Tomás R Jiménez
Biographic Data
| ID | 82976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomás R Jiménez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomás R |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiménez |
| SIGNATURE | JIMÉNEZ T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5702-1086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 650 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Brokering refugee integration: Promises and pitfalls of refugee co-sponsorship in the United States
A Step and a Push in Understanding People Without an Immigrant Background: An Analysis of Crul et al. (2024)
This commentary offers an analysis of the article “The Integration Into Diversity Paradox: Positive Attitudes Towards Diversity While Self‐Segregating in Practice” by Maurice Crul, Lisa‐Marie Kraus, and Frans Lelie, published in this thematic issue of Social Inclusion (Crul et al., 2024). I argue that the article is a step and a potential push forward in research on people without an immigrant background. The step forward is their findings that p…
Going Local: Public Attitudes toward Municipal Offices of Immigration Affairs
Local governments have been increasingly active in immigration policy by cooperating with federal immigration enforcement or creating local offices of immigrant affairs (OIA) charged with integrating immigrants. How do these policies shape perceptions of locales following these policy routes? Using a set of pre-registered survey experiments, we find that compared to local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, creating an OIA produces …
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being
States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion
Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols
Mainstream Flavor: Ethnic Cuisine and Assimilation in the United States
Assimilation theories posit that cultural change is part and parcel of the assimilation process. That change can register in the symbols and practices that individuals invoke as part of an ethnic experience. But cultural change also includes the degree to which the mainstream takes up those symbols and practices as part of its composite culture. We develop a way to examine whether cuisine, an important component of ethnic culture, is part of the …
The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations? The Other Side of Assimilation shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jiménez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-d…
A Tale of Two States: How State Immigration Climate Affects Belonging to State and Country among Latinos
This study assesses the impact of different immigrant policy climates on how Latinos feel about themselves, their place in their state and country, and how they think they are viewed by others. Using survey data from Arizona and New Mexico, we find that Latinos in Arizona exhibit lower levels of belonging than Latinos in New Mexico, but their alienation is confined to the state level. We also find that the U.S. born are most sensitive to the stat…
The New Third Generation: Post‐1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of Assimilation
Now is the time for social scientists to focus an analytical lens on the new third generation to see what their experiences reveal about post‐1965 assimilation. This paper is a first step. We compare the household characteristics of post‐1965, second‐generation Latino and Asian children in 1980 to a “new third generation” in 2010. Today's new third generation is growing up in households headed by parents who have higher socioeconomic attainment; …
The New Third Generation: Post‐1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of Assimilation
Not Just a National Issue: Effect of State‐Level Reception of Immigrants and Population Changes on Intergroup Attitudes of Whites, Latinos, and Asians in the United States
National discourse about immigration in the United States has become increasingly unwelcoming. In two studies, we examine whether regional‐level (state) information about welcoming (vs. unwelcoming) immigrant policies in the context of either stable or increasing rate of immigration can influence intergroup relations in receiving communities. Among Whites (Study 1), welcoming policy proposals elicited more positive attitudes toward immigrants gen…
Tracking a Changing America across the Generations after Immigration
The post-1960s immigration boom and contemporary demographics have elevated generation-since-immigration as a category that is central to analysts and, more generally, to Americans as they make sense of their place in the world around them. This makes the collection of data on immigrant generations imperative if surveys are to keep up with how the nation's people think about themselves and each other. A clear portrait of contemporary assimilation…
Pushing the conversation about assimilation forward
I wish to thank four eminent scholars - Maurice Crul, Miri Song, Philip Kasinitz and Natasha Warikoo - for their thoughtful remarks on my book, The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Ch
Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health
Life under threat of deportation What is the effect on a child of having parents who are at risk of deportation as unauthorized immigrants? Hainmueller et al. developed a quasi-experimental protocol to address this complicated question. They selected mothers who had birthdates either just before or just after the cutoff for the United States' Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Children whose mothers were protected from deporta…
Fade to Black: Multiple Symbolic Boundaries in “Black/Brown” Contact
Increasingly, African Americans find themselves living side-by-side with immigrant newcomers from Latin America, the largest source of today's immigrant population. Research on "Black/Brown" relations tends to a priori define groupness in ethnoracial terms and gloss over potential nuance in inter-group relations. Taking an inductive approach to understanding how African Americans interpret the boundaries that result from immigration-driven change…
