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ID14671
NAMEC Tran
GIVEN NAMESC
FAMILY NAMETran
SIGNATURETRAN C
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
ORCID0000-0002-2532-6811
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS394
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX11
  • Navigating the Covid-19 crisis: The financial resilience of Victorian local government

    Open Access•C Tran, Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran et al.•ARTICLE•Local Government Studies•2026

    Extensive research has examined municipal resilience to external shocks; however, quantitative assessments of financial resilience based on performance remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by analysing financial sustainability in Victorian local governments across three phases: pre-crisis (2017/18–2018/19), the COVID-19 pandemic (2019/20–2020/21), and recovery (2021/22–2022/23). Using bias-corrected Data Envelopment Analysis, we find tha…

  • Asian diaspora research in Ethnic and Racial Studies , 1978–2025

    Open Access•Tiffany J Huang, C Tran et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2026

    What research has been conducted on the Asian global diaspora, and who produces this knowledge? We compiled a corpus of 128 ERS articles published from 1978 to 2025, focusing on four Anglophone countries. We examined the diversity of data, methods, samples, research topics, theoretical frameworks, and authorship in the corpus, including variations over time and across countries. Compared with the increase in the Asian population since 1980, ERS s…

  • Mental and Physical Health Impacts of Anti-Asian Violence on Chinese Older Adults

    Open Access•Na Yin, Yu-Jhen Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Racial and Ethnic…•2026•References: 21

  • Asian American Diversity and Growth

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•2024•Cited by: 12•References: 43

    This article examines how the growth and diversification of Asian Americans have shaped their integration into the US mainstream. I first review recent trends in demographic diversification, socioeconomic differentiation, and geospatial dispersion among Asians. As a high-achieving minority group, Asians-on average-have surpassed Whites in education, income, and wealth. This narrative, however, is inaccurate and incomplete, rendering intra-Asian d…

  • New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York

    Open Access•Kasey Zapatka, C Tran•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 17

    This article examines the most recent trends on neighborhood racial integration in New York—the country’s largest metropolitan area in 2019 with a total population of 19.2 million. We ask how the suburbanization of both immigration and poverty have transformed suburbs over the last two decades. We highlight four findings. First, ethnoracial diversification has led to a significant decline in nonintegrated neighborhoods and a sharp rise in integra…

  • Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2023•Cited by: 3

  • Asian American Perspectives on Immigration Policy

    Open Access•C Tran, Natasha Warikoo•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 17

    Despite the rapid growth in both documented and undocumented Asian Americans, their attitudes toward immigration policy are not well understood. Drawing on data from the 2016 National Asian American Survey, this article examines both interracial and intra-Asian differences in views toward immigration. Relative to other racial groups, Asians are as likely to support legal migration, but less likely to support undocumented migration. We document si…

  • Intervening in Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Causal Effects of Factual Information on Attitudes toward Immigration

    Open Access•M Abascal, Tiffany J Huang et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 41

    If preferences on immigration policy respond to facts, widespread misinformation poses an obstacle to consensus. Does factual information about immigration indeed affect policy preferences? Are beliefs about immigration's societal impact the mechanism through which factual information affects support for increased immigration? To address these questions, we conducted an original survey experiment, in which we presented a nationally representative…

  • A New Beginning: Early Refugee Integration in the United States

    Open Access•C Tran, Francisco Lara-García•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 13

    Van C. Tran a, Francisco Lara-García b, A New Beginning: Early Refugee Integration in the United States, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (November 2020), pp. 117-149

  • The Borders around Us: Forced Migration and the Politics of Border Control

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•City and Community•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 1

  • Second-Generation Contextual Mobility: Neighborhood Attainment from Birth to Young Adulthood in the United States

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2020•Cited by: 9•References: 42

    This article examines trajectories of neighborhood mobility for the post-1965 second generation in the United States. It advances the concept of second-generation contextual mobility, defined as the change in neighborhood context over the life course among the second generation. This analysis uses unique geocoded longitudinal data over three decades to documents patterns of second-generation neighborhood attainment. Compared to US blacks, the sec…

  • The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States

    Open Access•C Tran, Fei Guo et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 41

    Whereas Australia has pursued a skills-based migration policy, the United States has privileged family-based migration. The key contrast between these migration regimes provides a rare test of how national immigration policy shapes immigrant selection and integration. Does a skills-based immigration regime result in a more select group of Asian immigrants in Australia compared to their counterparts in the United States? Are Asian immigrants more …

