Susan K Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 292327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan K Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 286 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Immigration Policy
Immigration policy specifies the laws, regulations, and practices that allow persons to move permanently to other countries and petition for citizenship or to enter and stay for delimited lengths of time without the right to apply for citizenship. Such policies include not only occupation‐ and family‐based migration but also the admissions of refugees and the acceptance of asylum‐seekers. In its most comprehensive form, immigration policy involve…
The fertility integration of Mexican-Americans across generations: Confronting the Problem of the 'Third' Generation
The manner in which ‘third generation’ Mexican-Americans are identified, predicated on self-reported ethnic identity rather than grandparental nativity, is imprecise and potentially confounded with later generations. This study examines the degree to which this imprecision accounts for the stagnation found in many past studies of integration, including fertility integration. We use data from the study Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in…
Parental Legal Status and the Political Engagement of Second-Generation Mexican Americans
Susan K. Brown, Alejandra Jazmin Sanchez, Parental Legal Status and the Political Engagement of Second-Generation Mexican Americans, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 4, Undocumented Immigrants and Their Experience with Illegality (July 2017), pp. 136-147
Gendered Consequences: Multigenerational Schooling Effects of Irca
Prior research has examined the incorporation outcomes among unauthorized migrants after implementation of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). However, few studies have evaluated how legalization opportunities produce gendered outcomes among the second-generation children of unauthorized immigrants. We examine the association of legalization opportunities provided through IRCA with the years of schooling attained by the sons and d…
Mexican Migration to the United States: Perspectives From Both Sides of the Border
Why is Mexican emigration different from the previous ones? This is the question posed by Professor Huntington in his polemic article. According to the author the real question is not this, but the way the developed world (including our closest environment, the European Union) should react to its own modified demographic conditions, taking into consideration the present global conditions. Special attention has been dedicated to the analysis of th…
Encyclopedia of Migration
Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants
Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean, Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 3, Immigrants Inside Politics/Outside Citizenship (June 2016), pp. 22-41
Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
"For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain unauthorized. In Parents Without Papers, immigration scholars Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier document the extent to which the outsider status of these newcomers inflicts multiple hardships on their children and grandchildren. An innovative analysis of the…
The dimensions and degree of second-generation incorporation in US and European cities: A comparative study of inclusion and exclusion
This research compares cities between and within the United States and Europe with respect to their dimensionality and degree of immigrant incorporation. Based on theoretical perspectives about immigrant incorporation, structural differentiation and national incorporation regimes, we hypothesize that more inclusionary (MI) cities will show more dimensions of incorporation and more favorable incorporation outcomes than less inclusionary (LI) place…
The Link Between the Transnational Behaviour and Integration of the Second Generation in European and American Cities: Does the context of reception matter
This article investigates the transnational behaviour of the children of immigrants – the second generation – in 11 European and two U.S. cities. We find evidence that transnational practices such as visits to the home country, remittances and use of ethnic media persist only among a minority of the second generation. At a personal level, these second-generation transmigrants are less socio-culturally integrated but more economically integrated i…
Luxury, Necessity, and Anachronistic Workers: Does the United States Need Unskilled Immigrant Labor
This article assesses the labor market implications of less-skilled migration to the United States. It emphasizes how recent social, demographic, and economic trends have reduced the availability of less-skilled native workers, while new low-education immigrant workers compete with other less-skilled immigrants for available low-skilled jobs. Declines in native fertility to substantially below replacement levels, together with native educational …
The Educational Legacy of Unauthorized Migration: Comparisons across U.S.-Immigrant Groups in how Parents’ Status Affects Their Offspring
This research compares several national-origin groups in terms of how parents’ entry, legalization and naturalization (i.e., membership) statuses relate to their children's educational attainment. In the case of Asian groups, the members of which predominantly come to the United States as permanent legal migrants, we hypothesize (1) that father's and mother's statuses will be relatively homogenous and few in number and (2) that these will exert m…
Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States
Coviewing Preschool Television in the Us: Eliciting parent–child interaction via onscreen prompts
Past studies have shown that naturalistic parent–child coviewing of television provides a context for interactions that promote comprehension and more general language development. To determine whether onscreen text can facilitate such interactions, 58 parent–child dyads (with children aged 3 to 5 years) were observed while viewing a preschool video in which the narrative was accompanied by either: (1) an onscreen "Mommy bar" of subtitles includi…
Delayed Spatial Assimilation: Multigenerational Incorporation of the Mexican–Origin Population in Los Angeles