Bringing culture back in: The Class Origins and Ethnoracial Destinations of Culture and Achievement
Notably absent from assimilation scholarship are analyses that seriously engage, rather than dismiss, cultural explanations for differences in group outcomes. That dismissal has left the assimilation scholars ill-equipped to thoroughly respond to popular and quasi-academic explanations that rely on an all-encompassing view of culture to explain immigrant group differences in socioeconomic outcomes. Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American A…
How Ethnoraciality Matters: Looking inside Ethnoracial “Groups”
The color line is still a central problem in the United States, as Du Bois declared more than a century ago. But economic, demographic, and social trends have subdivided it in ways that Du Bois could not have foreseen, creating tremendous intra-ethnoracial group diversity. A challenge for twenty-first-century scholarship is to make sense of the implications of growing intra-group diversity for the boundaries and meaning of group identity. Meeting…
Intergenerational Mobility of the Mexican-Origin Population in California and Texas Relative to a Changing Regional Mainstream
We combine two approaches to gauge the achievements of the Mexican-origin second generation: one the intergenerational progress between immigrant parents and children, the other the gap between the second generation and non-Latino whites. We measure advancement of the Mexican-origin second generation using a suite of census-derived outcomes applied to immigrant parents in 1980 and grown children in 2005, as observed in California and Texas. Patte…
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…
Les Américains d’origine mexicaine et la dynamique de la diversité interne
L’immigration en provenance du Mexique est la plus longue de l’histoire des États-Unis et la plus importante numériquement. Ce flux continu d’immigrés mexicains entretient la culture d’origine et permet aux Mexicains-Américains de toutes générations de revendiquer leur identité ethnique. Mais l’ancienneté de cette migration induit des différences culturelles entre les différentes générations de migrants. Malgré une grande diversité de statut soci…
When White Is Just Alright: How Immigrants Redefine Achievement and Reconfigure the Ethnoracial Hierarchy
Research on immigration, educational achievement, and ethnoraciality has followed the lead of racialization and assimilation theories by focusing empirical attention on the immigrant-origin population (immigrants and their children), while overlooking the effect of an immigrant presence on the third-plus generation (U.S.-born individuals of U.S.-born parents), especially its white members. We depart from this approach by placing third-plus-genera…
Affiliative ethnic identity: A More Elastic Link Between Ethnic Ancestry and Culture
This paper explains the development of affiliative ethnic identity: an individual identity rooted in knowledge, regular consumption and deployment of an ethnic culture that is unconnected to an individual's ethnic ancestry until that individual regards herself, and may be regarded by others, as an affiliate of a particular ethnic group. While ethnic culture remains identifiably linked to a particular ethnic ancestry, ideological, institutional an…
Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced invest…
Contexts for bilingualism among US-born Latinos
This paper focuses on the contextual determinants of bilingualism among Latino adults who were born in the US or are members of the '1.5 generation' of Latinos who immigrated to the US when they were 10 or younger. We model the broader contexts reflecting contemporary developments that influence change in both the real and the perceived value of bilingualism. Using US census data for metropolitan areas in 1990 and 2000, we find that the replenish…
When White Is Just Alright: How Immigrants Redefine Achievement and Reconfigure the Ethnoracial Hierarchy
Research on immigration, educational achievement, and ethnoraciality has followed the lead of racialization and assimilation theories by focusing empirical attention on the immigrant-origin population (immigrants and their children), while overlooking the effect of an immigrant presence on the third-plus generation (U.S.-born individuals of U.S.-born parents), especially its white members. We depart from this approach by placing third-plus-genera…
Mexican Immigrant Replenishment and the Continuing Significance of Ethnicity and Race
The literature on assimilation and ethnic identity formation largely assumes that the durability of ethnic boundaries is a function of the assimilation measures that sociologists commonly employ. But this literature fails to account adequately for the role of immigration patterns in explaining the durability and nature of ethnic boundaries. Using 123 in-depth interviews with later-generation Mexican Americans, this article shows that Mexican immi…
Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced invest…
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…
Affiliative ethnic identity: A More Elastic Link Between Ethnic Ancestry and Culture
This paper explains the development of affiliative ethnic identity: an individual identity rooted in knowledge, regular consumption and deployment of an ethnic culture that is unconnected to an individual's ethnic ancestry until that individual regards herself, and may be regarded by others, as an affiliate of a particular ethnic group. While ethnic culture remains identifiably linked to a particular ethnic ancestry, ideological, institutional an…
Mexican Assimilation: A Temporal and Spatial Reorientation
