Deporting social capital: Implications for immigrant communities in the United States

National labor unions in the United States have formally supported undocumented immigrants since 2000. However, drawing on 69 interviews conducted between 2012 and 2016 with union and immigrant rights leaders, this article offers a locally grounded account of how union solidarity with undocumented immigrants has varied notably across the country. We explore how unions in San Francisco and Houston have engaged with Obama-era immigration initiatives that provided historic relief to some undocumented immigrants. We find that San Francisco’s progressive political context and dense infrastructure of immigrant organizations have enabled the city’s historically powerful unions to build deep institutional solidarity with immigrant communities during the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA [2012]) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA [2014]) programs. Meanwhile, Houston’s politically divided context and much sparser infrastructure of immigrant organizations made it necessary for the city’s historically weaker unions to build solidarity with immigrant communities through more disparate channels.

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Covid Alone: The Complementarity Between Social Capital and Formal Public Health Rules in the United States

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3863619 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Byron Carson ◽

Justin P. Isaacs ◽

Anthony M. Carilli

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

United States ◽

Social Capital ◽

The United States

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Kebijakan Imigrasi Presiden Trump Terhadap Masyarakat Imigran Di Amerika Serikat Tahun 2017-2018

GLOBAL INSIGHT JOURNAL ◽

10.52447/gij.v6i2.4763 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Made Fitri Padmi ◽

Zaenab Yulianti

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Immigration Policy ◽

The United States ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Executive Order ◽

Literature Study ◽

Donald Trump ◽

Executive Orders ◽

Muslim Countries ◽

The Impact

AbstrakTulisan membahas tentang kebijakan imigrasi Donald Trump pada 2 tahun pertama dan dampaknya terhadap masyarakat imigran di Amerika Serikat. Kebijakan imigrasi yang penulis bahas dalam tulisan ini adalah Executive Order di tandatangi Donald Trump pada tahun 2017 terkait larangan akses masuk masyarakat dari tujuh negara muslim yang menurut Amerika Serikat merupakan negara pendukung terorisme. Karya tulis ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan studi kepustakaan serta penyajian data secara eksplanatif. Dalam tulisan ini menunjukan bahwa kebijakan imigrasi Donald Trump mengakibatkan dampak terhadap imigran dari tujuh negara muslim yang ada dan calon imigran yang akan menuju ke Amerika Serikat. Selain dampak terhadap sasaran utama, kebijakan ini juga berdampak pada imigran-imigran lain diluar tujuh negara tersebut serta keamanan, tindakan diskriminasi dan fenomena Xenophobia dan Islamophobia di Amerika Serikat.Kata Kunci: Donald Trump, Executive Order, Imigran, Diskriminasi AbstractThis paper discussed the impact of Donald Trump's immigration policy in the first 2 years against immigrant communities in the United States. The immigration policy that the writer discussed in this paper was the Executive Orders which was signed by Donald Trump in 2017 related to the prohibition of entry into the United States from seven Muslim countries, which according to the United States is a country supporting terrorism. This paper used a qualitative approach and literature study as well as an explanatory data presentation. The results of this paper showed that Donald Trump's immigration policy has had an impact on immigrants from seven existing Muslim countries and prospective immigrants heading to the United States. In addition to the impact on the main targets, this policy also affected other immigrants outside the seven countries as well as security, acts of discrimination and the phenomenon of Xenophobia and Islamophobia in the United States. Keywords: Donald Trump, Executive Order, Immigrants, Discrimination

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Conclusion

Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479804757.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Prema A. Kurien

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Global South ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Global Networks ◽

Religious Traditions ◽

Christian Churches ◽

Global Movement ◽

Religion And Ethnicity ◽

American Society

The conclusion provides an overview of what the Mar Thoma case teaches us regarding the types of changes globalization is bringing about in Christian immigrant communities in the United States, and in Christian churches in the Global South. It examines the impact of transnationalism on the Mar Thoma American denomination and community, specifically how the Kerala background of the community and the history of the church in Kerala impact the immigrant church. It also looks at how contemporary shifts in the understanding and practice of religion and ethnicity in Western societies impact immigrant communities and churches in the United States, the incorporation of immigrants of Christian backgrounds into American society, and evangelical Christianity in America. Finally, it discusses how large-scale out-migration and the global networks facilitated by international migrants affect Christianity in the Global South. The chapter concludes with an overview of how religious traditions are changed through global movement.