This article examines the nature and degree of spatial integration across generations among young adults of Mexican origin in metropolitan Los Angeles. Drawing on a new, unique data set that covers more than four generations of persons of Mexican origin, the research tests the extent to which residential settlement patterns follow two potential trajectories: one specified by a model of traditional spatial assimilation, which views economic and et…
Immigration Policy
Immigration policy specifies the laws and practices that allow persons to move permanently to other countries and petition for citizenship or to enter and stay for delimited lengths of time without the right to apply for citizenship. In developed countries, such policies include not only voluntary work and occupation‐based and family‐based migration but also the admission of refugees and the acceptance of asylum seekers. In its most comprehensive…
Mexican Immigrant Political and Economic Incorporation
As the United States begins the 21st century, it remains the world's leading immigration country. Almost 35 million legal and unauthorized migrants lived in the United States in 2000 (the latest year for which migration data are available on a global basis), a figure 2.7 times larger than the number in any other country (United Nations 2002). Although other nations have higher proportions of foreign-born residents (e.g., nearly 25 percent in Aust…
For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 generally restricted immigrants' eligibility for welfare to those who had naturalized. By increasing the salience of naturalization, the law provides a unique opportunity to examine how social and economic contexts of reception influence immigrants' pursuit of citizenship. This paper summarizes instrumental-legal (IL) and social-contextual (SC) theoretical perspectives on the foundations of citizenship and develops …
Structural Assimilation Revisited: Mexican-Origin Nativity and Cross-Ethnic Primary Ties
Classical assimilation theory postulates that over time, members of immigrant groups will develop more primary ties with native members of the host society. However, lack of data has led most research to rely on the study of either spatial mobility or other secondary variables as proxies of primary ties. Using data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, this research examines primary relations, comparing the number of cross-ethnic strong …
The End of Affirmative Action in Washington State and Its Impact on the Transition from High School to College
Changes in affirmative action policies in some states create possibilities for 'natural experiments' to observe the effect of public policy on racial and ethnic inequality in American society. This study measured the impact of Initiative 200, a ballot measure that eliminated affirmative action in Washington State, on the transition from high school to college. As of 1999, the year after I-200 passed, the proportion of minority high school seniors…
When Ties Don't Bind
The Educational Legacy of Unauthorized Migration: Comparisons across U.S.-Immigrant Groups in how Parents’ Status Affects Their Offspring
This research compares several national-origin groups in terms of how parents’ entry, legalization and naturalization (i.e., membership) statuses relate to their children's educational attainment. In the case of Asian groups, the members of which predominantly come to the United States as permanent legal migrants, we hypothesize (1) that father's and mother's statuses will be relatively homogenous and few in number and (2) that these will exert m…
Delayed Spatial Assimilation: Multigenerational Incorporation of the Mexican–Origin Population in Los Angeles
This article examines the nature and degree of spatial integration across generations among young adults of Mexican origin in metropolitan Los Angeles. Drawing on a new, unique data set that covers more than four generations of persons of Mexican origin, the research tests the extent to which residential settlement patterns follow two potential trajectories: one specified by a model of traditional spatial assimilation, which views economic and et…
For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 generally restricted immigrants' eligibility for welfare to those who had naturalized. By increasing the salience of naturalization, the law provides a unique opportunity to examine how social and economic contexts of reception influence immigrants' pursuit of citizenship. This paper summarizes instrumental-legal (IL) and social-contextual (SC) theoretical perspectives on the foundations of citizenship and develops …
The dimensions and degree of second-generation incorporation in US and European cities: A comparative study of inclusion and exclusion
This research compares cities between and within the United States and Europe with respect to their dimensionality and degree of immigrant incorporation. Based on theoretical perspectives about immigrant incorporation, structural differentiation and national incorporation regimes, we hypothesize that more inclusionary (MI) cities will show more dimensions of incorporation and more favorable incorporation outcomes than less inclusionary (LI) place…
The End of Affirmative Action in Washington State and Its Impact on the Transition from High School to College
Changes in affirmative action policies in some states create possibilities for 'natural experiments' to observe the effect of public policy on racial and ethnic inequality in American society. This study measured the impact of Initiative 200, a ballot measure that eliminated affirmative action in Washington State, on the transition from high school to college. As of 1999, the year after I-200 passed, the proportion of minority high school seniors…
Mexican Immigrant Political and Economic Incorporation
As the United States begins the 21st century, it remains the world's leading immigration country. Almost 35 million legal and unauthorized migrants lived in the United States in 2000 (the latest year for which migration data are available on a global basis), a figure 2.7 times larger than the number in any other country (United Nations 2002). Although other nations have higher proportions of foreign-born residents (e.g., nearly 25 percent in Aust…
Structural Assimilation Revisited: Mexican-Origin Nativity and Cross-Ethnic Primary Ties
