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New Immigrant Destinations in Global Context

New Immigrant Destinations in Global Context. Jamie Winders Department of Geography Syracuse University. Ten States with the Largest Latino Populations, 2000. Ten States with the Fastest Growth in Latino Population, 1990-2000.

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New Immigrant Destinations in Global Context

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  1. New Immigrant Destinations in Global Context Jamie Winders Department of Geography Syracuse University

  2. Ten States with the Largest Latino Populations, 2000 Ten States with the Fastest Growth in Latino Population, 1990-2000 From Andrew Wainer. 2004. The New Latino South and the Challenge to Public Education: Strategies for Educators and Policymakers in Emerging Immigrant Communities. Tomas Rivera Policy Institute.

  3. 2010: 48% of Dalton’s 33,000 residents were Hispanic. 2010: 26% of Mayfield’s 10,349 residents were Hispanic.

  4. 2001 novel set in Latino community in Nashville, TN Where should the study of new immigrant destinations go?

  5. New immigrant destinations in global context

  6. New Immigrant Destinations (NIDs) in Global Context • (1) How NIDs have been defined within and beyond the U.S. • (2) NIDs in various geographic contexts • (3) What attention to NIDs in a global context gets us and requires

  7. What constitutes NID? Singer’s 2004 typology Former gateways Continuous gateways Post-World War II gateways Emerging gateways Re-emerging gateways Pre-emerging gateways • (1) No clear consensus on definition Massey and Capoferro 2008: NID states if 100% or greater Hispanic population growth, 1990 to 2000 Shihadeh and Barranco 2013: NID counties if less than 10% Hispanic in 1990 Lichter and Johnson 2009: “high-growth area” if rapid Hispanic population growth in 1990s and less than 10% Hispanic in 1990

  8. Cape Verde’s Chinese population grew five-fold, mid-1990s to 2003 (Haugen and Carlin 2005) • In mid-western town, Hispanic population grew by 5,000%, 1990 to 2006 (McConnell and Miraftab2008) • In rural Arkansas, local schools grew from 3% Hispanic in 1992 to 50% by 2001 (Erwin 2003) NID characteristics • (1) Speed of settlement, not size of population • (2) Lack of institutional infrastructure • (3) Lack of “established ethnic resources” for immigrants (Atiles and Bohon 2003) • (4) Missing link between immigrants and local past • But… • Impacts? How the history of one immigrant group shapes the present reception of another?

  9. “perhaps the most significant trend in U.S. population redistribution over the past quarter century” (Lichter and Johnson 2009, 497) “a social, political, economic, and cultural revolution” (Striffler 2007, 676) “a golden opportunity to build our empirical and theoretical understanding of immigrant assimilation” by watching it unfold in new contexts (Waters and Jimenez 2005, 122) NIDs in the U.S. • (1) NIDs within the U.S. • States, counties, communities • (2) Strong focus on American South • (3) Rural, urban, and suburban

  10. ““one of the most striking demographic developments in recent European history” (Azzolini et al. 2012, 47) NIDs in Europe • (1) NIDs as countries • (2) “new,” emerging, immature, or young immigration • (3) Missing colonial ties • Ukrainian and Moldovan immigrants in Portugal • Latin Americans in Ireland vs. Spain (Marrow 2012) Parallel with NIDs in US and history of racial binary

  11. NIDs in the “Developing World” C.f. US story of NIDs • (1) Political shifts, as much as economic opportunities, produce NIDs • Changing geopolitical dynamics (Chinese workers in Israel) • Changing political regimes (Rwandan immigrants in South Africa) • Border tightening elsewhere (Nigerian immigrants in China) • (2) Growing trend of South-South migration geographies • Role of contract labor, EPZs, labor recruitment Different context and structure of reception

  12. NIDs in a comparative context? • Helen Marrow’s research in rural North Carolina • Hispanic newcomers arriving in 1990s • Past histories of internal tensions have indirectimpact on immigrants • Some Hispanic newcomers experience upward mobility • Ruth McAreavey’s research in rural Northern Ireland • Polish immigrants arriving after 2004 • Past histories of internal tensions have direct impact on immigrants • Most Polish immigrants experience downward mobility

  13. Conclusion Requires “stretching” • (1) Approaching NIDs in a global context makes new kinds of questions apparent • Diasporas • Worker experiences • (2) How much can the concept of “new immigrant destination” stretch? • (3) A literature focused only on the U.S. potentially misses the bigger picture. Implications of this stretching?

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