Helen B Marrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 115015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen B Marrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen B |
| FAMILY NAME | Marrow |
| SIGNATURE | MARROW H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0261-6207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 700 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Imagined Exit as Voice: Americans’ Emigration Aspirations Under Obama and Trump
This article interrogates whether, and if so how, political factors underlie the migration aspirations of US-born citizens—a group of people often assumed to have the privilege and options to relocate elsewhere, typically “voluntarily” and for a mix of economic or social/cultural/lifestyle reasons, rather than being pushed out politically by war, revolution, or violence. Drawing on a unique, nationally-representative panel of 1,764 US-born citize…
A Relational Approach to Perceived Discrimination: The Case of South Asian Indians
Perceived discrimination is often theorized within a bounded social context, and much of this literature focuses on how structural and socioeconomic factors shape minorities’ perceptions of discrimination. However, immigrants exist in varied social contexts given their exposure to both home and destination countries. In this study, we propose a relational framework to understand how stratification systems in one's country of origin and relative g…
Skin Tone and Mexicans’ Perceptions of Discrimination in New Immigrant Destinations
Colorism literature examines how skin tone—alongside prototypical group features and hairstyles—correlates with socioeconomic, health, and political outcomes. Yet few studies have explicitly operationalized how skin tone shapes Latinos’ experiences of racialization in “new” U.S. destinations. Here, we draw on a large, representative sample of Mexican immigrants (N = 500) living in two large metropolitan areas (Atlanta and Philadelphia) to investi…
Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality
Modeling American Migration Aspirations: How Capital, Race, and National Identity Shape Americans’ Ideas about Living Abroad
Recent scholarship proposes a “two-step” approach for better understanding mechanisms underlying the migration process, suggesting we study migration aspirations separately from migration behavior and that the one does not always translate directly into the other. Research on aspirations, however, concentrates on the Global South, despite growing migration flows originating in the Global North. Here, we fill this gap, drawing on a nationally repr…
Welcoming, Trust, and Civic Engagement: Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan America
Prior studies have sought to understand how immigrants integrate into U.S. society, focusing on the ways in which local contexts and institutions limit immigrant incorporation. In this study, we consider how interactions among immigrants and U.S.-born within receiving communities contribute to the process of immigrant integration. We emphasize the extent to which immigrants perceive that they are welcome in their social environments and the downs…
Hope turned sour: Second-generation incorporation and mobility in U.S. new immigrant destinations
The number and size of "new immigrant destinations" (NIDs) in the United States grew quickly over the 1990s and 2000s, but Latino newcomers residing in them witnessed a profound negative turn in institutional and political reception after 2005. The present article takes stock of the causes and consequences of this shift, showing how intensifying enforcement and exclusionary policy-making at the federal and state levels after 2005 stoked anti-immi…
How Does Interracial Contact Among the U.S.-Born Shape White and Black Receptivity Toward Immigrants
A notable increase in immigration into the United States over the past half century, coupled with its recent geographic dispersion into new communities nationwide, has fueled contact among a wider set of individuals and groups than ever before. Past research has helped us understand Whites’ and Blacks’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, and even how contact between Blacks and Whites have shaped their attitudes toward one another. Nevert…
Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity
Michael Jones-Correa, Helen B. Marrow, Dina G. Okamoto, Linda R. Tropp, Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 47-80
How Contact Experiences Shape Welcoming: Perspectives from U.S.-Born and Immigrant Groups
This research examines how intergroup contact experiences—including both their frequency and their qualities (friendly, discriminatory)—predict indicators of welcoming among U.S.-born and immigrant groups. Analyzing a new survey of U.S.-born groups (whites and blacks) and immigrant groups (Mexicans and Indians) from the Atlanta and Philadelphia metropolitan areas (total N = 2,006), we examine welcoming as a key dimension of social integration. Al…
On the Line: Latino Life in New Immigrant Destinations after 2005
Health care, immigrants, and minorities: Lessons from the affordable care act in the U.S
By the twenty-first century, the number of people migrating across international borders had grown substantially, spurred by ongoing economic, political, and environmental change in the Global Sout
Out of context: The absence of geographic variation in US immigrants' perceptions of discrimination
