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Migration, Assimilation and Social Welfare

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International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution

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This chapter reviews the theoretical perspectives used to understand immigrant assimilation, the challenges to studying assimilation and current research on diverse immigrant origins and across diverse locations of settlement. The authors review recent research on the integration and involvement of immigrants and their descendants into several key structural domains: education, labor markets and residential patterns. This review also focuses on variations in these outcomes among immigrants and their descendants in diverse contexts and policy regimes with cross-national comparisons from several immigrant receiving countries. Understanding how immigrants fare and the extent to which their children and grandchildren succeed requires an examination of immigrant characteristics, the migration process and the changes that occur in the context of reception.

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    The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) at the national level and Proposition 1987 in California pushed Mexican immigrants away from settlement in California. During the same time, California was experiencing a deep economic recession while other areas in the country were experiencing growth in low-skill jobs (Gouveia and Saenz 2000; Johnson et al. 1999).

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Glick, J., Park, J. (2016). Migration, Assimilation and Social Welfare. In: White, M. (eds) International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution. International Handbooks of Population, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7282-2_23

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