The Socioeconomic Attainments of Second-Generation Southeast Asian Americans in the 21st Century: Evidence from the American Community Survey, 2012–2016
Autor: | John Iceland, Thomas Siskar, Arthur Sakamoto |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Poverty
media_common.quotation_subject Vietnamese 05 social sciences Immigration Management Monitoring Policy and Law Southeast asian language.human_language American Community Survey Geography Racialized society 050902 family studies parasitic diseases 0502 economics and business language Household income 050207 economics 0509 other social sciences Socioeconomic status Demography media_common |
Zdroj: | Population Research and Policy Review. 41:59-88 |
ISSN: | 1573-7829 0167-5923 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11113-021-09636-9 |
Popis: | Although decades have passed since the initial immigration of Southeast Asians to the U.S. after the Vietnam War, the socioeconomic outcomes of the native-born offspring of Southeast Asian immigrants have not been adequately considered in recent research. We therefore investigate current data on the education, wages, poverty, affluence, and household income of Southeast Asian Americans. The results indicate that the socioeconomic outcomes of native-born Southeast Asian Americans are substantially higher than their immigrant generation. Second-generation Thai and Vietnamese tend to have higher socioeconomic outcomes than whites, while second-generation Cambodians, Hmong and Laotians have lower outcomes than whites. However, none of the five native-born Southeast Asian groups are penalized in terms of wages net of their demographic characteristics. Furthermore, all five of the native-born Southeast Asian groups generally have higher socioeconomic outcomes than African Americans and Hispanics. Whereas prior discussions of Southeast Asian Americans imply that their lower socioeconomic characteristics derive from the intergenerational persistence of minority discrimination in an inherently racialized society, we instead view them as being broadly consistent with assimilation theory which has traditionally been based on a three-generational model. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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