One of the principal theoretical and policy questions in the sociology of international migration is the extent to which post-1965 immigrants are either assimilating in the United States or remain stuck in an ethnic "underclass." This paper aims to recast conventional approaches to assimilation through a temporal and spatial reorientation, with special attention to the Mexican-origin case. Attending to the effects of the replenishment of the Mexi…
Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols
Contexts for bilingualism among US-born Latinos
This paper focuses on the contextual determinants of bilingualism among Latino adults who were born in the US or are members of the '1.5 generation' of Latinos who immigrated to the US when they were 10 or younger. We model the broader contexts reflecting contemporary developments that influence change in both the real and the perceived value of bilingualism. Using US census data for metropolitan areas in 1990 and 2000, we find that the replenish…
How Ethnoraciality Matters: Looking inside Ethnoracial “Groups”
The color line is still a central problem in the United States, as Du Bois declared more than a century ago. But economic, demographic, and social trends have subdivided it in ways that Du Bois could not have foreseen, creating tremendous intra-ethnoracial group diversity. A challenge for twenty-first-century scholarship is to make sense of the implications of growing intra-group diversity for the boundaries and meaning of group identity. Meeting…
The New Third Generation: Post‐1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of Assimilation
Now is the time for social scientists to focus an analytical lens on the new third generation to see what their experiences reveal about post‐1965 assimilation. This paper is a first step. We compare the household characteristics of post‐1965, second‐generation Latino and Asian children in 1980 to a “new third generation” in 2010. Today's new third generation is growing up in households headed by parents who have higher socioeconomic attainment; …
A Tale of Two States: How State Immigration Climate Affects Belonging to State and Country among Latinos
This study assesses the impact of different immigrant policy climates on how Latinos feel about themselves, their place in their state and country, and how they think they are viewed by others. Using survey data from Arizona and New Mexico, we find that Latinos in Arizona exhibit lower levels of belonging than Latinos in New Mexico, but their alienation is confined to the state level. We also find that the U.S. born are most sensitive to the stat…
Not Just a National Issue: Effect of State‐Level Reception of Immigrants and Population Changes on Intergroup Attitudes of Whites, Latinos, and Asians in the United States
National discourse about immigration in the United States has become increasingly unwelcoming. In two studies, we examine whether regional‐level (state) information about welcoming (vs. unwelcoming) immigrant policies in the context of either stable or increasing rate of immigration can influence intergroup relations in receiving communities. Among Whites (Study 1), welcoming policy proposals elicited more positive attitudes toward immigrants gen…
Intergenerational Mobility of the Mexican-Origin Population in California and Texas Relative to a Changing Regional Mainstream
We combine two approaches to gauge the achievements of the Mexican-origin second generation: one the intergenerational progress between immigrant parents and children, the other the gap between the second generation and non-Latino whites. We measure advancement of the Mexican-origin second generation using a suite of census-derived outcomes applied to immigrant parents in 1980 and grown children in 2005, as observed in California and Texas. Patte…
Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Mexican Immigration: The Mexican‐American Perspective
Objective. Survey research posits that Mexican Americans' perceptions of the costs and benefits of immigration drive their opinions about immigration, but this research does not provide a clear picture of how Mexican Americans calculate these costs and benefits. This article aims to understand the processes that explain how Mexican Americans calculate the costs and benefits of Mexican immigration. Methods. The article employs 123 in‐depth intervi…
Fade to Black: Multiple Symbolic Boundaries in “Black/Brown” Contact
Increasingly, African Americans find themselves living side-by-side with immigrant newcomers from Latin America, the largest source of today's immigrant population. Research on "Black/Brown" relations tends to a priori define groupness in ethnoracial terms and gloss over potential nuance in inter-group relations. Taking an inductive approach to understanding how African Americans interpret the boundaries that result from immigration-driven change…
The New Third Generation: Post‐1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of Assimilation
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being
Bringing culture back in: The Class Origins and Ethnoracial Destinations of Culture and Achievement
Notably absent from assimilation scholarship are analyses that seriously engage, rather than dismiss, cultural explanations for differences in group outcomes. That dismissal has left the assimilation scholars ill-equipped to thoroughly respond to popular and quasi-academic explanations that rely on an all-encompassing view of culture to explain immigrant group differences in socioeconomic outcomes. Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American A…
Going Local: Public Attitudes toward Municipal Offices of Immigration Affairs
Local governments have been increasingly active in immigration policy by cooperating with federal immigration enforcement or creating local offices of immigrant affairs (OIA) charged with integrating immigrants. How do these policies shape perceptions of locales following these policy routes? Using a set of pre-registered survey experiments, we find that compared to local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, creating an OIA produces …
Tracking a Changing America across the Generations after Immigration
