Will the new second generation experience ‘downward assimilation’? Segmented assimilation re-assessed

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Waldinger ◽  
Cynthia Feliciano
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Segmented Assimilation

Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Assimilation Theory ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Future Studies

The segmented assimilation theory offers a theoretical framework for understanding the process by which the new second generation – the children of contemporary immigrants – becomes incorporated into the system of stratification in the host society and the different outcomes of this process. This article examines the issues and controversies surrounding the development of the segmented assimilation theory and reviews the state of recent empirical research relevant to this theoretical approach. It also highlights main conclusions from recent research that bear on this theory and their implications for future studies.

scholarly journals Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation

Social Forces ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Haller ◽  
A. Portes ◽  
S. M. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Segmented Assimilation

Forging a Diasporic Nigerian Ethnicity in the United States and Britain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onoso Imoagene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assimilation Theory ◽  
Segmented Assimilation

Chapter 4 examines why the Nigerian second generation in both the United States and Britain did not forge a reactive black ethnicity as predicted by segmented assimilation theory. It describes how blackness can be constructed to be ethnically diverse. The chapter details how the Nigerian second generation are forging a diasporic Nigerian ethnicity in the United States and Britain via two simultaneous processes required in identity formation: signaling difference from members of other groups and establishing similarity to determine the boundaries of group membership. I thoroughly discuss the cultural, moral and socioeconomic boundaries established by the Nigerian second generation to delineate ethnic parameters between themselves and their proximal host. I also explain why the second generation in Britain does not draw as sharp of a boundary between themselves and their proximal hosts compared to their U.S. counterparts.

“You Are Not Like Me!”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onoso Imoagene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assimilation Theory ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Key Factor

Chapter 2 shows how the proximal host is a crucial actor influencing how the second generation of Nigerian ancestry identify. How the presence of the proximal host affects identity formation among the black second generation is generally overlooked in segmented assimilation theory and is a key factor emphasized in beyond racialization theory. The chapter details how relations with the proximal host in childhood, particularly feelings of rejection and exclusion based on perceived physical and cultural differences, laid the foundation for developing a distinct ethnicity in adulthood. I discuss the responses of the proximal hosts in the United States and Britain to the Nigerian second generation when they were young. What was viewed as discriminatory responses by members of the proximal host by the Nigerian second generation fostered a feeling of being black but different among the Nigerian second generation. The tense relations between proximal hosts and the African second generation required the young Nigerian second generation to start the process of defining what being black meant to them and defining a diasporic ethnic identity differentiating them from their proximal hosts.

Segmented assimilation on the ground: The new second generation in early adulthood

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1000-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Portes ◽  
Patricia Fernández-Kelly ◽  
William Haller
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Segmented Assimilation

New Second-Generation Youth Culture in the Twilight of Italian American Ethnicity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Tricarico
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Second Generation Children ◽  
American Ethnicity

This chapter views the Italian American youth culture known as “Guido” as a collective ethnic adaptation by young people whose immigrant parents settled in New York City, most notably Bensonhurst, after 1945. The ethnogenesis of second-generation youth blended thick Italian ethnicity with styles referenced to popular American culture like disco. New second-generation youth identity constitutes an ethnic agency according to a constructionist model of ethnicity that cannot be subsumed within the narrative of assimilation keyed to the older, mass immigration. Instead, a pronounced turn to consumption style invites a comparison to the new second generation children of post-1965 immigration from outside Europe featured in segmented assimilation theory which recognizes variable patterns as ethnic groups assimilate into different segments of a highly stratified society.

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