SOC 019 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cultural Assimilation, Social Capital, Transnationalism
30 Apr 2019
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Illegality is not an uninterrupted process; rather youth face the transition to illegality at a critical moment in their life course. Few move on to college- but their education does not help them move forward without legal status; their future is not different from that of early exiters. Increase of immigration and intermarriage- challenge to the rigid binary system. Today"s immigrant origins: 14% europe, 33% asia, 41% central and south america. 1 in 4 americans are immigrants and their offspring biracial/multiracial individuals. A fast-growing segment of the us population. Projection is that 1 in 5 people will be multiracial by 2050. People"s willingness to report multiracial background on the census. Three-generation hypothesis (hansen"s law): ethnic revival among the third generation. Intergenerational mobility upward/downward mobility across generations; whether children do better/worse than parents. Transnationalism sustained ties of persons and networks across national borders. Retention of more intense, interconnected links among today"s immigrants than previously.
