자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016934964

International Standard Book Number  

9798380156721

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

301

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Ye, Leafia Zi.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(172 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Engelman, Michal.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.

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This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Past research on immigration has given much attention to whether immigrants become socioeconomically integrated into the host society over time and across generations. This literature has often spotlighted particular stages of immigrants' lives (e.g., working age). In this dissertation, I argue that because diverse immigrant populations are entering new life stages and encountering new challenges due to policy shifts, a life course perspective is needed to fully understand immigrants' well-being. Using high quality longitudinal data and administrative records, I investigate whether socioeconomic integration lasts through different stages of the life course among U.S. immigrants, and whether integration in one stage bears consequences for immigrants' well-being in another stage.Chapter 1 examines the recent increase in the number of immigrants reaching retirement age and their corresponding economic status in later life. While past research has concluded that immigrants experience upward mobility and catch up economically to the native-born as they work in the labor force for longer, we do not know whether this progress continues to occur in retirement. Using longitudinal data representative of the U.S. population aged 50+, I show that foreign-born individuals become downwardly mobile and face large economic disadvantages in later life. The explanation for this phenomenon lies in what I call "latent cumulative disadvantage": even as immigrants are approaching parity with the native-born in terms of current earnings, they accumulate disadvantages in Social Security coverage, job pension benefits, and retirement planning. The outcomes of this process do not become evident until retirement age.Chapter 2 identifies the consequences of legal exclusion of immigrant children from U.S. institutions. Although qualitative studies have highlighted how undocumented status restricts the lives of youths, there is limited evidence that demonstrates how these effects persist or change over time. Recent threats to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program also pose new questions about how undocumented youths might fare in absence of temporary legal relief. This paper was the first to infer and validate a measure of legal status in a nationally representative longitudinal study of adolescents. I concluded - from the study sample, which happens to be a cohort of children who were ineligible for DACA - that legal status deeply stratifies children's socioeconomic development, and that this stratification persists from college attendance in early adulthood to earnings in mid-adulthood. These findings directly speak to the extent of potential damages of repealing DACA and the benefits of securing citizenship for DREAMers.In Chapter 3, I consider the implication of immigrants' economic mobility for their later-life health trajectories. As immigrants become more economically integrated with the native-born population, they are also known to experience assimilation in health, where they have better health than the native-born upon arrival but lose this advantage over time. The co-existence of these two trajectories appears paradoxical, given robust positive associations between SES and health. Using earnings data from Social Security earnings records linked with health outcomes from survey data, this paper explores whether economic mobility benefits or harms immigrant health in later life. I find that while having an upwardly mobile earnings trajectory is associated with fewer functional limitations and better self-rated health at age 60, it is also associated with faster deterioration in self-rated health between ages 60 and 80. This study shows that adapting to U.S. society can be physically burdensome for the long term and calls for more institutional support for immigrant integration.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Sociology.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Demography.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Aging.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

American studies.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Immigrant integration

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Life course

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Migration

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Social inequality

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Socioeconomic mobility

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The University of Wisconsin - Madison Sociology - LS

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-02B.

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Dissertation Abstract International

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