Adaptation Process of Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 1972-1979

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Label

Adaptation Process of Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 1972-1979

Creator

• Portes, Alejandro
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Contributor

• Bach, Robert L.

Author

• Portes, Alejandro
• Bach, Robert L.

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• children
• demographic characteristics
• discrimination
• education
• ethnicity
• human behavior
• immigrants
• marital status
• memberships
• Cuban Americans
• occupations
• parents
• religious beliefs
• residents
• salaries
• survey
• motivation
• Mexican Americans
• adaptation
• aspirations
• birth

Genre

• survey

Summary

For this data collection, Cuban and Mexican male immigrants were interviewed upon their entry into the United States in 1973-1974, with follow-up interviews in 1976 and 1979. The project sought to explore the causes and results of changes that occur following immigration by examining the complex interrelationships between the effects of what immigrants "bring with them" and the social and economic context that receives them. The first interview elicited demographic information such as marital status, number of children, education, parental information, present and prior occupations, date and community of birth, prior residency in the United States, present residency, relatives and friends in the United States, religious practices, and association membership. Respondents were also asked about their reasons for coming to the United States, plans to change residency, perceptions of discrimination in the United States, and aspirations concerning future occupations, salaries, education, and opportunities to reach their goals. Subsequent interviews expanded upon or recorded changes in these areas and also added wife's information and items on perceptions of problems in the United States, ethnicity of social relationships and neighborhood, satisfaction with living in the United States, plans to return to their homeland, languages spoken, read, and listened to, whether residence was owned or rented, and whether respondent had become a United States citizen. The study also recorded Duncan Scores, Treiman Scores, and scores on the Kahl Modernity Index, Knowledge of English Index, and Knowledge of U.S. Index