TY - JOUR
T1 - Kinship Networks among Immigrants
AU - Menjivar, Cecilia
N1 - Funding Information:
1 This larger study was conducted among five groups of immigrants in Northern California— Vietnamese, Mexicans, Salvadoreans, Chinese, and Iu Mien—in order to investigate the survival strategies of immigrant households. It was financed by the California Policy Seminar, Michael P. Smith was the Principal Investigator and Bernadette Tarallo was the Project Director, both from the University of California at Davis.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Through a comparative framework that includes state policies of reception, the local labor market, the organization of the receiving community, and the migration history of the group in question, this paper analyses the effects of the receiving context on kinship-based networks among recent immigrants to California. Based on 80 intensive interviews among Salvadoreans, Vietnamese and Mexicans immigrants, this article seeks to explain the sustainability of kinship networks as well as their breakdown, which occurs at the place of destination. The article highlights the fruitfulness of comparing network outcomes across immigrant groups that face different contexts of reception.
AB - Through a comparative framework that includes state policies of reception, the local labor market, the organization of the receiving community, and the migration history of the group in question, this paper analyses the effects of the receiving context on kinship-based networks among recent immigrants to California. Based on 80 intensive interviews among Salvadoreans, Vietnamese and Mexicans immigrants, this article seeks to explain the sustainability of kinship networks as well as their breakdown, which occurs at the place of destination. The article highlights the fruitfulness of comparing network outcomes across immigrant groups that face different contexts of reception.
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U2 - 10.1163/002071595X00074
DO - 10.1163/002071595X00074
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029529349
VL - 36
SP - 219
EP - 232
JO - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
JF - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
SN - 0020-7152
IS - 3-4
ER -