  • Gendered context of assimilation: The female second-generation advantage among Latinos

    Nicol M Valdez, C Tran•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 47

    Recent macro-level trends have created a gendered context of assimilation for second-generation Latinos, pointing to favourable condition among Latina women and potential vulnerability among Latino men. This article examines second-generation assimilation in young adulthood for the top ten Latino groups using gendered reference groups to benchmark their integration into American society. We find a significant female advantage on individual-level …

  • The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action

    Open Access•Jennifer Lee, C Tran•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 23

    Presumed competent, U.S. Asians evince exceptional educational outcomes but lack the cultural pedigree of elite whites that safeguard them from bias in the labor market. In spite of their nonwhite minority status, Asians also lack the legacy of disadvantage of blacks that make them eligible beneficiaries of affirmative action. Their labor market disadvantage coupled with their exclusion from affirmative action programs place Asians in a unique bi…

  • Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage: Response to comment by L.J Zigerell

    C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    In his critical comment, Zigerell focuses on three related, yet distinct, claims in our work. First, second-generation Asians are over-credentialed in education to achieve professional parity with whites. Second, second-generation Asians' educational advantage over whites disappears in the labour market where Asians are only as likely as whites to attain a managerial or professional occupation. Third, second-generation Asians might face a bamboo …

  • Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage

    C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 54•References: 24

    Asian Americans comprise 6.4% of the US population, but account for over 20% of the country's elite Ivy League students. While researchers have studied mechanisms that promote an "Asian second-generation advantage" in education, including immigrant hyper-selectivity, few have examined whether this advantage extends into the labour market. Focusing on the five largest Asian groups - Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Koreans - we revisit…

  • Coming of age in multi-ethnic America: Young Adults' Experiences With Diversity

    C Tran•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 23

    How do young adults experience diversity? How does the transition into adulthood shape these experiences? How do these experiences differ across contexts with varying levels of diversity? Comparing data gathered in four US communities, this article suggests three findings. First, children of immigrants are more comfortable with diversity because diversity is the norm in the communities in which they grew up. In contrast, their native counterparts…

  • Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race

    Open Access•C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2018•Cited by: 31•References: 16

    Van C. Tran, Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian, Jess Lee, Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 188-209

  • Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 11

    This article assesses second-generation socioeconomic mobility using the most recent data available for eighteen ethnic groups from the Current Population Survey. In contrast to prior predictions of second-generation declines in mobility, this analysis finds significant progress in the second generation, both when that generation is compared to first-generation proxy parents and when compared to native peers of the same age cohort descended from …

  • Second-Generation Decline or Advantage? Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

    Open Access•C Tran, Nicol M Valdez•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2017•Cited by: 28•References: 44

    This article addresses the debate on second-generation advantage and decline among Latinos by providing a post-recession snapshot based on geocoded data from the Current Population Survey (2008–2012). It reports three findings. First, second-generation Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are at a disadvantage, whereas other Latinos have achieved

  • Beyond the ballot box: Age-at-arrival, civic institutions and political participation among Latinos

    C Tran•ARTICLE•New Community•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 34

    Sociologists mostly treat age-at-arrival as a dichotomous variable whereas economists often approach it as a continuous variable. This article extends this debate by addressing a set of political behaviours that has mostly been the purview of political scientists. Analysing restricted, geocoded data from the National Survey of Latinos on Politics and Civic Participation, this article examines how age-at-arrival and civic institutions shape politi…

  • Ethnic culture and social mobility among second-generation Asian Americans

    C Tran•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2016

    This review engages with Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American Achievement Paradox to consider how ethnic culture matters for social mobility among the immigrant second generation. It describes the strengths and contributions of the book, connects it to broader debates on culture, poverty, and mobility, and draws on my own research on the second generation in New York City. It highlights three additional cultural mechanisms that underlie…

  • Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park

    C Tran•ARTICLE•Journal of American Ethnic History•2016

    Book Review| October 01 2016 Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. By Tarry Hum. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2014. viii + 286 pp. $89.50 (cloth); $32.95 (paper). Van C. Tran Van C. Tran Columbia University Van C. Tran is Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty organizer of the Race, Ethnicity and Migration Workshop at Columbia University. …

  • Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Political Science Quarterly•2015•Cited by: 11