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Times, Tempos, and the Rhythm of Fast Fashion in Los Angeles and Seoul

Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479892150.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 269-282

Author(s):

Christina H. Moon

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Los Angeles ◽

The United States ◽

Material Object ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Fashion Industry ◽

Korean Immigrant ◽

Fast Fashion ◽

Downtown Los Angeles ◽

The City

Fast fashion is often a story about the most powerful global retail giants such as Zara and H&M. The rise and dominance of fast fashion within the United States, however, areintimately tied to the work of Korean immigrant communities within downtown Los Angeles. In the last decade alone, Koreans have refashioned the city of Los Angeles into the central hub of fast fashion in the Americas, designing and distributing clothing from Asia to the largest fast-fashion retailers throughout the Americas. This chapter explores the work of these fast-fashion families who blur the lines between design and copy, author and imitator, exploiter and exploited. How do their modes of work profoundly transform the material object of clothing? How do they complicate the assumed directions and global flows of design and production in the global fashion industry? And finally, what role does risk and failure play—in a landscape of creativity, aspiration, and imagining—to make fast fashion even a possibility?

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Asian Immigrant Communities' Civic Participation in Cultivating Bilingualism and Biliteracy in the United States

Handbook of Research on Engaging Immigrant Families and Promoting Academic Success for English Language Learners - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8283-0.ch008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 157-171

Author(s):

Kwangok Song

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Heritage Language ◽

Immigrant Students ◽

The United States ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Asian Immigrant ◽

Heritage Languages ◽

Heritage Language Schools ◽

Children's Literacy ◽

Language Schools

This chapter discusses how Asian immigrant communities in the United States cultivate Asian immigrant children's literacy learning in their heritage languages. Although the United States has historically been a linguistically diverse country, bilingualism has not always been valued and acknowledged. Strong social and institutional expectations for immigrants to acquire the socially dominant language have resulted in language shifts among immigrants. Concerned about their descendants' heritage language loss, Asian immigrant communities make organized efforts to establish community-based heritage language schools. Heritage language schools play an important role in immigrant children's learning of their heritage language and culturally appropriate ways of behaving and communicating. It has also been noted that heritage language schools encounter several challenges in motivating heritage language learners. Heritage language schools should be considered as complementary education for immigrant students because they take critical responsibilities to support immigrant students' language and literacy development in their heritage languages.

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Cultural Differences in Trust in High-Tech International Business Ventures

Managing Dynamic Technology-Oriented Businesses ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1836-7.ch001 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Alexandra Gerbasi ◽

Dominika Latusek

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Capital ◽

Field Study ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

Joint Venture ◽

Silicon Valley ◽

The United States ◽

High Tech ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Start Up

This chapter presents results from the qualitative field study conducted in a Silicon Valley-based American-Polish start-up joint venture. It investigates the issues of collaboration within one firm that is made up of individuals from two countries that differ dramatically in generalized trust: Poland and the United States. The authors explore differences between thick, knowledge-based forms of trust and thin, more social capital-oriented forms of trust, and they discuss how these affect collaboration between representatives of both cultures. Finally, the authors address how these differences in trust can both benefit an organization and also cause it difficulties in managing its employees.

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Predicting Unauthorized Salvadoran Migrants’ First Migration to the United States between 1965 and 2007

Journal on Migration and Human Security ◽

10.1177/2331502418765404 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 131-144 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal ◽

Karen A. Pren

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Capital ◽

El Salvador ◽

Latin American ◽

Event History Analysis ◽

Household Head ◽

Physical Capital ◽

The United States ◽

Work Related ◽

Permanent Residency

Although Salvadoran emigration to the United States is one of the most important migratory flows emanating from Latin America, there is insufficient information about the predictors of first unauthorized migration from El Salvador to the United States. In this study, we use data from the Latin American Migration Project–El Salvador (LAMP-ELS4) to perform an event history analysis to discern the factors that influenced the likelihood that a Salvadoran household head would take a first unauthorized trip to the United States between 1965 and 2007. We take into account a series of demographic, social capital, human capital, and physical capital characteristics of the Salvadoran household head; demographic and social context variables in the place of origin; as well as economic and border security factors at the place of destination. Our findings suggest that an increase in the Salvadoran civil violence index and a personal economic crisis increased the likelihood of first-time unauthorized migration. Salvadorans who were less likely to take a first unauthorized trip were business owners, those employed in skilled occupations, and persons with more years of experience in the labor force. Contextual variables in the United States, such as a high unemployment rate and an increase in the Border Patrol budget, deterred the decision to take a first unauthorized trip. Finally, social capital had no effect on the decision to migrate; this means that for unauthorized Salvadoran migrants, having contacts in the United States is not the main driver to start a migration journey to the United States. We suggest as policy recommendations that the United States should award Salvadorans more work-related visas or asylum protection. For those Salvadorans whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has ended, the United States should allow them to apply for permanent residency. The decision not to continue to extend TPS to Salvadorans will only increase the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. The United States needs to revise its current immigration policies, which make it a very difficult and/or extremely lengthy process for Salvadorans and other immigrants to regularize their current immigration status in the United States. Furthermore, because of our research findings, we recommend that the Salvadoran government — to discourage out-migration — invest in high-skilled job training and also offer training and credit opportunities to its population to encourage business ventures.

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