanese long-term immigrants interned during World War 2 (WRA records) with a Japanese social...
Hofmann, Erin Trouth Chi, Guangqing
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Because the decision to migrate is a product of gendered negotiations within households, households formed through forced marriage may have different migration strategies than households formed through voluntary marriage. In Kyrgyzstan, we anticipate two possible effects of the traditional practice of bride kidnapping on migration. Households heade...
Agadjanian, Victor Oh, Byeongdon Menjívar, Cecilia
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Legal status has shown far-reaching consequences for international migrants' incorporation trajectories and outcomes in Western contexts. In dialogue with the extant research, we examine the implications of legal status for subjective well-being of Central Asian migrant women in the Russian Federation. Using survey data collected through respondent...
Ghimire, Dirgha Zhang, Yang Williams, Nathalie
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Migration of men has important influences on reshaping family and gender roles in left-behind wives. However, it is unclear whether husbands' out-migration increases the burden on or creates autonomy for left-behind wives. Using new data from Nepal, we examine the associations of husband's out-migration and remittance status with the work burden an...
Kreisberg, A Nicole Hsin, Amy
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Despite growth in the number of Latino students enrolled in U.S. colleges, foreign-born Latinos are less likely than both native-born Latinos and other immigrant groups to graduate. However, it is difficult to understand the lower educational attainment of Latino immigrants without considering variation in enrollment by legal status. After all, unt...
Wassink, Joshua Hagan, Jacqueline
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Recent estimates suggest that nearly half of all international migrants return to their communities of origin within five years of emigration. Motivated by high levels of return migration, scholars are increasingly investigating the ways in which return migrants mobilize resources they acquire abroad, such as human and financial capital, to achieve...
Holzinger, Clara
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
The way we deal with diversity is crucial for social equity in the context of migration-related super-diversityand represents a challenge for all actors involved. The present article aims to contribute to the understanding of linguistic discrimination by contrasting the perceptions of institutional actors and mobile European citizens concerning lan...
Qian, Zhenchao Qian, Yue
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies
The influx of immigrants from Asia to the United States (U.S.) has expanded the pool of coethnic marriageable partners, strengthened racial identity, and contributed to the decline in interracial marriage with whites among Asian Americans. Yet, retreat from interracial marriage with whites may well vary by immigrant generation, an important factor ...