  • See no Spanish: Language, local context, and attitudes toward immigration

    D J Hopkins, C Tran et al.•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2014•Cited by: 36•References: 40

    Certain explanations of Americans ’ immigration attitudes emphasize threats to national identity and culture. But we do not know the specific sources of cultural threat, and we do not know whether it operates locally. In case studies of new immigrant destinations, native-born residents commonly voice concerns about the prevalence of Spanish, suggesting that foreign languages might be one such source of threat. This paper uses survey experiments t…

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  • Segmented assimilation revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Mobility in Young Adulthood

    Mary C Waters, C Tran et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2010•Cited by: 115•References: 25

    This article examines the debate between key theories of immigrant assimilation by exploring the effect of acculturation types - dissonant, consonant, and selective - on socioeconomic outcomes in young adulthood. Drawing on survey data from the Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York, we show that while all three types occur, dissonant acculturation is the exception, not the norm, among second generation young adults. Our results als…

  • Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage

    C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 54•References: 24

    Asian Americans comprise 6.4% of the US population, but account for over 20% of the country's elite Ivy League students. While researchers have studied mechanisms that promote an "Asian second-generation advantage" in education, including immigrant hyper-selectivity, few have examined whether this advantage extends into the labour market. Focusing on the five largest Asian groups - Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Koreans - we revisit…

  • See no Spanish: Language, local context, and attitudes toward immigration

    D J Hopkins, C Tran et al.•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2014•Cited by: 36•References: 40

    Certain explanations of Americans ’ immigration attitudes emphasize threats to national identity and culture. But we do not know the specific sources of cultural threat, and we do not know whether it operates locally. In case studies of new immigrant destinations, native-born residents commonly voice concerns about the prevalence of Spanish, suggesting that foreign languages might be one such source of threat. This paper uses survey experiments t…

  • Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race

    Open Access•C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2018•Cited by: 31•References: 16

    Van C. Tran, Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian, Jess Lee, Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 188-209

  • Second-Generation Decline or Advantage? Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

    Open Access•C Tran, Nicol M Valdez•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2017•Cited by: 28•References: 44

    This article addresses the debate on second-generation advantage and decline among Latinos by providing a post-recession snapshot based on geocoded data from the Current Population Survey (2008–2012). It reports three findings. First, second-generation Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are at a disadvantage, whereas other Latinos have achieved

  • Participation in Context: Neighborhood Diversity and Organizational Involvement in Boston

    Open Access•C Tran, C Graif et al.•ARTICLE•City and Community•2013•Cited by: 19•References: 16

    We use unique data from the Boston Non–Profit Organizations Study, an innovative survey containing rich information on organizational participation across seven social domains in two Boston neighborhoods, to examine the relationship between ethnic diversity and participation in local organizations. In particular, we identify neighborhood–based social ties as a key mechanism mediating the initial negative association between diversity and particip…

  • Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 11

    This article assesses second-generation socioeconomic mobility using the most recent data available for eighteen ethnic groups from the Current Population Survey. In contrast to prior predictions of second-generation declines in mobility, this analysis finds significant progress in the second generation, both when that generation is compared to first-generation proxy parents and when compared to native peers of the same age cohort descended from …

  • A New Beginning: Early Refugee Integration in the United States

    Open Access•C Tran, Francisco Lara-García•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 13

    Van C. Tran a, Francisco Lara-García b, A New Beginning: Early Refugee Integration in the United States, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (November 2020), pp. 117-149

  • Asian American Diversity and Growth

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•2024•Cited by: 12•References: 43

    This article examines how the growth and diversification of Asian Americans have shaped their integration into the US mainstream. I first review recent trends in demographic diversification, socioeconomic differentiation, and geospatial dispersion among Asians. As a high-achieving minority group, Asians-on average-have surpassed Whites in education, income, and wealth. This narrative, however, is inaccurate and incomplete, rendering intra-Asian d…

  • Gendered context of assimilation: The female second-generation advantage among Latinos

    Nicol M Valdez, C Tran•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 47

    Recent macro-level trends have created a gendered context of assimilation for second-generation Latinos, pointing to favourable condition among Latina women and potential vulnerability among Latino men. This article examines second-generation assimilation in young adulthood for the top ten Latino groups using gendered reference groups to benchmark their integration into American society. We find a significant female advantage on individual-level …

  • Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Political Science Quarterly•2015•Cited by: 11

  • The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action

    Open Access•Jennifer Lee, C Tran•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 23

