Ivan Light
Biographic Data
| ID | 112161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Light |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Light |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHT I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9832-3008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 617 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Trump's Charisma
Max Weber insisted that followers grant charismatic authority, but he did not address the cultural prerequisites that enable leaders to acquire it from them. Prophecy is the royal road. When a prophetic tradition has taught people to expect saviors in times of crisis, believers are primed to award charismatic authority to someone who resembles their expectation. The case of Donald Trump illustrates the importance of prophecy on the bestowal of ch…
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Immigrant Absorption in the United States and Israel
Israel and the United States are among the five nations of the world that encourage foreigners to migrate to settle and then to accept citizenship. This common policy causes common problems and experiences in both countries.... This book...opens the ...discussion about how Israel and the USA deal with immigration and how they are transformed by it. Approaching the discussion from the point of view of contemporary immigration research [it] priorit…
Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Many nations invite foreigners to work within their borders, but few welcome them. Those countries that do receive a torrent of immigrants create pressures that analysts expect to intensify as population growth and social unrest mount in the less developed countries of the world. Immigration and Entrepreneurship, now in paperback, offers a comparative analysis of worldwide immigration issues while focusing more specifically on the emerging influe…
Immigration, Deflection of
Immigration is deflected when an existing migratory influx seeks new prime destinations without reduction of the aggregate volume of influx.
The migration industry in the United States, 1882-1924
Recent interest in the migration industry has produced no consensus on its boundaries. Some researchers limit the concept to travel-related business; others expand the scope to include additional immigration-supporting commercial businesses, legal and illegal. Using historical evidence, this article addresses treatment of the migration industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These treatments introduced the same concep-tual issues that…
Mexican Population Growth in New US Destinations
As the preferred theory for understanding international migration, social capital theory (SCT) structures current debate about Mexican population growth in new US metropolitan destinations. We review this literature to show that SCT does not cover the secondary migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants from traditional to new US metropolitan destinations. As a complement to previous SCT applications, we develop two hypotheses about t…
Minimum Wage and Mexican and Central American Influx
In the 1990s, thirteen American states raised their minimum wage above the federal level, while the other thirty-five contiguous states retained the lower federal standard. An increased minimum wage should reduce employment among the lowest-paid workers, and therefore reduce their influx. Using individual-level data from the 5% Public Use Sample of the 2000 U.S. Census of Population, this research examines the effects of forty-eight contiguous U.…
Two forms of community entrepreneurship in Finland
Every reindeer herder in Finland belongs to one of 56 co-operatives, each known as a paliskunta. In addition, some reindeer owners herd using the folkloric siida model of co-operation. Content analysis of interviews conducted with reindeer herders - referred to as reindeer husbandry entrepreneurs, by the Reindeer Herders' Association - from two ethnic communities in Finland, reveals that respondents who identified themselves as ethnic Finns viewe…
Immigrants and Boomers
Book Review| April 01 2009 Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America, Dowell Myers. Ivan Light Ivan Light Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (3): 117–118. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543447 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
The Metropolitan Dispersion of Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
When networks coordinate a protracted, high-volume influx of low-wage immigrants, they focus on vulnerable people within a handful of reception localities. As a result, immigrants gradually saturate the high-volume network destinations, causing immigrants' rents to rise and their wages to fall. Deteriorated rent-to-wages ratios then impel the immigrants to disperse their settlement to non-traditional destinations where more favourable economic co…
Mexican Migration Networks in the United States, 1980–2000
Between 1980 and 2000, about 1.2 million Mexican immigrants settled in 47 new settlement states. In the past, these immigrants would have settled in California, Texas, or Illinois, the three traditional states for Mexican settlement. Explaining this dispersion, the network saturation theory claims that high-volume migration of Mexicans finally saturated the housing and job opportunities of Mexicans in traditional states and especially in Los Ange…
The Informal Economy Buffer, Migration Chains, and Poverty Intolerance
Women's Economic Niches and Earnings Inferiority
