Measuring immigrant assimilation in the United States
By: Jacob L. Vigdor / CCI, Center for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan Institute
Contributors: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Center for Civic Innovation; Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Series: Civic report -- no. 53; Civic report -- no. 53.
Publisher: Manhattan Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Assimilation (Sociology); Immigrants; Acculturation
Description: This report introduces a quantitative index that measures the degree of similarity between native- and foreign-born adults in the United States. It is the ability to distinguish the latter group from the former that we mean when we use the term "assimilation." The Index of Immigrant Assimilation relies on Census Bureau data available in some form since 1900 and as current as the year before last. The index reveals great diversity in the experiences of individual immigrant groups, which differ from each other almost as much as they differ from the native-born.
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