Latinos In Ethnic Enclaves: Immigrant Workers And The Competition For Jobs (latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural And Legal Issues)

This work explores the competition for jobs between different Latin American immigrant groups in the US economy. While it has been widely established that many Cuban immigrants have found economic success in Miami and New Jersey, no previous work has examined the impact of this Cuban success on the well-being of Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Columbians, and other Central and South Americans in the United States. It is argued in this book that some of this success may have come at the expense of Mexicans, Nicaraguans, and other Central Americans who provide a cheap pool of labor for Latino entrepreneurs but face discrimination in job promotions at the hands of both white and Latino bosses. Bohon's research looks at occupational status attainment among Latino groups in Miami and three other US cities with flourishing Latino enclaves (New York, Los Angeles, and Jersey City, New Jersey). There she shows the disadvantaged position of some groups regardless of their levels of education, job experience, English fluency, and other factors. Immigrant occupational attainment in Latino enclaves is also compared to the average job prestige found in Asian enclave cities and selected US cities that are dominated by non-immigrant whites, offering, for the first time ever, an analysis of cross-enclave contexts. LATINO COMMUNITIES EMERGING VOICES POLITICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND LEGAL ISSUES......Page 1 Latinos In Ethnic Enclaves: Immigrant Workers and The Competition For Jobs......Page 2 Contents......Page 5 List of Tables......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Latino Immigrants and Ethnic Enclaves......Page 12 BACKGROUND AND THEORY......Page 15 HYPOTHESES......Page 16 Adaptation Within Latino Enclaves......Page 17 Adaptation Across Labor Market Contexts......Page 18 Sample Distributions......Page 53 1985......Page 54 Male Socioeconomic Index......Page 57 and......Page 59 good, alternative indicator of immigrant attainment.......Page 60 The Independent Variables......Page 61 Across Area Models......Page 64 Segmented Assimilation and Queuing......Page 24 SEGMENTED ASSIMILATION AND QUEUING THEORY......Page 25 Empirical Applications......Page 28 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRIOR RESEARCH AND THEORY......Page 21 THEORIES OF ADAPTATION AND THE ETHNIC ENCLAVE ECONOMY......Page 30 Ethnic Enclaves and Enclave Theory......Page 34 THE IMPACT OF THE ENCLAVE ON IMMIGRANT ECONOMIC ADAPTATION......Page 37 Miami......Page 39 Los Angeles......Page 41 New York......Page 43 Similarities and Differences in the Latino Enclaves......Page 44 THE IMPACT OF THE ENCLAVE ON NON- COETHNIC WORKERS......Page 46 Sample Selection Criteria......Page 48 Sample Selection Issues......Page 49 Enclave Selection......Page 50 Place of Work and Place of Residence Considerations......Page 51 Occupational Attainment within Latino Enclaves......Page 68 Descriptive Statistics......Page 69 Regression Analysis......Page 74 Impact of the Control Variables......Page 78 Descriptive Statistics......Page 81 Regression Analysis......Page 84 CONCLUSIONS......Page 88 Discrimination and Competition among Long -Term Immigrants......Page 92 Descriptive Statistics......Page 112 Regression Analysis......Page 117 The Decomposition Model......Page 120 CONCLUSIONS......Page 123 Discrimination and Competition among Recent Immigrants......Page 110 Conclusions......Page 126 Assimilation and Queuing Theory......Page 133 Enclave Theory......Page 135 Implications for Public Policy......Page 136 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE STUDY......Page 138 Appendixes......Page 140 THE ALLOCATION OF IMMIGRANTS TO THE SAMPLE......Page 142 Appendix B......Page 150 Notes......Page 158 Bibliography......Page 164 Stephanie Bohon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 155-162) And Index.