The Social Contexts of Children of Immigrants in the US

美国移民子女的社会背景

• 批准号: 7258722
• 负责人: RICHARD D ALBA
• 金额: $ 21.17万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7258722
• 关键词: Age; American; Appendix; Area; Assimilations; Authorization documentation; Capital; Censuses; Cereals; Characteristics; Child; Child Rearing; Country; Data; Data Files; Disadvantaged; Discrimination; Economics; El Salvador; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Factor Analysis; Family; Generations; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Hispanics; Home environment; Household; Household and Family; Human; Huntington Disease; Immigrant; Individual; Lead; Light; Link; Literature; Living Wills; Mainstreaming; Measures; Methodology; Mexico; Modeling; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Native-Born; Neighborhoods; New York City; Outcome; Pan Genus; Parents; Pattern; Play; Population; Poverty; Probability; Purpose; Race; Records; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Sampling; Social Environment; Societies; Standards of Weights and Measures; Work; bean; child well being; comparative; human capital; improved; innovation; metropolitan; residence

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will examine the social contexts, defined at the neighborhood or household level, in which the children of immigrant parents are being reared in the U.S. and identify the family/household, parental and metropolitan characteristics associated with these contexts. Theoretically, it is guided by the conceptualization in the literature of three distinct patterns of incorporation: conventional assimilation, downward assimilation (or racialized incorporation), and the pluralist alternative. Since no one of these patterns is adequate for a full understanding of the incorporation of contemporary immigrant groups, our major goal is to identify more precisely the circumstances under which each pattern comes into play. To achieve project goals, both microdata and summary files from the 2000 U.S. Census will be analyzed, drawing upon the investigators' previous work on measures of child well-being and on locational-attainment models. Multi-level models of household and neighborhood outcomes will be estimated for 36 different immigrant groups, as well as for the children in the native families of all the major race groups and Hispanics. These models will include parental, household, and metropolitan characteristics as independent variables and will allow the examination of effects specific to kinds of metropolitan areas through interactions between metropolitan-level variables and lower-level ones. To analyze neighborhood-level outcomes, the investigators have received permission to use the facilities of the New York City Research Data Center to link PUMS and census-tract records, which will extend the Alba-Logan locational attainment models theoretically by using country-specific groups and methodologically by estimating neighborhood characteristics without the focal household included. We will analyze in particular the factors that lead the children of immigrants to grow up in socially advantaged or disadvantaged households and neighborhoods. Since limited economic resources and residence in poverty-stricken neighborhoods have implications for access to health care and exposure to health risks, the findings will provide improved understanding of important determinants of health outcomes and identify children in specific groups in particular metropolitan areas that are at risk for adverse health outcomes.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将检查在社区或家庭一级定义的社会环境，其中移民父母的子女在美国养育，并确定与这些环境相关的家族/家庭，父母和大都市的特征。从理论上讲，它以三种不同的融合模式的文献中的概念化为指导：常规同化，下降同化（或种族化的融合）和多元主义替代方案。由于这些模式中没有一个足以充分了解当代移民群体的结合，因此我们的主要目标是更精确地确定每种模式都发挥作用的情况。为了实现项目目标，将分析2000年美国人口普查的微型数据和摘要文件，借鉴调查人员以前关于儿童福祉和位置及时模型的措施的工作。将估计36个不同的移民群体以及所有主要种族组和西班牙裔的土著家庭中的家庭和邻里成果的多层次模型。这些模型将包括父母，家庭和大都市特征作为独立变量，并通过大都市级变量与低级变量之间的相互作用来检查特定于大都市地区的效果。为了分析邻里级别的成果，研究人员已获得使用纽约市研究数据中心的设施将PUMS和人口普查记录联系起来的许可，这将通过使用国家 /地区特定的群体和方法上的方法来扩展Alba-Logan的位置成就模型，并通过估算不包括重点家庭的邻里特征来扩展。我们将特别分析导致移民子女在社会优势或处境不利的家庭和社区中成长的因素。由于有限的经济资源和贫困社区的居住地对获得医疗保健和健康风险的影响有影响，因此这些发现将对对健康结果的重要决定因素进行改进的了解，并在特定群体中识别出对不良健康结果风险的特定群体中的儿童。