The post-1960s immigration boom and contemporary demographics have elevated generation-since-immigration as a category that is central to analysts and, more generally, to Americans as they make sense of their place in the world around them. This makes the collection of data on immigrant generations imperative if surveys are to keep up with how the nation's people think about themselves and each other. A clear portrait of contemporary assimilation…
Pushing the conversation about assimilation forward
I wish to thank four eminent scholars - Maurice Crul, Miri Song, Philip Kasinitz and Natasha Warikoo - for their thoughtful remarks on my book, The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Ch
Brokering refugee integration: Promises and pitfalls of refugee co-sponsorship in the United States
Mainstream Flavor: Ethnic Cuisine and Assimilation in the United States
Assimilation theories posit that cultural change is part and parcel of the assimilation process. That change can register in the symbols and practices that individuals invoke as part of an ethnic experience. But cultural change also includes the degree to which the mainstream takes up those symbols and practices as part of its composite culture. We develop a way to examine whether cuisine, an important component of ethnic culture, is part of the …
A Step and a Push in Understanding People Without an Immigrant Background: An Analysis of Crul et al. (2024)
This commentary offers an analysis of the article “The Integration Into Diversity Paradox: Positive Attitudes Towards Diversity While Self‐Segregating in Practice” by Maurice Crul, Lisa‐Marie Kraus, and Frans Lelie, published in this thematic issue of Social Inclusion (Crul et al., 2024). I argue that the article is a step and a potential push forward in research on people without an immigrant background. The step forward is their findings that p…
Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Mexican Immigration: The Mexican‐American Perspective
Objective. Survey research posits that Mexican Americans' perceptions of the costs and benefits of immigration drive their opinions about immigration, but this research does not provide a clear picture of how Mexican Americans calculate these costs and benefits. This article aims to understand the processes that explain how Mexican Americans calculate the costs and benefits of Mexican immigration. Methods. The article employs 123 in‐depth intervi…
Mexican Assimilation: A Temporal and Spatial Reorientation
One of the principal theoretical and policy questions in the sociology of international migration is the extent to which post-1965 immigrants are either assimilating in the United States or remain stuck in an ethnic "underclass." This paper aims to recast conventional approaches to assimilation through a temporal and spatial reorientation, with special attention to the Mexican-origin case. Attending to the effects of the replenishment of the Mexi…
Mexican Immigrant Replenishment and the Continuing Significance of Ethnicity and Race
The literature on assimilation and ethnic identity formation largely assumes that the durability of ethnic boundaries is a function of the assimilation measures that sociologists commonly employ. But this literature fails to account adequately for the role of immigration patterns in explaining the durability and nature of ethnic boundaries. Using 123 in-depth interviews with later-generation Mexican Americans, this article shows that Mexican immi…
Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced invest…
Contexts for bilingualism among US-born Latinos
This paper focuses on the contextual determinants of bilingualism among Latino adults who were born in the US or are members of the '1.5 generation' of Latinos who immigrated to the US when they were 10 or younger. We model the broader contexts reflecting contemporary developments that influence change in both the real and the perceived value of bilingualism. Using US census data for metropolitan areas in 1990 and 2000, we find that the replenish…
Affiliative ethnic identity: A More Elastic Link Between Ethnic Ancestry and Culture
This paper explains the development of affiliative ethnic identity: an individual identity rooted in knowledge, regular consumption and deployment of an ethnic culture that is unconnected to an individual's ethnic ancestry until that individual regards herself, and may be regarded by others, as an affiliate of a particular ethnic group. While ethnic culture remains identifiably linked to a particular ethnic ancestry, ideological, institutional an…
Les Américains d’origine mexicaine et la dynamique de la diversité interne
L’immigration en provenance du Mexique est la plus longue de l’histoire des États-Unis et la plus importante numériquement. Ce flux continu d’immigrés mexicains entretient la culture d’origine et permet aux Mexicains-Américains de toutes générations de revendiquer leur identité ethnique. Mais l’ancienneté de cette migration induit des différences culturelles entre les différentes générations de migrants. Malgré une grande diversité de statut soci…
When White Is Just Alright: How Immigrants Redefine Achievement and Reconfigure the Ethnoracial Hierarchy
Research on immigration, educational achievement, and ethnoraciality has followed the lead of racialization and assimilation theories by focusing empirical attention on the immigrant-origin population (immigrants and their children), while overlooking the effect of an immigrant presence on the third-plus generation (U.S.-born individuals of U.S.-born parents), especially its white members. We depart from this approach by placing third-plus-genera…
Intergenerational Mobility of the Mexican-Origin Population in California and Texas Relative to a Changing Regional Mainstream
