Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
October 19, 2018
Summary:
How do migrants make the decision to naturalise? The majority of the literature focuses on the economic costs and benefit calculus of individual migrants, usually those who arrived as adults. Yet a large and growing population of foreign-born individuals arrived as children. Despite spending their formative years in the United States, many remain foreign nationals into adulthood. Based on results from a discrete-time event-history model of naturalisation of 1.5 generation respondents in California we argue that the cost?benefit trade-offs underlying most accounts of naturalisation decisions will apply in different ways to this population. We show that especially for this population the decision to naturalise cannot be conceptualised as an individual choice but is strongly embedded within the family and co-ethnic context which, in turn, introduces symbolic concerns and country of origin related factors into the decision.
Published in
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1534584
ISSN
1369183
Subjects
Link
- https://lib.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2069018?lang=eng
Notes
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