Approaching women's economic niches and earnings inferiority from the point of view of the ethnic economy literature, this paper introduces new data on women's entrepreneurship. Like ethnic minority employers, who prefer co-ethnic employees, women employers exhibit a hiring preference for women. As it does for ethnic minorities, this hiring preference modestly corrects women's earning inferiority, but it does not reduce industrial niching. Althou…
Deflecting Immigration
xv, 246 p. : 23 cm
International Migration
Immigration and ethnic economies in giant cities
Globalisation studies claimed that Third World immigrants flock to world cities because of changed income distributions. On this argument, the increasingly hourglass-shaped income structure of world cities, a product of global restructuring, creates self-renewing demand for skilled and unskilled workers in those very world cities. Critics have already shown that this argument neglects the intermediary role of migration networks, and that, when ac…
Honesty and Trust
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration
Book Review| October 01 2003 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 2, the New Immigrant in the American Economy Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 2, the New Immigrant in the American Economy, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desirée Qin-Hilliard. Ivan Light Ivan Light Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 10…
Ethnic Economies
Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-Speaking World
Investigating the relationship between immigration, middleman minority status, transnationalism, and U.S. foreign trade, the authors assembled a census-based data file that contains aggregate-level variables for 88 foreign-born groups by national origin between 1980 and 1990. They regressed immigrant characteristics and immigration volume upon time-lagged import/export statistics from the same 88 nations between 1985 and 1995. Results show the in…
Immigrant Place Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, 1970-99
Proclamations of the death of Los Angeles' growth machine are premature. These proclamations overlook the growing role of immigrant Korean and Chinese entrepreneurs in regional property development. Since 1970, Korean and Chinese entrepreneurs have seriously restructured Los Angeles' morphology, creating hierarchically arranged residential and business clusters for co-ethnic immigrants. Koreatown and Monterey Park are the brand names most familia…
Globalization, Transnationalism and Trade
Investigating the relationship between immigration, middleman minority status, transnationalism and US foreign trade, the author assembled a census-based data file that contains aggregate-level variables for 88 foreign born groups by national-origin between 1980 and 1990. Immigrant characteristics and immigration volume were regressed upon time-lagged import/export statistics from the same 88 nations between 1985 and 1995. Results show the indepe…
The Global Ethnopolis
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Immigrant and ethnic enterprise in North America
1984). Immigrant and ethnic enterprise in North America. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 195-216
Beyond the Ethnic Enclave Economy
The terms “ethnic economy” and “ethnic enclave economy” designate an immigrant or minority business and employment sector that coexists with the general economy. Users often treat these terms as synonymous. In fact, they are not. The concept of ethnic enclave economy derives from the labor segmentation literature, whereas the concept of ethnic economy derives from the middleman minorities literature. The derivations have shaped the problems that …
Disadvantaged Minorities in Self-Employment
Ethnic Entrepreneurs in America's Largest Metropolitan Areas
Using 1990 census data, the authors compare 77 immigrant and ethnic groups in the 16 largest metropolitan regions in the United States. They find that the interaction effect of location and ethnicity on ethnic entrepreneurship is evident not only in self-employment rates but also in niche concentrations and niche competition. Their results reveal a distinction between main-stream groups and nonmainstream groups. Compared to mainstream groups, non…
Internal ethnicity in the ethnic economy
Internal ethnicity refers to ethnic subgroups within an immigrant group. An 'ethnic economy' includes the self-employed and their co-ethnic workers. Although most research treats the boundaries of 'ethnic economy' and its variant, the 'ethnic enclave economy', as though they were coterminous with those of national-origin immigrant groups, this assumption is unreliable. Ethnic boundaries need not coincide with those of nationality origin when inte…
Numbers Gambling Among Blacks
Mainstream financial institutions have never been able to provide generally prevailing service levels in poor communities. In the resulting partial-service vacuum, blacks invented numbers gambling. Numbers-gambling banks became sources of capital and a major savings device of urban black communities. In conjunction with the usury industry, numbers banks framed an alternative institutional system for the savings-investment cycle in the slum. Numbe…
Koreans in business
The Ethnic Vice Industry, 1880-1944
It was convenient for big cities to house prostitution in non-white, ethnic communities, but blacks and Chinese organized prostitution differently
From Vice District to Tourist Attraction
Research Article| August 01 1974 From Vice District to Tourist Attraction: The Moral Career of American Chinatowns, 1880-1940 Ivan Light Ivan Light Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1974) 43 (3): 367–394. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638262 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Too…