Classical assimilation theory postulates that over time, members of immigrant groups will develop more primary ties with native members of the host society. However, lack of data has led most research to rely on the study of either spatial mobility or other secondary variables as proxies of primary ties. Using data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, this research examines primary relations, comparing the number of cross-ethnic strong …
Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants
Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean, Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 3, Immigrants Inside Politics/Outside Citizenship (June 2016), pp. 22-41
The Link Between the Transnational Behaviour and Integration of the Second Generation in European and American Cities: Does the context of reception matter
This article investigates the transnational behaviour of the children of immigrants – the second generation – in 11 European and two U.S. cities. We find evidence that transnational practices such as visits to the home country, remittances and use of ethnic media persist only among a minority of the second generation. At a personal level, these second-generation transmigrants are less socio-culturally integrated but more economically integrated i…
Luxury, Necessity, and Anachronistic Workers: Does the United States Need Unskilled Immigrant Labor
This article assesses the labor market implications of less-skilled migration to the United States. It emphasizes how recent social, demographic, and economic trends have reduced the availability of less-skilled native workers, while new low-education immigrant workers compete with other less-skilled immigrants for available low-skilled jobs. Declines in native fertility to substantially below replacement levels, together with native educational …
Parental Legal Status and the Political Engagement of Second-Generation Mexican Americans
Susan K. Brown, Alejandra Jazmin Sanchez, Parental Legal Status and the Political Engagement of Second-Generation Mexican Americans, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 4, Undocumented Immigrants and Their Experience with Illegality (July 2017), pp. 136-147
The fertility integration of Mexican-Americans across generations: Confronting the Problem of the 'Third' Generation
The manner in which ‘third generation’ Mexican-Americans are identified, predicated on self-reported ethnic identity rather than grandparental nativity, is imprecise and potentially confounded with later generations. This study examines the degree to which this imprecision accounts for the stagnation found in many past studies of integration, including fertility integration. We use data from the study Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in…
Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States
Gendered Consequences: Multigenerational Schooling Effects of Irca
Prior research has examined the incorporation outcomes among unauthorized migrants after implementation of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). However, few studies have evaluated how legalization opportunities produce gendered outcomes among the second-generation children of unauthorized immigrants. We examine the association of legalization opportunities provided through IRCA with the years of schooling attained by the sons and d…
When Ties Don't Bind
Mexican Immigrant Political and Economic Incorporation
As the United States begins the 21st century, it remains the world's leading immigration country. Almost 35 million legal and unauthorized migrants lived in the United States in 2000 (the latest year for which migration data are available on a global basis), a figure 2.7 times larger than the number in any other country (United Nations 2002). Although other nations have higher proportions of foreign-born residents (e.g., nearly 25 percent in Aust…
For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 generally restricted immigrants' eligibility for welfare to those who had naturalized. By increasing the salience of naturalization, the law provides a unique opportunity to examine how social and economic contexts of reception influence immigrants' pursuit of citizenship. This paper summarizes instrumental-legal (IL) and social-contextual (SC) theoretical perspectives on the foundations of citizenship and develops …
Structural Assimilation Revisited: Mexican-Origin Nativity and Cross-Ethnic Primary Ties
Classical assimilation theory postulates that over time, members of immigrant groups will develop more primary ties with native members of the host society. However, lack of data has led most research to rely on the study of either spatial mobility or other secondary variables as proxies of primary ties. Using data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, this research examines primary relations, comparing the number of cross-ethnic strong …
The End of Affirmative Action in Washington State and Its Impact on the Transition from High School to College
Changes in affirmative action policies in some states create possibilities for 'natural experiments' to observe the effect of public policy on racial and ethnic inequality in American society. This study measured the impact of Initiative 200, a ballot measure that eliminated affirmative action in Washington State, on the transition from high school to college. As of 1999, the year after I-200 passed, the proportion of minority high school seniors…
Delayed Spatial Assimilation: Multigenerational Incorporation of the Mexican–Origin Population in Los Angeles
This article examines the nature and degree of spatial integration across generations among young adults of Mexican origin in metropolitan Los Angeles. Drawing on a new, unique data set that covers more than four generations of persons of Mexican origin, the research tests the extent to which residential settlement patterns follow two potential trajectories: one specified by a model of traditional spatial assimilation, which views economic and et…
Immigration Policy
Immigration policy specifies the laws and practices that allow persons to move permanently to other countries and petition for citizenship or to enter and stay for delimited lengths of time without the right to apply for citizenship. In developed countries, such policies include not only voluntary work and occupation‐based and family‐based migration but also the admission of refugees and the acceptance of asylum seekers. In its most comprehensive…
