Restricted Movement: Nativity, Citizenship, Legal Status, and the Residential Crowding of Latinos in Los Angeles. (7th February 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Restricted Movement: Nativity, Citizenship, Legal Status, and the Residential Crowding of Latinos in Los Angeles. (7th February 2015)
- Main Title:
- Restricted Movement: Nativity, Citizenship, Legal Status, and the Residential Crowding of Latinos in Los Angeles
- Authors:
- McConnell, Eileen Díaz
- Abstract:
- Abstract: Residential crowding is linked with the well-being of children and adults. Although extensive U.S. research indicates variation in crowding by race/ethnicity and nativity, far less work investigates differences in crowding by immigrants' citizenship and legal status. Data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) are used to focus on Latinos, the group most likely to experience crowding in the United States. The analyses examine heterogeneity in crowding among four distinct groups of Latinos: U.S.-born naturalized citizens, authorized noncitizen immigrants, and unauthorized noncitizen immigrants. Theories of locational attainment and immigrant assimilation are used to develop hypotheses about whether intra-Latino variation in crowding is explained by differences in individual, household, and other characteristics, and which structural factors also interfere in this process. Multivariate analyses indicate that neither nativity nor citizenship status are linked with residential crowding, net of other variables. In contrast, lacking legal status does have residual impacts on the outcome: unauthorized noncitizen immigrants are more crowded than authorized noncitizens and all other groups. The results offer support for the spatial assimilation and place stratification perspectives on locational attainment. These findings contribute to emerging scholarship documenting the unique structural challenges that unauthorized Latino immigrants experience inAbstract: Residential crowding is linked with the well-being of children and adults. Although extensive U.S. research indicates variation in crowding by race/ethnicity and nativity, far less work investigates differences in crowding by immigrants' citizenship and legal status. Data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) are used to focus on Latinos, the group most likely to experience crowding in the United States. The analyses examine heterogeneity in crowding among four distinct groups of Latinos: U.S.-born naturalized citizens, authorized noncitizen immigrants, and unauthorized noncitizen immigrants. Theories of locational attainment and immigrant assimilation are used to develop hypotheses about whether intra-Latino variation in crowding is explained by differences in individual, household, and other characteristics, and which structural factors also interfere in this process. Multivariate analyses indicate that neither nativity nor citizenship status are linked with residential crowding, net of other variables. In contrast, lacking legal status does have residual impacts on the outcome: unauthorized noncitizen immigrants are more crowded than authorized noncitizens and all other groups. The results offer support for the spatial assimilation and place stratification perspectives on locational attainment. These findings contribute to emerging scholarship documenting the unique structural challenges that unauthorized Latino immigrants experience in residential outcomes and other domains in the United States. El residir en viviendas hacinadas está relacionado con el bienestar de adultos y niños o su ausencia. Mientras varios estudios previos han documentado la variación en el hacinamiento residencial por raza/etnia y nacionalidad, existen pocos estudios que relacionan situaciones de hacinamiento entre inmigrantes por nacionalidad y estatus legal o condición jurídica. Este estudio se centra en la población latina, que es el grupo más propenso al hacinamiento en los Estados Unidos. Nuestro análisis se basa en los datos de la Encuesta de Familia y Vecindad en Los Angeles (Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Srvey o LAFANS) y en datos transversales recogidos entre 2000 y 2002 para examinar las diferencias en el hacinamiento residencial entre cuatro grupos latinos en Los Angeles: los nacidos en los Estados Unidos, los ciudadanos naturalizados, los inmigrantes con documentos y los inmigrantes indocumentados. Las teorías sobre la consecución de lugares de residencia no hacinada se utilizan para desarrollar hipótesis en torno a la variación en el hacinamiento. Se trata de examinar si esta variación se debe a diferencias en características individuales, características del hogar y características de la vecindad o si es el resultado de barreras estructurales que interfieren con el proceso de consecución de residencia no hacinada. El análisis multivariado indica que el haber nacido en los Estados Unidos o el estatus legal no están vinculados con el hacinamiento. Sólo el carecer de estatus legal tiene efectos residuales sobre el hacinamiento pues los inmigrantes indocumentados tienen mayores tasas de hacinamiento que los demás grupos. Estos resultados contribuyen a fortalecer nuestro conocimiento sobre los obstáculos estructurales que impiden la movilidad ascendente y la consecución de viviendas no hacinadas entre los inmigrantes latinos indocumentados en los Estados Unidos. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Social problems. Volume 62:Number 1(2015:Feb.)
- Journal:
- Social problems
- Issue:
- Volume 62:Number 1(2015:Feb.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 62, Issue 1 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 62
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0062-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 141
- Page End:
- 162
- Publication Date:
- 2015-02-07
- Subjects:
- housing -- crowding -- Latinos -- immigration -- legal status -- citizenship
Social problems -- Periodicals
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http://www.oxfordjournals.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/socpro/spu007 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0037-7791
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