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Social determinants of immigrant selection : the United States, Canada, and Australia / Yukio Kawano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kawano, Yukio, 1968-
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--United States--Statistics.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Canada--Statistics.
- Immigrants--Australia--Statistics.
- Vocational qualifications--United States--Statistics.
- Vocational qualifications.
- Vocational qualifications--Canada--Statistics.
- Vocational qualifications--Australia--Statistics.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Mathematical models.
- United States.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration--Mathematical models.
- Canada.
- Australia--Emigration and immigration--Mathematical models.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Self-selection theory predicts that skilled workers move to countries with more unequal labor markets, and unskilled workers to countries with more equal ones. However, this thesis alone fails to consider the structural process of uprooting in the sending countries and the process of group adaptation in the host countries. Kawano reveals that imbalanced development in peripheral countries induces emigration of skilled workers, and that economic and intellectual resources in the receiving coethnic groups positively affect adaptation, while social networks and English fluency negatively affect it. Racial discrimination in the U.S. is also a factor: Asian and Latino immigrants in Canada and Australia earn at least as much as native whites, but much less in the U.S.
- Contents:
- Economic and social selection
- Immigration history and policy
- Modeling immigration processes
- Determinants of immigrant skills
- Immigrant selection in a new context.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-229-1
- OCLC:
- 191935929
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