We combine two approaches to gauge the achievements of the Mexican-origin second generation: one the intergenerational progress between immigrant parents and children, the other the gap between the second generation and non-Latino whites. We measure advancement of the Mexican-origin second generation using a suite of census-derived outcomes applied to immigrant parents in 1980 and grown children in 2005, as observed in California and Texas. Patte…
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…
How Ethnoraciality Matters: Looking inside Ethnoracial “Groups”
The color line is still a central problem in the United States, as Du Bois declared more than a century ago. But economic, demographic, and social trends have subdivided it in ways that Du Bois could not have foreseen, creating tremendous intra-ethnoracial group diversity. A challenge for twenty-first-century scholarship is to make sense of the implications of growing intra-group diversity for the boundaries and meaning of group identity. Meeting…
Fade to Black: Multiple Symbolic Boundaries in “Black/Brown” Contact
Increasingly, African Americans find themselves living side-by-side with immigrant newcomers from Latin America, the largest source of today's immigrant population. Research on "Black/Brown" relations tends to a priori define groupness in ethnoracial terms and gloss over potential nuance in inter-group relations. Taking an inductive approach to understanding how African Americans interpret the boundaries that result from immigration-driven change…
Bringing culture back in: The Class Origins and Ethnoracial Destinations of Culture and Achievement
Notably absent from assimilation scholarship are analyses that seriously engage, rather than dismiss, cultural explanations for differences in group outcomes. That dismissal has left the assimilation scholars ill-equipped to thoroughly respond to popular and quasi-academic explanations that rely on an all-encompassing view of culture to explain immigrant group differences in socioeconomic outcomes. Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American A…
Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health
Life under threat of deportation What is the effect on a child of having parents who are at risk of deportation as unauthorized immigrants? Hainmueller et al. developed a quasi-experimental protocol to address this complicated question. They selected mothers who had birthdates either just before or just after the cutoff for the United States' Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Children whose mothers were protected from deporta…
The New Third Generation: Post‐1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of Assimilation
Now is the time for social scientists to focus an analytical lens on the new third generation to see what their experiences reveal about post‐1965 assimilation. This paper is a first step. We compare the household characteristics of post‐1965, second‐generation Latino and Asian children in 1980 to a “new third generation” in 2010. Today's new third generation is growing up in households headed by parents who have higher socioeconomic attainment; …
The New Third Generation: Post‐1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of Assimilation
Not Just a National Issue: Effect of State‐Level Reception of Immigrants and Population Changes on Intergroup Attitudes of Whites, Latinos, and Asians in the United States
National discourse about immigration in the United States has become increasingly unwelcoming. In two studies, we examine whether regional‐level (state) information about welcoming (vs. unwelcoming) immigrant policies in the context of either stable or increasing rate of immigration can influence intergroup relations in receiving communities. Among Whites (Study 1), welcoming policy proposals elicited more positive attitudes toward immigrants gen…
Tracking a Changing America across the Generations after Immigration
The post-1960s immigration boom and contemporary demographics have elevated generation-since-immigration as a category that is central to analysts and, more generally, to Americans as they make sense of their place in the world around them. This makes the collection of data on immigrant generations imperative if surveys are to keep up with how the nation's people think about themselves and each other. A clear portrait of contemporary assimilation…
Pushing the conversation about assimilation forward
I wish to thank four eminent scholars - Maurice Crul, Miri Song, Philip Kasinitz and Natasha Warikoo - for their thoughtful remarks on my book, The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Ch
The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations? The Other Side of Assimilation shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jiménez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-d…
A Tale of Two States: How State Immigration Climate Affects Belonging to State and Country among Latinos
This study assesses the impact of different immigrant policy climates on how Latinos feel about themselves, their place in their state and country, and how they think they are viewed by others. Using survey data from Arizona and New Mexico, we find that Latinos in Arizona exhibit lower levels of belonging than Latinos in New Mexico, but their alienation is confined to the state level. We also find that the U.S. born are most sensitive to the stat…
Mainstream Flavor: Ethnic Cuisine and Assimilation in the United States
Assimilation theories posit that cultural change is part and parcel of the assimilation process. That change can register in the symbols and practices that individuals invoke as part of an ethnic experience. But cultural change also includes the degree to which the mainstream takes up those symbols and practices as part of its composite culture. We develop a way to examine whether cuisine, an important component of ethnic culture, is part of the …
States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion
Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (20 works) · Immigration (18 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (15 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works)