Protest or Work
In the compettitio between institutional and cultural theories of American poverty, the success of Chinese-Americans has provided telling evidence for the cultural view. However, recent events in American Chinatowns show that the cultural interpretation was overdrawn. The dependence of Chinatowns upon the tourist in dustry has constrained residents to suppress visible manifestations of social unrest and pathology in order to attract customers. Th…
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Korean Rotating Credit Associations in Los Angeles
(1990). Korean Rotating Credit Associations in Los Angeles. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 35-54
Immigrant Entrepreneurs in 272 SMSAs
Utilizing data collected from the 1980 public-use sample of the U.S. Census, we examine the effect of percentage foreign born in the labor force upon aggregate self-employment rate in 272 SMSAs. Because mean self-employment among the foreign born was higher than among the native born, an increased percentage in the foreign born in a SMSA labor force caused increased aggregate self-employment. Also, as a result of renewed immigration during the 19…
Immigrant Place Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, 1970-99
Proclamations of the death of Los Angeles' growth machine are premature. These proclamations overlook the growing role of immigrant Korean and Chinese entrepreneurs in regional property development. Since 1970, Korean and Chinese entrepreneurs have seriously restructured Los Angeles' morphology, creating hierarchically arranged residential and business clusters for co-ethnic immigrants. Koreatown and Monterey Park are the brand names most familia…
Mexican Migration Networks in the United States, 1980–2000
Between 1980 and 2000, about 1.2 million Mexican immigrants settled in 47 new settlement states. In the past, these immigrants would have settled in California, Texas, or Illinois, the three traditional states for Mexican settlement. Explaining this dispersion, the network saturation theory claims that high-volume migration of Mexicans finally saturated the housing and job opportunities of Mexicans in traditional states and especially in Los Ange…
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Stressing the network's facilitation of immigrants’ searches for jobs and housing, migration network theory has conceptually overlooked the manner in which immigrants’ social networks also expand the supply of jobs and housing in target destinations by means of the ethnic economy. An expanded migration network theory takes into account the ethnic economy's role in creating new resources in the destination economy. However, the power of this objec…
Women's Economic Niches and Earnings Inferiority
Approaching women's economic niches and earnings inferiority from the point of view of the ethnic economy literature, this paper introduces new data on women's entrepreneurship. Like ethnic minority employers, who prefer co-ethnic employees, women employers exhibit a hiring preference for women. As it does for ethnic minorities, this hiring preference modestly corrects women's earning inferiority, but it does not reduce industrial niching. Althou…
Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-Speaking World
Investigating the relationship between immigration, middleman minority status, transnationalism, and U.S. foreign trade, the authors assembled a census-based data file that contains aggregate-level variables for 88 foreign-born groups by national origin between 1980 and 1990. They regressed immigrant characteristics and immigration volume upon time-lagged import/export statistics from the same 88 nations between 1985 and 1995. Results show the in…
The Income Consequences of Ethnic Entrepreneurial Concentrations
Based on the 1990 census data for America's 16 largest metropolitan regions, this study assesses the propensities of immigrants and minorities to become self-employed and concentrate in particular niches in different metropolitan regions in relation to earnings. Massive gravitation of nonmainstream groups into self-employment was found to be associated with a low earnings advantage of self-employment, particularly where the self-employed concentr…
The migration industry in the United States, 1882-1924
Recent interest in the migration industry has produced no consensus on its boundaries. Some researchers limit the concept to travel-related business; others expand the scope to include additional immigration-supporting commercial businesses, legal and illegal. Using historical evidence, this article addresses treatment of the migration industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These treatments introduced the same concep-tual issues that…
Two forms of community entrepreneurship in Finland
Every reindeer herder in Finland belongs to one of 56 co-operatives, each known as a paliskunta. In addition, some reindeer owners herd using the folkloric siida model of co-operation. Content analysis of interviews conducted with reindeer herders - referred to as reindeer husbandry entrepreneurs, by the Reindeer Herders' Association - from two ethnic communities in Finland, reveals that respondents who identified themselves as ethnic Finns viewe…
The Metropolitan Dispersion of Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