Immigrants' perceptions of discrimination (PD) correlate strongly with various political outcomes, including group consciousness and partisan identity. Here, we examine the hypothesis that immigrants' PD vary across US localities, as threatened responses by native-born residents may increase perceived discrimination among neighboring immigrants. We also consider the alternative hypothesis that barriers to the expression and detection of discrimin…
Doing Good: Racial Tensions and Workplace Inequalities at a Community Clinic in El Nuevo South
Excluded and Frozen Out: Unauthorised Immigrants' (Non)Access to Care after US Health Care Reform
Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 extends public and private insurance to 32 million individuals in the USA, it expressly excludes unauthorised adult immigrants from participating in the federally-subsidised state health exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. In this article, we show that the ACA has deepened the ‘brightness’ of unauthorised immigrants’ symbolic and social exclusion within the US health care system via a significant bou…
Mexican Americans as a paradigm for contemporary intra-group heterogeneity
Racialization and assimilation offer alternative perspectives on the position of immigrant-origin populations in American society. We question the adequacy of either perspective alone in the early twenty-first century, taking Mexican Americans as our case in point. Re-analysing the child sample of the Mexican American Study Project, we uncover substantial heterogeneity marked by vulnerability to racialization at one end but proximity to the mains…
Assimilation in New Destinations
This article outlines a long-term research agenda on immigrant assimilation by calling on scholars to be more explicit about how we model and measure assimilation, and to move away from previously aspatial approaches to the topic. After briefly overviewing the field, I draw on original qualitative data from a new immigrant destination region to highlight several places where I believe we scholars can better clarify definitions of and assumptions …
In Ireland ‘Latin Americans are kind of cool: Evaluating a national context of reception with a transnational lens
In this article, I analyze how government policies and social reception shaped Latin Americans’ patterns of incorporation and identity formation in Ireland, a new immigrant destination country in Europe where Latin American migrants lack both historical presence and (neo)colonial linkages, in the early 2000s. I show that Latin Americans in Ireland perceived a weaker form of racialization, not only than several other immigrant, refugee and racial …
The Latino South: The state of the field – A review essay
Deserving to a point: Unauthorized immigrants in San Francisco's universal access healthcare model
The power of local autonomy: Expanding health care to unauthorized immigrants in San Francisco
I analyse the mechanisms through which an inclusive local policy environment in the integrated city-county of San Francisco operates to improve unauthorized immigrants' access to and utilization of health care. Within - but not outside - the bounds of this inclusive local context, committed providers reported being able to provide attention to unauthorized immigrants without worrying about the direct costs of doing so; to buffer, marshal resource…
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South
New Destination Dreaming examines how the rural South, as a "new destination" far from the traditional American immigrant urban gateways, affects Hispanic newcomers' patterns of economic, sociocultural, and political incorporation.
Latino Lives in America: Making it Home
New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965
Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of Professional Missions and Government Policies
Drawing on original qualitative research, this article investigates how natives and institutions in rural America's "new immigrant destinations" are adapting, if at all, to Hispanic newcomers and whether corresponding interaction should be viewed as substantively responsive. In contrast to predictions made by traditional political incorporation theories, results based on semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork suggest that Hispanic …
Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of Professional Missions and Government Policies
Drawing on original qualitative research, this article investigates how natives and institutions in rural America's "new immigrant destinations" are adapting, if at all, to Hispanic newcomers and whether corresponding interaction should be viewed as substantively responsive. In contrast to predictions made by traditional political incorporation theories, results based on semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork suggest that Hispanic …
Deserving to a point: Unauthorized immigrants in San Francisco's universal access healthcare model
New immigrant destinations and the American colour line
I analyse how Hispanic newcomers are becoming incorporated into the rural southern racial hierarchy during an early stage of immigration. I examine patterns in newcomers' (1) racial/ethnic identifications and (2) social interactions with whites and blacks, showing how and why they lend preliminary support to a black/nonblack colour line model, in which the central distinction separates the positions of people with African ancestry from all others…
Mexican Americans as a paradigm for contemporary intra-group heterogeneity
Racialization and assimilation offer alternative perspectives on the position of immigrant-origin populations in American society. We question the adequacy of either perspective alone in the early twenty-first century, taking Mexican Americans as our case in point. Re-analysing the child sample of the Mexican American Study Project, we uncover substantial heterogeneity marked by vulnerability to racialization at one end but proximity to the mains…
