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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Native-born"”.
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Determinants of intermarriage in the United States among immigrants and the native born.
… in the United States among immigrants and the native born.
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Labor, Delivery, and Neonatal Outcomes For Immigrant Women Versus Native-Born Women In Taiwan
… socio-economically disadvantaged relative to native-born Taiwanese women and are married to lower socioeconomic status Taiwanese men. Some countries have experienced an epidemiological paradox of better immigrant birth outcomes relative to native-born populations despite apparent demographic …
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Discrimination, Psychological Well-Being, and Racial Importance in U.S. Native-Born and Caribbean Black Americans
… than women. Among men, Caribbean and native Black Americans had similar odds of reporting discrimination. Among women, Black American natives were more likely to report discrimination than Caribbean Blacks. Black identity importance was associated with increased likelihood of reported …
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Protective Factors Among Native Born and Immigrant Undergraduate and Graduate Students Enrolled in American Colleges: Predictive Validity of Acculturation, Family Involvement, Academic Persistence, Grit, and Sense of Belonging
<p>Achieving higher education goals and becoming acculturated to the social and economic values of the U.S. is critical for the success of immigrants. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, immigrants are estimated to account for 93% of the nation's workforce population growth over the …
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Perceived Discrimination and Depression as it Relates to Nativity Status of students from Immigrant Backgrounds
"Research has found that foreign born immigrants' have better mental and physical health, as well as higher levels of academic achievement, than native born individuals from immigrant families (Vega, et. al., 2004). There is some evidence that perceived discrimination could be a possible …
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The immigrant experience : networks, skills and the next generation
… characteristics between immigrants and the native born. Rather, it can arise due to institutional factors such as imperfect transferability of foreign human capital and credit constraints. The model's key implication is a negative relationship between parental human capital investments and …
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Change in Race and Ethnic Stratification: The Roles of Period, Cohort, Immigrant Generation, Socioeconomic Origins and Gender in Shaping Educational Attainment
… primary means of advancement for immigrants and native-born Americans throughout the 20th century. Despite the overall expansion of the educational system in the United States, not all immigrant groups and even native-born minority groups have achieved comparable levels of educational attainment …
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Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860
… in reflecting and shaping attitudes of the native-born towards Irish immigrants in antebellum New York City. Representations in mass culture, specifically in the popular press and on minstrel sheet music covers, serve as a window into understanding native-born discourses on Irish Americans. …
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An assessment of the representativeness of elected and appointed school board members in selected school districts in Virginia and Kentucky
… schooling, race, sex, place of work, age, and native born. The states selected for investigation were Kentucky, where all school boards are elected, and Virginia, where they are all appointed. Individual school districts within each state were classified according to both wealth and enrollment. …
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Refugee Economies: labour market integration, the gender gap in employment, and the impact of refugees in Jordan
… Syrian refugees on the labour market outcomes of native-born citizens in Jordan. I explore a posited causal relationship between the number of Syrian refugees and native-born citizens‘ labour market outcomes in Jordan through micro-level household labour surveys. This paper considers the migration …
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Iowa statewide voting patterns:1891-1912: naturalization does not create voting citizens
… in the state. Participation rates for foreign-born lagged the native-born of native-born parents and native-born of foreign-born parents.</p> <p>Regression analysis showed more of a breakdown between liberal and conservative than by ethnicity, religious affiliation, or generation in the …
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Soldaten Des Westens: An Analysis of the Wartime Experiences of Three German-American Regiments from the St. Louis-Bellville Region
… the 30<sup>th</sup> Illinois was considered a native-born American regiment although 21 percent of the men identified as foreign born. This distinct ethnic makeup dispelled nativism from within the regiment, and allowed Germans to escape outside nativist prejudice. A result of St. Louis area …
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Sample attrition and physical health of immigrants in the UK
… three papers on immigrants, i.e. foreign-born people, in the UK. The first paper is methodological, the other two papers focus on physical health. All papers use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) which started in 2009 and includes an Ethnic Minority Boost sample, …
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Adolescent Offending: How Growing Up Disadvantaged Matters Across Immigrant Generations
… this does not appear true among foreign-born populations. Indeed, the foreign-born are less involved in offending than the native-born suggesting disadvantage is not a predictor of their offending. Although disadvantage may not be a direct cause of the foreign-born’s adolescent offending, …
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Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies
… trajectories of children from immigrant and native-born families from their mid-20s to their mid-30s, with a focus on the role parental financial assets play in shaping these trajectories. Overall, the results show that how immigrants fare financially in the United States largely depends on …
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Immigration in rural Newfoundland: Individual and community change
… and focus groups with both immigrants and native-born Newfoundlanders in rural areas and then analyzed the resulting data with a rigorous thematic analysis. To accomplish this purpose, I recruited and interviewed eight immigrants and 10 native-born Newfoundlanders in rural areas of the …
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Minority Students in STEM Careers in the U.S. – the Role of AP Calculus
<p>“The number of native-born S&E [science and engineering] graduates entering the workforce is likely to decline unless the nation intervenes to improve success in educating S&E students from all demographic groups, especially those that have been underrepresented in S&E careers” (National Science …
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Immigration and Wages in the U.S. Labor Market
… large negative effects on the wages of competing native-born workers from influxes of immigrants in local markets, the bulk of papers in the literature find only small effects. In this dissertation, I examine the impact of immigration on wages in the U.S. labor market. In the first essay, I show …
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The economic performance of Asian immigrants entering the U.S. between 1975 and 1979
… between new Asian immigrants and the native-born. The earnings levels of refugees (Vietnamese) and economic immigrants (Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Korean) were compared to identify differences.
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Die deutschen Enwanderer in Sacramento: German immigrants in Sacramento, 1850--1859
… the mainstream Anglo-Americans, influencing the native-born to adopt some of the German traditions of celebration. This study rediscovers the active German community and its impact on Sacramento neglected in earlier histories of the city.
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