Explain the following phrase “Like housework, managing stores fosters alienation and isolation because it “affords little time and opportunity for women who run them to develop other skills or to establish close friends” (p. 636 in Espiritu 1999). This statement …
Provide examples of emotional and material support offered by Asian immigrant male and female networks. Emotional and material support offered by Asian immigrant Research shows that immigrants’ ethnic networks have been a source of social capital not only providing emotional …
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What is the main reason behind the high levels of Asian immigrants’ self-employment and self-employed entrepreneurship? Reason Asian immigrants’ self-employment and self-employed entrepreneurship? There are two major reasons for high level of Asian immigrants’ self-employment and self-employed entrepreneurship. Firstly United …
What is the main difference between early twenty centuries immigrant adaptation and today’s new immigrants’ forms of assimilation? Discuss at least two main differences. Adaptation in the early twenty centuries was a challenging task due to limited availability of social …
Asian ethnic entrepreneurship (small businesses) a source of “gender equity” or “gender inequality”? Explain and provide examples to illustrate your answer. Asian ethnic entrepreneurship is a big source of gender inequity in many respects. According to the research sources, majority …
Describe the significance of the term “small, foreign and female” and what it helps us understand regarding immigration flows and the relationship between labor market and immigration? Provide examples. Describe the significance of the term “small, foreign and female” The …
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Explain the relevance of migration and how transnational families powerfully alter the identity politics of their members in terms of culture and gender. Use the materials from the class to write an essay emphasizing these transformations focusing on the topic …
Children of Immigrant Parents When the cost and time of return to home countries is low as well as if the socio-economic conditions of the immigrant in the receiving country are not favorable, the immigrants’ children tend to keep stronger …
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Dissonant Acculturation Dissonant Acculturation occurs when children learn the new culture and loss their home country culture with a pace faster than their parents. This happens when the social capital in the immigrants’ receiving country is absent or rare. Children …
Consonant Acculturation Consonant acculturation occurs when the children and parents both learn American culture and gradually abandon their home language and “old country” ways at about the same pace. For example children learn English at the same age as of …