New Destinations and Immigrant Incorporation
Does the academic literature on U.S. immigration adequately capture the experiences of immigrants outside their traditional areas of concentration? This article reviews the three major fields of research in immigrant incorporation—economic, sociocultural, and political. It emphasizes the two most prominent conceptual frameworks in each: the human capital frame and the more recent sociological frame, which highlights "modes of incorporation" and "…
To be or not to be (Hispanic or Latino): Brazilian Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States
I use 1990 US census data and 22 semi-structured interviews with Brazilian immigrant youth in Boston to show how Brazilians are becoming racialized into the black-white binary of American society, but how over time they manage to escape the downward mobility of Hispanic/Latino categorization by becoming ‘American’ and playing off US natives’ Spanish-centered understanding of Hispanics/Latinos (which does not include them). Successful Americanizat…
Excluded and Frozen Out: Unauthorised Immigrants' (Non)Access to Care after US Health Care Reform
Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 extends public and private insurance to 32 million individuals in the USA, it expressly excludes unauthorised adult immigrants from participating in the federally-subsidised state health exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. In this article, we show that the ACA has deepened the ‘brightness’ of unauthorised immigrants’ symbolic and social exclusion within the US health care system via a significant bou…
The power of local autonomy: Expanding health care to unauthorized immigrants in San Francisco
I analyse the mechanisms through which an inclusive local policy environment in the integrated city-county of San Francisco operates to improve unauthorized immigrants' access to and utilization of health care. Within - but not outside - the bounds of this inclusive local context, committed providers reported being able to provide attention to unauthorized immigrants without worrying about the direct costs of doing so; to buffer, marshal resource…
Hope turned sour: Second-generation incorporation and mobility in U.S. new immigrant destinations
The number and size of "new immigrant destinations" (NIDs) in the United States grew quickly over the 1990s and 2000s, but Latino newcomers residing in them witnessed a profound negative turn in institutional and political reception after 2005. The present article takes stock of the causes and consequences of this shift, showing how intensifying enforcement and exclusionary policy-making at the federal and state levels after 2005 stoked anti-immi…
Health care, immigrants, and minorities: Lessons from the affordable care act in the U.S
By the twenty-first century, the number of people migrating across international borders had grown substantially, spurred by ongoing economic, political, and environmental change in the Global Sout
Assimilation in New Destinations
This article outlines a long-term research agenda on immigrant assimilation by calling on scholars to be more explicit about how we model and measure assimilation, and to move away from previously aspatial approaches to the topic. After briefly overviewing the field, I draw on original qualitative data from a new immigrant destination region to highlight several places where I believe we scholars can better clarify definitions of and assumptions …
How Contact Experiences Shape Welcoming: Perspectives from U.S.-Born and Immigrant Groups
This research examines how intergroup contact experiences—including both their frequency and their qualities (friendly, discriminatory)—predict indicators of welcoming among U.S.-born and immigrant groups. Analyzing a new survey of U.S.-born groups (whites and blacks) and immigrant groups (Mexicans and Indians) from the Atlanta and Philadelphia metropolitan areas (total N = 2,006), we examine welcoming as a key dimension of social integration. Al…
Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity
Michael Jones-Correa, Helen B. Marrow, Dina G. Okamoto, Linda R. Tropp, Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 47-80
Skin Tone and Mexicans’ Perceptions of Discrimination in New Immigrant Destinations
Colorism literature examines how skin tone—alongside prototypical group features and hairstyles—correlates with socioeconomic, health, and political outcomes. Yet few studies have explicitly operationalized how skin tone shapes Latinos’ experiences of racialization in “new” U.S. destinations. Here, we draw on a large, representative sample of Mexican immigrants (N = 500) living in two large metropolitan areas (Atlanta and Philadelphia) to investi…
Modeling American Migration Aspirations: How Capital, Race, and National Identity Shape Americans’ Ideas about Living Abroad
Recent scholarship proposes a “two-step” approach for better understanding mechanisms underlying the migration process, suggesting we study migration aspirations separately from migration behavior and that the one does not always translate directly into the other. Research on aspirations, however, concentrates on the Global South, despite growing migration flows originating in the Global North. Here, we fill this gap, drawing on a nationally repr…
Welcoming, Trust, and Civic Engagement: Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan America
