Final Immigrant Integration and Exclusion

Question 1

Classic assimilation theory

Answer 1

• immigrants alone need to adapt to “dominant culture by shedding their pre-exisitng cultural identities
• a one way process that host societies do not learn or adapt from

Question 1

Americanization programs

Answer 1

• intended to facilitate immigrant’s adoption of U.S ways of life (language, customs, values)

*programs focused on civics knowledge, english proficiency labor productivity, patriotism, national loyalty, social norms (etiquette, dress and recreation)

• various views from immigrants, helpful vs. attempt to erase culture, resisted

Question 2

Integration, assimilation, separation, marginalization

Answer 2

Integration: accepts old and new culture

Assimilation: rejects old culture and accepts new

Separation: accepts old and rejects new

Marginalization: reject old and new

Question 3

Traditional assimilation metrics

Answer 3

• naturalization rates, English language competency, educational attainment, economic status, and rates of
  marriage outside one’s ethnicity or nationality
• Classic assimilation theory
• Key finding roughly takes until the third generation

Question 4

Racial and ethnic disadvantage models

Answer 4

• “race and ethnicity play an outsized role - compared to other factors” in determining “outsider” v. “insider”

Question 5

Segmented assimilation

Answer 5

• the economic
  resources and educational status of immigrants can produce contrasting
  trajectories
• stronger economic means and educational background = assimilation into a professional class
• lack both = economic underclass and more structural barriers, downward mobility
• “This theory may oversimplify integration into two divergent paths, but it is helpful in
  capturing individual and structural factors than can shape immigrant experiences”

Question 6

Integration as a two way process

Answer 6

Which migrants and the host society learn from and adapt to each other, the experiences, cultures, and knowledge that immigrants bring may be preserved and valued, rather than submerged or melted away

Question 7

Intergenerational convergence

Question 8

Education, health family reunion, permanent residence, civic and community connections, economic mobility

Answer 8

Key integration metrics

Question 9

The Migration Integration Policy Index

Answer 9

Uses key integration metrics to assess integration policy

Question 10

Absolute, relative, and competitive success

Answer 10

Absolute: reaching a threshold of wellbeing higher than where one started but not dazzling

Relative: Becoming better off than some comparison point (neighbors, people in old country, childhood self) anything that one can measure oneself against

Competitive: achieving victory over someone else, my success implies your failure, known opponents or abstract (other applicants for a job)