When networks coordinate a protracted, high-volume influx of low-wage immigrants, they focus on vulnerable people within a handful of reception localities. As a result, immigrants gradually saturate the high-volume network destinations, causing immigrants' rents to rise and their wages to fall. Deteriorated rent-to-wages ratios then impel the immigrants to disperse their settlement to non-traditional destinations where more favourable economic co…
Immigration and ethnic economies in giant cities
Globalisation studies claimed that Third World immigrants flock to world cities because of changed income distributions. On this argument, the increasingly hourglass-shaped income structure of world cities, a product of global restructuring, creates self-renewing demand for skilled and unskilled workers in those very world cities. Critics have already shown that this argument neglects the intermediary role of migration networks, and that, when ac…
Trump's Charisma
Max Weber insisted that followers grant charismatic authority, but he did not address the cultural prerequisites that enable leaders to acquire it from them. Prophecy is the royal road. When a prophetic tradition has taught people to expect saviors in times of crisis, believers are primed to award charismatic authority to someone who resembles their expectation. The case of Donald Trump illustrates the importance of prophecy on the bestowal of ch…
Afterword
(1998). AFTERWORD: MATURATION OF THE ETHNIC ECONOMY PARADIGM. Urban Geography: Vol. 19, Geographical Aspects of Ethnic Economies, pp. 577-581
Ethnic Enterprise in America
Ethnic Enterprise in America
Manpower Movements and Labor Markets
Ethnic Enterprise in America
Book-length study of black, Chinese, and Japanese self-employment in northern cities of the United States, 1880-1940, Self-employment is explained as a product of moral communities resulting from migration networks
From Vice District to Tourist Attraction
Research Article| August 01 1974 From Vice District to Tourist Attraction: The Moral Career of American Chinatowns, 1880-1940 Ivan Light Ivan Light Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1974) 43 (3): 367–394. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638262 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Too…
Reassessments of sociological history C. Wright Mills and the power elite
Chinese Americans. Stanford M. Lyman
Protest or Work
In the compettitio between institutional and cultural theories of American poverty, the success of Chinese-Americans has provided telling evidence for the cultural view. However, recent events in American Chinatowns show that the cultural interpretation was overdrawn. The dependence of Chinatowns upon the tourist in dustry has constrained residents to suppress visible manifestations of social unrest and pathology in order to attract customers. Th…
The World of the Urban Working Class.Marc Fried
Spanish Americans and Indians in the Labor Market
The Unwelcome Immigrant
The Ethnic Vice Industry, 1880-1944
It was convenient for big cities to house prostitution in non-white, ethnic communities, but blacks and Chinese organized prostitution differently
Numbers Gambling Among Blacks
Mainstream financial institutions have never been able to provide generally prevailing service levels in poor communities. In the resulting partial-service vacuum, blacks invented numbers gambling. Numbers-gambling banks became sources of capital and a major savings device of urban black communities. In conjunction with the usury industry, numbers banks framed an alternative institutional system for the savings-investment cycle in the slum. Numbe…
Koreans in business
Disadvantaged Minorities in Self-Employment
The Ethnic Factor in Family Structure and Mobility
African Businessmen and Development in Zambia. Andrew A. Beveridge , Anthony R. Oberschall
The Sociology of Secret Societies
Immigrant and ethnic enterprise in North America
1984). Immigrant and ethnic enterprise in North America. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 195-216
Short reviews
Reynolds Farley, BLACKS AND WHITES: NARROWING THE GAP? Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1984, xii + 235 pp., £18.00; $24.75. Alphonso Pinkney, THE MYTH OF BLACK PROGRESS, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, x + 198 pp., £15.00. Walker Connor, THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN MARXIST‐LENINIST THEORY AND STRATEGY, Princeton University Press, 1984. xvii + 614 pp, £47.00/$47.50 (h.b); £11.20; $14.50 (p.b.). Ira Katznelson, CITY TRENCHES: …
Cities in World Perspective
The Lenin-Hobson Theory of Imperialism
My undergraduate lecture course in economy and society includes a section on the capitalist world system in the twentieth century. The Lenin-Hobson theory of imperialism provides the central issues under discussion in this section. The Lenin-Hobson theory represents Lenin's (1939) Marxist interpretation of Hobson's (1902) liberal critique of imperialism. Now a fundamental of communist theory everywhere, the Lenin-Hobson theory explains imperialis…
Urbanist Theory
The Fourth Wave
Through the Eye of the Needle
To many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited.Deaf World thus concerns itself less with the perspectives of the hearing and more with what Deaf people themselves think and do. Editor Lois Bragg asserts that English is for many signing people a second, infrequently used language and that Deaf culture is the socially transmitted pattern of behavior, values, beliefs, and expression of those who use American Sign Language.…
Political science (55 works) · Sociology (50 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (43 works) · Economics (35 works) · Immigration (30 works) · Law (27 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (26 works) · Ethnic group (24 works) · Demographic economics (19 works) · Geography (18 works)