Jody Agius Vallejo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3685455 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jody Agius Vallejo |
| NOMBRES | Jody Agius |
| APELLIDO | Vallejo |
| FIRMA | VALLEJO J A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Betting on Business
Entrepreneurship is a mobility mechanism for the immigrant generation, but second-generation Asian Americans are often assumed to shun business ownership in favor of entering the professional labor market. However, there is reason to believe that entrepreneurship is a common and important mobility pathway for the second generation. We explore this possibility by investigating second-generation Chinese Americans who bet on business. Using fieldwor…
Getting Involved
Jody Agius Vallejo sits down with immigrant rights activist and attorney, Lizbeth Mateo
Investing in the Homeland
The ties that immigrants maintain across national borders are important indicators of both patterns of global interconnectedness and the incorporation of immigrants in their host countries. Scholars acknowledge that cross-border ties are extensive but debate the persistence of these ties following migration. We propose that simultaneously studying the home and host country financial investments of three large immigrant groups in the United States…
Immigrants and wealth attainment
Wealth is an important measure of advantage and disadvantage, especially in a global context of wage stagnation, growing debt, and rising inequality. We see research on the wealth attainment of immigrants and their descendants as fundamental to understanding patterns of migration, stratification, and integration. The collection of papers in this volume link ethnic and migration studies to literatures on wealth inequality and demonstrate how indiv…
Barrios to Burbs
Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. This book offers a new understanding of the Mexican-American experience. It explores the challenges that accompany rapid …
Barrios to Burbs
Socially Mobile Mexican Americans and the Minority Culture of Mobility
Based on 50 in-depth interviews and extensive fieldwork, this article contributes to the literature on inequality and middle-class minorities by examining socially mobile Mexican Americans-those who were raised in low-income households, but who are now middle class. Mexican Americans who achieve extreme rates of intergenerational mobility straddle class and ethnic contexts, a position that is accompanied by a set of challenges that are unique to …
Achieving Anew
Reviewed by: Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods Jody Agius Vallejo Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods By Michael J. White and Jennifer E. Glick Russell Sage Foundation Press. 2009. 256 pages. $37.50 cloth. Americans are nostalgic about their own immigrant roots and the positive contributions immigrants have made to society. Yet, Americans are also conc…
Latina Spaces
This article examines the incorporation of middle–class Latinas in Southern California. Based on three years of participant observation, 30 in–depth interviews, and 50 conversational interviews with the organization's members, I find that the upwardly mobile Latinas mobilize “middle–class ethnic capital” to create professional associations in ethnic communities that provide valuable business skills, networks, and social capital to coethnics. Memb…
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Latina Spaces
This article examines the incorporation of middle–class Latinas in Southern California. Based on three years of participant observation, 30 in–depth interviews, and 50 conversational interviews with the organization's members, I find that the upwardly mobile Latinas mobilize “middle–class ethnic capital” to create professional associations in ethnic communities that provide valuable business skills, networks, and social capital to coethnics. Memb…
Immigrants and wealth attainment
Wealth is an important measure of advantage and disadvantage, especially in a global context of wage stagnation, growing debt, and rising inequality. We see research on the wealth attainment of immigrants and their descendants as fundamental to understanding patterns of migration, stratification, and integration. The collection of papers in this volume link ethnic and migration studies to literatures on wealth inequality and demonstrate how indiv…
Socially Mobile Mexican Americans and the Minority Culture of Mobility
Based on 50 in-depth interviews and extensive fieldwork, this article contributes to the literature on inequality and middle-class minorities by examining socially mobile Mexican Americans-those who were raised in low-income households, but who are now middle class. Mexican Americans who achieve extreme rates of intergenerational mobility straddle class and ethnic contexts, a position that is accompanied by a set of challenges that are unique to …
Investing in the Homeland
The ties that immigrants maintain across national borders are important indicators of both patterns of global interconnectedness and the incorporation of immigrants in their host countries. Scholars acknowledge that cross-border ties are extensive but debate the persistence of these ties following migration. We propose that simultaneously studying the home and host country financial investments of three large immigrant groups in the United States…
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Latina Spaces
This article examines the incorporation of middle–class Latinas in Southern California. Based on three years of participant observation, 30 in–depth interviews, and 50 conversational interviews with the organization's members, I find that the upwardly mobile Latinas mobilize “middle–class ethnic capital” to create professional associations in ethnic communities that provide valuable business skills, networks, and social capital to coethnics. Memb…
Achieving Anew
Reviewed by: Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods Jody Agius Vallejo Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods By Michael J. White and Jennifer E. Glick Russell Sage Foundation Press. 2009. 256 pages. $37.50 cloth. Americans are nostalgic about their own immigrant roots and the positive contributions immigrants have made to society. Yet, Americans are also conc…
Barrios to Burbs
Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. This book offers a new understanding of the Mexican-American experience. It explores the challenges that accompany rapid …
Barrios to Burbs
Socially Mobile Mexican Americans and the Minority Culture of Mobility
Based on 50 in-depth interviews and extensive fieldwork, this article contributes to the literature on inequality and middle-class minorities by examining socially mobile Mexican Americans-those who were raised in low-income households, but who are now middle class. Mexican Americans who achieve extreme rates of intergenerational mobility straddle class and ethnic contexts, a position that is accompanied by a set of challenges that are unique to …
Getting Involved
Jody Agius Vallejo sits down with immigrant rights activist and attorney, Lizbeth Mateo
Investing in the Homeland
The ties that immigrants maintain across national borders are important indicators of both patterns of global interconnectedness and the incorporation of immigrants in their host countries. Scholars acknowledge that cross-border ties are extensive but debate the persistence of these ties following migration. We propose that simultaneously studying the home and host country financial investments of three large immigrant groups in the United States…
Immigrants and wealth attainment
Wealth is an important measure of advantage and disadvantage, especially in a global context of wage stagnation, growing debt, and rising inequality. We see research on the wealth attainment of immigrants and their descendants as fundamental to understanding patterns of migration, stratification, and integration. The collection of papers in this volume link ethnic and migration studies to literatures on wealth inequality and demonstrate how indiv…
Betting on Business
Entrepreneurship is a mobility mechanism for the immigrant generation, but second-generation Asian Americans are often assumed to shun business ownership in favor of entering the professional labor market. However, there is reason to believe that entrepreneurship is a common and important mobility pathway for the second generation. We explore this possibility by investigating second-generation Chinese Americans who bet on business. Using fieldwor…
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (9 obras) · Immigration (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Ethnic group (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Social mobility (4 obras) · Development economics (3 obras)