Immigration and Work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agius Vallejo, Jody.

Series:

Research in the Sociology of Work Series

Research in the Sociology of Work Series ; v.27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015.

Summary:

This volume investigates how larger structural inequalities in sending and receiving nations, immigrant entry policies, group characteristics, and micro level processes, such as discrimination and access to ethnic networks, shapes labor market outcomes, workplace experiences, and patterns of integration among immigrants and their descendants.

Contents:

Front Cover

Immigration and Work

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Acknowledgments

References

Part I: Legal Status and Low-Wage Labor Migrants

Central American Immigrant Workers: How Legal Status Shapes the Labor Market Experience

Background and Context of Exit

Legal Context of Reception

Work and Labor Force Incorporation

Remittances by Central American Immigrant Workers

Discussion/Conclusion

Notes

Between Support and Shame: The Impacts of Workplace Violations for Immigrant Families

Literature

The Feminization of Migration and Everyday Deportability

Worker Rights and Complicated Bureaucracies

Methodology

Findings

Balancing Family Life and Navigating Power at Work

Family Solidarity in Fighting for Justice

Family Obligations and Weighing a Claim

Long-Term Impacts of Workplace Violations on Families Here and There

Conclusion

Part II: Labor Unions and Immigrant Workers

Labor Union Activity and the Civic Participation of Latino Immigrant Workers

Immigrant Workers, Labor Unions, and Civic Engagement

Unequal Involvement and Civic Development among Members

Civic Engagement in Schools

Research Focus

United Service Workers West and Justice for Janitors

Data and Methods

Results

Patterns of Union Participation

Union Involvement and Critical Engagement in Children's Schools

Finding a Voice: Empowerment through Union Participation

Union Repertoires and School-Based Civic Engagement

Summary and Implications for the Political Incorporation of Immigrant Workers

Embedded Solidarity: International Migrant Labor Advocacy in South Korea

Embedded Solidarity: International Migrant Labor Advocacy in Korea.

Global Labor, Civic Binationality, and Advocacy Networks

Global Movement of Labor: Cambodians in Korea

Global Movement of Capital: Korean Garment Manufacturers in Cambodia

Duality of Globalization: Embedding Migrant Advocacy in Korea

NGO Activism and the Industrial Technical Trainee System: 1994-2003

EPS, MigrantActs, and International Solidarity: 2004-2014

Part III: The Macrostructural Context of Reception and Labor Market Integration

Intersectional Differences in Segmented Assimilation: Skill and Gender in the Context of Reception

Theorizing Segmented Assimilation

Hypotheses

Data and Sample

Variable Description

Socioeconomic Status

Background Characteristics

Hourly Earnings

Joblessness

Self-Employment Participation

Discussion

Acknowledgment

Economic Progress, Stagnation, or Decline? Occupational Mobility of Non-EU Immigrants in Europe

International Migration and Occupational Mobility: Theoretical Reflections

Quantitative Data Collection

Qualitative Data Collection

Mapping Occupational Mobility

Explanatory Analyses: Variables Included in the Regression Models

Immigrants' Labor Market Position in Transition: Main Findings

Labor Market Position before and after Migration

Labor Market Position since Migration

Explaining Occupational Mobility

Transition from Origin to Host Country

Transitions from First to Current Job in the Host Country

Concluding Remarks

Part IV: New Directions in Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Transnational Entrepreneurship and Immigrant Integration: New Chinese Immigrants in Singapore and the United States

Theoretical Background

Causes and Effects of Ethnic Entrepreneurship.

Transnational Entrepreneurship

Filling the Gaps

Methodological Consideration

Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Diasporic Development

Early Patterns of International Migration from China: Trader versus Labor Migration

Diasporic Development in Singapore

Diasporic Development in the United States

Changing Immigration Dynamics and Divergent Engagements with the Homeland

New Chinese Immigrants to Singapore

New Chinese Immigrants to the United States

Causes for Divergent Patterns of Transnational Entrepreneurship

Transnational Entrepreneurship, Identity Formation, and Immigrant Integration

Singapore: Integration through Re-Sinicization

The United States: Integration Through Ethnicization

Adaptation and Return among Israeli Enclave and Infotech Entrepreneurs

Israeli Emigrants as Ethnic and Transnational Entrepreneurs

Methods

Israeli Emigrants

Gender and Family Adaptation Patterns among Israeli Ethnic Entrepreneurs

Communal Patterns of Israeli Emigrants Involved in Information Technology and Related Occupations

Communal Patterns among Infotech Emigrants

Potential for Return

Reactions to Return

International Commuting

Conclusions

Franchising Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Immigrant Business Owners and an Alternative Economic Model

Pushed into Lower End Businesses

Pulled into Higher End Businesses

What Is a Franchise?

Research Design

Entering Franchises

Ethnic Capital and Financial Investment

Ethnic Capital and Knowledge Circulation

Ethnic Capital and Labor

Part V: New Gendered Occupational Niches and Immigrant/Native Workplace Boundaries

A New Gendered Occupational Niche: Latina Pathways into the Teaching Profession.

Entering the Teaching Profession

Description of Research Sample

Pathways into Teaching

Familial Educational Encouragement and Filial Obligations to Family Members

Financial Feasibility

Growing Demand

Family Social Networks: "It was So Easy for me to Walk into Teaching"

Discussion and Conclusion

Bridging Boundaries of Difference: Intergroup Contact between Immigrants and Natives in the Context of Work

A Background on Social Boundaries

How Social Boundaries Are Bridged in Workplace Settings

Investing in Tribeca: Residents and Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Time

Outside the Work Context

Language and Culture

Why Are Boundaries Only Bridged?

The Benefits of Bridging

About the Authors.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Vallejo, Jody Agius Immigration and Work

ISBN:

9781784416317

OCLC:

907950907