Prior studies have sought to understand how immigrants integrate into U.S. society, focusing on the ways in which local contexts and institutions limit immigrant incorporation. In this study, we consider how interactions among immigrants and U.S.-born within receiving communities contribute to the process of immigrant integration. We emphasize the extent to which immigrants perceive that they are welcome in their social environments and the downs…
How Does Interracial Contact Among the U.S.-Born Shape White and Black Receptivity Toward Immigrants
A notable increase in immigration into the United States over the past half century, coupled with its recent geographic dispersion into new communities nationwide, has fueled contact among a wider set of individuals and groups than ever before. Past research has helped us understand Whites’ and Blacks’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, and even how contact between Blacks and Whites have shaped their attitudes toward one another. Nevert…
Out of context: The absence of geographic variation in US immigrants' perceptions of discrimination
Immigrants' perceptions of discrimination (PD) correlate strongly with various political outcomes, including group consciousness and partisan identity. Here, we examine the hypothesis that immigrants' PD vary across US localities, as threatened responses by native-born residents may increase perceived discrimination among neighboring immigrants. We also consider the alternative hypothesis that barriers to the expression and detection of discrimin…
In Ireland ‘Latin Americans are kind of cool: Evaluating a national context of reception with a transnational lens
In this article, I analyze how government policies and social reception shaped Latin Americans’ patterns of incorporation and identity formation in Ireland, a new immigrant destination country in Europe where Latin American migrants lack both historical presence and (neo)colonial linkages, in the early 2000s. I show that Latin Americans in Ireland perceived a weaker form of racialization, not only than several other immigrant, refugee and racial …
Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality
A Relational Approach to Perceived Discrimination: The Case of South Asian Indians
Perceived discrimination is often theorized within a bounded social context, and much of this literature focuses on how structural and socioeconomic factors shape minorities’ perceptions of discrimination. However, immigrants exist in varied social contexts given their exposure to both home and destination countries. In this study, we propose a relational framework to understand how stratification systems in one's country of origin and relative g…
To be or not to be (Hispanic or Latino): Brazilian Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States
I use 1990 US census data and 22 semi-structured interviews with Brazilian immigrant youth in Boston to show how Brazilians are becoming racialized into the black-white binary of American society, but how over time they manage to escape the downward mobility of Hispanic/Latino categorization by becoming ‘American’ and playing off US natives’ Spanish-centered understanding of Hispanics/Latinos (which does not include them). Successful Americanizat…
New Destinations and Immigrant Incorporation
Does the academic literature on U.S. immigration adequately capture the experiences of immigrants outside their traditional areas of concentration? This article reviews the three major fields of research in immigrant incorporation—economic, sociocultural, and political. It emphasizes the two most prominent conceptual frameworks in each: the human capital frame and the more recent sociological frame, which highlights "modes of incorporation" and "…
The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965
Salsa has replaced ketchup as the most popular condiment. A mosque has been erected around the corner. The local hospital is staffed by Indian doctors and Philippine nurses, and the local grocery store is owned by a Korean family. A single elementary school may include students who speak dozens of different languages at home. This is a snapshot of America at the turn of the 21st Century. The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, s…
New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965
Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of Professional Missions and Government Policies
Drawing on original qualitative research, this article investigates how natives and institutions in rural America's "new immigrant destinations" are adapting, if at all, to Hispanic newcomers and whether corresponding interaction should be viewed as substantively responsive. In contrast to predictions made by traditional political incorporation theories, results based on semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork suggest that Hispanic …
New immigrant destinations and the American colour line
I analyse how Hispanic newcomers are becoming incorporated into the rural southern racial hierarchy during an early stage of immigration. I examine patterns in newcomers' (1) racial/ethnic identifications and (2) social interactions with whites and blacks, showing how and why they lend preliminary support to a black/nonblack colour line model, in which the central distinction separates the positions of people with African ancestry from all others…
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South
New Destination Dreaming examines how the rural South, as a "new destination" far from the traditional American immigrant urban gateways, affects Hispanic newcomers' patterns of economic, sociocultural, and political incorporation.