    Presumed competent, U.S. Asians evince exceptional educational outcomes but lack the cultural pedigree of elite whites that safeguard them from bias in the labor market. In spite of their nonwhite minority status, Asians also lack the legacy of disadvantage of blacks that make them eligible beneficiaries of affirmative action. Their labor market disadvantage coupled with their exclusion from affirmative action programs place Asians in a unique bi…

  • Second-Generation Contextual Mobility: Neighborhood Attainment from Birth to Young Adulthood in the United States

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2020•Cited by: 9•References: 42

    This article examines trajectories of neighborhood mobility for the post-1965 second generation in the United States. It advances the concept of second-generation contextual mobility, defined as the change in neighborhood context over the life course among the second generation. This analysis uses unique geocoded longitudinal data over three decades to documents patterns of second-generation neighborhood attainment. Compared to US blacks, the sec…

  • Intervening in Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Causal Effects of Factual Information on Attitudes toward Immigration

    Open Access•M Abascal, Tiffany J Huang et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 41

    If preferences on immigration policy respond to facts, widespread misinformation poses an obstacle to consensus. Does factual information about immigration indeed affect policy preferences? Are beliefs about immigration's societal impact the mechanism through which factual information affects support for increased immigration? To address these questions, we conducted an original survey experiment, in which we presented a nationally representative…

  • Coming of age in multi-ethnic America: Young Adults' Experiences With Diversity

    C Tran•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 23

    How do young adults experience diversity? How does the transition into adulthood shape these experiences? How do these experiences differ across contexts with varying levels of diversity? Comparing data gathered in four US communities, this article suggests three findings. First, children of immigrants are more comfortable with diversity because diversity is the norm in the communities in which they grew up. In contrast, their native counterparts…

  • Beyond the ballot box: Age-at-arrival, civic institutions and political participation among Latinos

    C Tran•ARTICLE•New Community•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 34

    Sociologists mostly treat age-at-arrival as a dichotomous variable whereas economists often approach it as a continuous variable. This article extends this debate by addressing a set of political behaviours that has mostly been the purview of political scientists. Analysing restricted, geocoded data from the National Survey of Latinos on Politics and Civic Participation, this article examines how age-at-arrival and civic institutions shape politi…

  • Asian American Perspectives on Immigration Policy

    Open Access•C Tran, Natasha Warikoo•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 17

    Despite the rapid growth in both documented and undocumented Asian Americans, their attitudes toward immigration policy are not well understood. Drawing on data from the 2016 National Asian American Survey, this article examines both interracial and intra-Asian differences in views toward immigration. Relative to other racial groups, Asians are as likely to support legal migration, but less likely to support undocumented migration. We document si…

  • Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2023•Cited by: 3

  • The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States

    Open Access•C Tran, Fei Guo et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 41

    Whereas Australia has pursued a skills-based migration policy, the United States has privileged family-based migration. The key contrast between these migration regimes provides a rare test of how national immigration policy shapes immigrant selection and integration. Does a skills-based immigration regime result in a more select group of Asian immigrants in Australia compared to their counterparts in the United States? Are Asian immigrants more …

  • New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York

    Open Access•Kasey Zapatka, C Tran•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 17

    This article examines the most recent trends on neighborhood racial integration in New York—the country’s largest metropolitan area in 2019 with a total population of 19.2 million. We ask how the suburbanization of both immigration and poverty have transformed suburbs over the last two decades. We highlight four findings. First, ethnoracial diversification has led to a significant decline in nonintegrated neighborhoods and a sharp rise in integra…

  • The Borders around Us: Forced Migration and the Politics of Border Control

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•City and Community•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 1

  • Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage: Response to comment by L.J Zigerell

    C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    In his critical comment, Zigerell focuses on three related, yet distinct, claims in our work. First, second-generation Asians are over-credentialed in education to achieve professional parity with whites. Second, second-generation Asians' educational advantage over whites disappears in the labour market where Asians are only as likely as whites to attain a managerial or professional occupation. Third, second-generation Asians might face a bamboo …

  • English Gain vs. Spanish Loss? Language Assimilation among Second-Generation Latinos in Young Adulthood

    C Tran, V C Tran•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2010

    Analyzing three waves of data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey, this article explores the process of language assimilation among second-generation Latinos. Although previous studies have focused on the shift from mother tongue to English across immigrant generations, few have examined change in language profi-ciency over time within the second generation. Results from a series of growth-curve models suggest three findings. Firs…