Coviewing Preschool Television in the Us: Eliciting parent–child interaction via onscreen prompts
Past studies have shown that naturalistic parent–child coviewing of television provides a context for interactions that promote comprehension and more general language development. To determine whether onscreen text can facilitate such interactions, 58 parent–child dyads (with children aged 3 to 5 years) were observed while viewing a preschool video in which the narrative was accompanied by either: (1) an onscreen "Mommy bar" of subtitles includi…
Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States
The Educational Legacy of Unauthorized Migration: Comparisons across U.S.-Immigrant Groups in how Parents’ Status Affects Their Offspring
This research compares several national-origin groups in terms of how parents’ entry, legalization and naturalization (i.e., membership) statuses relate to their children's educational attainment. In the case of Asian groups, the members of which predominantly come to the United States as permanent legal migrants, we hypothesize (1) that father's and mother's statuses will be relatively homogenous and few in number and (2) that these will exert m…
The dimensions and degree of second-generation incorporation in US and European cities: A comparative study of inclusion and exclusion
This research compares cities between and within the United States and Europe with respect to their dimensionality and degree of immigrant incorporation. Based on theoretical perspectives about immigrant incorporation, structural differentiation and national incorporation regimes, we hypothesize that more inclusionary (MI) cities will show more dimensions of incorporation and more favorable incorporation outcomes than less inclusionary (LI) place…
The Link Between the Transnational Behaviour and Integration of the Second Generation in European and American Cities: Does the context of reception matter
This article investigates the transnational behaviour of the children of immigrants – the second generation – in 11 European and two U.S. cities. We find evidence that transnational practices such as visits to the home country, remittances and use of ethnic media persist only among a minority of the second generation. At a personal level, these second-generation transmigrants are less socio-culturally integrated but more economically integrated i…
Luxury, Necessity, and Anachronistic Workers: Does the United States Need Unskilled Immigrant Labor
This article assesses the labor market implications of less-skilled migration to the United States. It emphasizes how recent social, demographic, and economic trends have reduced the availability of less-skilled native workers, while new low-education immigrant workers compete with other less-skilled immigrants for available low-skilled jobs. Declines in native fertility to substantially below replacement levels, together with native educational …
Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
"For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain unauthorized. In Parents Without Papers, immigration scholars Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier document the extent to which the outsider status of these newcomers inflicts multiple hardships on their children and grandchildren. An innovative analysis of the…
Mexican Migration to the United States: Perspectives From Both Sides of the Border
Why is Mexican emigration different from the previous ones? This is the question posed by Professor Huntington in his polemic article. According to the author the real question is not this, but the way the developed world (including our closest environment, the European Union) should react to its own modified demographic conditions, taking into consideration the present global conditions. Special attention has been dedicated to the analysis of th…
Encyclopedia of Migration
Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants
Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean, Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 3, Immigrants Inside Politics/Outside Citizenship (June 2016), pp. 22-41
Parental Legal Status and the Political Engagement of Second-Generation Mexican Americans
Susan K. Brown, Alejandra Jazmin Sanchez, Parental Legal Status and the Political Engagement of Second-Generation Mexican Americans, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 4, Undocumented Immigrants and Their Experience with Illegality (July 2017), pp. 136-147
Gendered Consequences: Multigenerational Schooling Effects of Irca
Prior research has examined the incorporation outcomes among unauthorized migrants after implementation of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). However, few studies have evaluated how legalization opportunities produce gendered outcomes among the second-generation children of unauthorized immigrants. We examine the association of legalization opportunities provided through IRCA with the years of schooling attained by the sons and d…
The fertility integration of Mexican-Americans across generations: Confronting the Problem of the 'Third' Generation
The manner in which ‘third generation’ Mexican-Americans are identified, predicated on self-reported ethnic identity rather than grandparental nativity, is imprecise and potentially confounded with later generations. This study examines the degree to which this imprecision accounts for the stagnation found in many past studies of integration, including fertility integration. We use data from the study Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in…
Immigration Policy
Immigration policy specifies the laws, regulations, and practices that allow persons to move permanently to other countries and petition for citizenship or to enter and stay for delimited lengths of time without the right to apply for citizenship. Such policies include not only occupation‐ and family‐based migration but also the admissions of refugees and the acceptance of asylum‐seekers. In its most comprehensive form, immigration policy involve…
Political science (17 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (16 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works)