Latino Lives in America: Making it Home
The Latino South: The state of the field – A review essay
Deserving to a point: Unauthorized immigrants in San Francisco's universal access healthcare model
The power of local autonomy: Expanding health care to unauthorized immigrants in San Francisco
I analyse the mechanisms through which an inclusive local policy environment in the integrated city-county of San Francisco operates to improve unauthorized immigrants' access to and utilization of health care. Within - but not outside - the bounds of this inclusive local context, committed providers reported being able to provide attention to unauthorized immigrants without worrying about the direct costs of doing so; to buffer, marshal resource…
Assimilation in New Destinations
This article outlines a long-term research agenda on immigrant assimilation by calling on scholars to be more explicit about how we model and measure assimilation, and to move away from previously aspatial approaches to the topic. After briefly overviewing the field, I draw on original qualitative data from a new immigrant destination region to highlight several places where I believe we scholars can better clarify definitions of and assumptions …
In Ireland ‘Latin Americans are kind of cool: Evaluating a national context of reception with a transnational lens
In this article, I analyze how government policies and social reception shaped Latin Americans’ patterns of incorporation and identity formation in Ireland, a new immigrant destination country in Europe where Latin American migrants lack both historical presence and (neo)colonial linkages, in the early 2000s. I show that Latin Americans in Ireland perceived a weaker form of racialization, not only than several other immigrant, refugee and racial …
Mexican Americans as a paradigm for contemporary intra-group heterogeneity
Racialization and assimilation offer alternative perspectives on the position of immigrant-origin populations in American society. We question the adequacy of either perspective alone in the early twenty-first century, taking Mexican Americans as our case in point. Re-analysing the child sample of the Mexican American Study Project, we uncover substantial heterogeneity marked by vulnerability to racialization at one end but proximity to the mains…
Doing Good: Racial Tensions and Workplace Inequalities at a Community Clinic in El Nuevo South
Excluded and Frozen Out: Unauthorised Immigrants' (Non)Access to Care after US Health Care Reform
Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 extends public and private insurance to 32 million individuals in the USA, it expressly excludes unauthorised adult immigrants from participating in the federally-subsidised state health exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. In this article, we show that the ACA has deepened the ‘brightness’ of unauthorised immigrants’ symbolic and social exclusion within the US health care system via a significant bou…
Out of context: The absence of geographic variation in US immigrants' perceptions of discrimination
Immigrants' perceptions of discrimination (PD) correlate strongly with various political outcomes, including group consciousness and partisan identity. Here, we examine the hypothesis that immigrants' PD vary across US localities, as threatened responses by native-born residents may increase perceived discrimination among neighboring immigrants. We also consider the alternative hypothesis that barriers to the expression and detection of discrimin…
On the Line: Latino Life in New Immigrant Destinations after 2005
Health care, immigrants, and minorities: Lessons from the affordable care act in the U.S
By the twenty-first century, the number of people migrating across international borders had grown substantially, spurred by ongoing economic, political, and environmental change in the Global Sout
Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity
Michael Jones-Correa, Helen B. Marrow, Dina G. Okamoto, Linda R. Tropp, Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 47-80
How Contact Experiences Shape Welcoming: Perspectives from U.S.-Born and Immigrant Groups
This research examines how intergroup contact experiences—including both their frequency and their qualities (friendly, discriminatory)—predict indicators of welcoming among U.S.-born and immigrant groups. Analyzing a new survey of U.S.-born groups (whites and blacks) and immigrant groups (Mexicans and Indians) from the Atlanta and Philadelphia metropolitan areas (total N = 2,006), we examine welcoming as a key dimension of social integration. Al…
Hope turned sour: Second-generation incorporation and mobility in U.S. new immigrant destinations
The number and size of "new immigrant destinations" (NIDs) in the United States grew quickly over the 1990s and 2000s, but Latino newcomers residing in them witnessed a profound negative turn in institutional and political reception after 2005. The present article takes stock of the causes and consequences of this shift, showing how intensifying enforcement and exclusionary policy-making at the federal and state levels after 2005 stoked anti-immi…
How Does Interracial Contact Among the U.S.-Born Shape White and Black Receptivity Toward Immigrants
A notable increase in immigration into the United States over the past half century, coupled with its recent geographic dispersion into new communities nationwide, has fueled contact among a wider set of individuals and groups than ever before. Past research has helped us understand Whites’ and Blacks’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, and even how contact between Blacks and Whites have shaped their attitudes toward one another. Nevert…
Modeling American Migration Aspirations: How Capital, Race, and National Identity Shape Americans’ Ideas about Living Abroad
Recent scholarship proposes a “two-step” approach for better understanding mechanisms underlying the migration process, suggesting we study migration aspirations separately from migration behavior and that the one does not always translate directly into the other. Research on aspirations, however, concentrates on the Global South, despite growing migration flows originating in the Global North. Here, we fill this gap, drawing on a nationally repr…
Welcoming, Trust, and Civic Engagement: Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan America
Prior studies have sought to understand how immigrants integrate into U.S. society, focusing on the ways in which local contexts and institutions limit immigrant incorporation. In this study, we consider how interactions among immigrants and U.S.-born within receiving communities contribute to the process of immigrant integration. We emphasize the extent to which immigrants perceive that they are welcome in their social environments and the downs…
Immigration (22 works) · Political science (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Geography (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (11 works)