  • Segmented assimilation revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Mobility in Young Adulthood

    Mary C Waters, C Tran et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2010•Cited by: 115•References: 25

    This article examines the debate between key theories of immigrant assimilation by exploring the effect of acculturation types - dissonant, consonant, and selective - on socioeconomic outcomes in young adulthood. Drawing on survey data from the Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York, we show that while all three types occur, dissonant acculturation is the exception, not the norm, among second generation young adults. Our results als…

  • Selective induction of apoptosis through activation of caspase-8 in human leukemia cells (Jurkat) by dandelion root extract

    Open Access•Pamela Ovadje, S Chatterjee et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnopharmacology•2011

  • Replenished Ethnicity

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2012•References: 1

  • Participation in Context: Neighborhood Diversity and Organizational Involvement in Boston

    Open Access•C Tran, C Graif et al.•ARTICLE•City and Community•2013•Cited by: 19•References: 16

    We use unique data from the Boston Non–Profit Organizations Study, an innovative survey containing rich information on organizational participation across seven social domains in two Boston neighborhoods, to examine the relationship between ethnic diversity and participation in local organizations. In particular, we identify neighborhood–based social ties as a key mechanism mediating the initial negative association between diversity and particip…

  • See no Spanish: Language, local context, and attitudes toward immigration

    D J Hopkins, C Tran et al.•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2014•Cited by: 36•References: 40

    Certain explanations of Americans ’ immigration attitudes emphasize threats to national identity and culture. But we do not know the specific sources of cultural threat, and we do not know whether it operates locally. In case studies of new immigrant destinations, native-born residents commonly voice concerns about the prevalence of Spanish, suggesting that foreign languages might be one such source of threat. This paper uses survey experiments t…

  • Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•Political Science Quarterly•2015•Cited by: 11

  • Ethnic culture and social mobility among second-generation Asian Americans

    C Tran•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2016

    This review engages with Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American Achievement Paradox to consider how ethnic culture matters for social mobility among the immigrant second generation. It describes the strengths and contributions of the book, connects it to broader debates on culture, poverty, and mobility, and draws on my own research on the second generation in New York City. It highlights three additional cultural mechanisms that underlie…

  • Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park

    C Tran•ARTICLE•Journal of American Ethnic History•2016

    Book Review| October 01 2016 Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. By Tarry Hum. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2014. viii + 286 pp. $89.50 (cloth); $32.95 (paper). Van C. Tran Van C. Tran Columbia University Van C. Tran is Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty organizer of the Race, Ethnicity and Migration Workshop at Columbia University. …

  • Second-Generation Decline or Advantage? Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

    Open Access•C Tran, Nicol M Valdez•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2017•Cited by: 28•References: 44

    This article addresses the debate on second-generation advantage and decline among Latinos by providing a post-recession snapshot based on geocoded data from the Current Population Survey (2008–2012). It reports three findings. First, second-generation Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are at a disadvantage, whereas other Latinos have achieved

  • Beyond the ballot box: Age-at-arrival, civic institutions and political participation among Latinos

    C Tran•ARTICLE•New Community•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 34

    Sociologists mostly treat age-at-arrival as a dichotomous variable whereas economists often approach it as a continuous variable. This article extends this debate by addressing a set of political behaviours that has mostly been the purview of political scientists. Analysing restricted, geocoded data from the National Survey of Latinos on Politics and Civic Participation, this article examines how age-at-arrival and civic institutions shape politi…

  • Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race

    Open Access•C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2018•Cited by: 31•References: 16

    Van C. Tran, Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian, Jess Lee, Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 188-209

  • Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 11

    This article assesses second-generation socioeconomic mobility using the most recent data available for eighteen ethnic groups from the Current Population Survey. In contrast to prior predictions of second-generation declines in mobility, this analysis finds significant progress in the second generation, both when that generation is compared to first-generation proxy parents and when compared to native peers of the same age cohort descended from …

  • The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action

    Open Access•Jennifer Lee, C Tran•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 23

    Presumed competent, U.S. Asians evince exceptional educational outcomes but lack the cultural pedigree of elite whites that safeguard them from bias in the labor market. In spite of their nonwhite minority status, Asians also lack the legacy of disadvantage of blacks that make them eligible beneficiaries of affirmative action. Their labor market disadvantage coupled with their exclusion from affirmative action programs place Asians in a unique bi…

  • Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage: Response to comment by L.J Zigerell

    C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    In his critical comment, Zigerell focuses on three related, yet distinct, claims in our work. First, second-generation Asians are over-credentialed in education to achieve professional parity with whites. Second, second-generation Asians' educational advantage over whites disappears in the labour market where Asians are only as likely as whites to attain a managerial or professional occupation. Third, second-generation Asians might face a bamboo …

  • Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage

    C Tran, Jennifer Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 54•References: 24

    Asian Americans comprise 6.4% of the US population, but account for over 20% of the country's elite Ivy League students. While researchers have studied mechanisms that promote an "Asian second-generation advantage" in education, including immigrant hyper-selectivity, few have examined whether this advantage extends into the labour market. Focusing on the five largest Asian groups - Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Koreans - we revisit…

  • Coming of age in multi-ethnic America: Young Adults' Experiences With Diversity

    C Tran•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 23

    How do young adults experience diversity? How does the transition into adulthood shape these experiences? How do these experiences differ across contexts with varying levels of diversity? Comparing data gathered in four US communities, this article suggests three findings. First, children of immigrants are more comfortable with diversity because diversity is the norm in the communities in which they grew up. In contrast, their native counterparts…

  • A New Beginning: Early Refugee Integration in the United States

    Open Access•C Tran, Francisco Lara-García•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 13

    Van C. Tran a, Francisco Lara-García b, A New Beginning: Early Refugee Integration in the United States, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (November 2020), pp. 117-149

  • The Borders around Us: Forced Migration and the Politics of Border Control

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•City and Community•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 1

  • Second-Generation Contextual Mobility: Neighborhood Attainment from Birth to Young Adulthood in the United States

    Open Access•C Tran•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2020•Cited by: 9•References: 42

    This article examines trajectories of neighborhood mobility for the post-1965 second generation in the United States. It advances the concept of second-generation contextual mobility, defined as the change in neighborhood context over the life course among the second generation. This analysis uses unique geocoded longitudinal data over three decades to documents patterns of second-generation neighborhood attainment. Compared to US blacks, the sec…

  • The Integration Paradox: Asian Immigrants in Australia and the United States

    Open Access•C Tran, Fei Guo et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 41

    Whereas Australia has pursued a skills-based migration policy, the United States has privileged family-based migration. The key contrast between these migration regimes provides a rare test of how national immigration policy shapes immigrant selection and integration. Does a skills-based immigration regime result in a more select group of Asian immigrants in Australia compared to their counterparts in the United States? Are Asian immigrants more …

  • Gendered context of assimilation: The female second-generation advantage among Latinos

    Nicol M Valdez, C Tran•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 47

    Recent macro-level trends have created a gendered context of assimilation for second-generation Latinos, pointing to favourable condition among Latina women and potential vulnerability among Latino men. This article examines second-generation assimilation in young adulthood for the top ten Latino groups using gendered reference groups to benchmark their integration into American society. We find a significant female advantage on individual-level …

  • Asian American Perspectives on Immigration Policy

    Open Access•C Tran, Natasha Warikoo•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 17

    Despite the rapid growth in both documented and undocumented Asian Americans, their attitudes toward immigration policy are not well understood. Drawing on data from the 2016 National Asian American Survey, this article examines both interracial and intra-Asian differences in views toward immigration. Relative to other racial groups, Asians are as likely to support legal migration, but less likely to support undocumented migration. We document si…

  • Intervening in Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Causal Effects of Factual Information on Attitudes toward Immigration

    Open Access•M Abascal, Tiffany J Huang et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 41

    If preferences on immigration policy respond to facts, widespread misinformation poses an obstacle to consensus. Does factual information about immigration indeed affect policy preferences? Are beliefs about immigration's societal impact the mechanism through which factual information affects support for increased immigration? To address these questions, we conducted an original survey experiment, in which we presented a nationally representative…

  • New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York

    Open Access•Kasey Zapatka, C Tran•ARTICLE•RSF The Russell Sage Foundation…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 17

    This article examines the most recent trends on neighborhood racial integration in New York—the country’s largest metropolitan area in 2019 with a total population of 19.2 million. We ask how the suburbanization of both immigration and poverty have transformed suburbs over the last two decades. We highlight four findings. First, ethnoracial diversification has led to a significant decline in nonintegrated neighborhoods and a sharp rise in integra…

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