Foreign-Born Concentration and Acculturation to Volunteering among Immigrant Youth

Autor/in	Tong, Yuying
Titel	Foreign-Born Concentration and Acculturation to Volunteering among Immigrant Youth
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 89 (2010) 1, S.117-143 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Acculturation; Statistical Data; Immigrants; Longitudinal Studies; Volunteers; Regression (Statistics); Socioeconomic Status; Behavior Standards; Adolescents; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Akkulturation; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Freiwilliger; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	Using children of immigrants sample from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study investigates how immigrant youth acculturating to the American social norm of volunteering and how the acculturation is modified by living in immigrant neighborhoods. Multilevel logistic regression produces distinct patterns for children living in high-SES and low-SES neighborhoods. In high-SES neighborhoods, being among foreign-born residents serves as a buffer against acculturating to the social norm for youth, and this buffer has an enduring impact when they enter into their early adulthood. Conversely, in low-SES neighborhoods, acculturating to this social norm is irrelevant to the proportion of foreign-born residents in their neighborhoods. However, the experience of growing up in such neighborhoods has the potential to enhance the acculturation to volunteering when the adolescents enter into young adulthood. The findings shed new light on segmented assimilation theory: that is, being among the foreign-born not only could prevent immigrant youth from downward assimilation, but also could restrict acculturation to positive social norms. (Contains 5 tables, 2 figures and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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