Abstract
Existing paradigms of immigrant incorporation fruitfully describe immigrants’ upward or downward mobility across generations. Yet we know very little about intragenerational change. Drawing on a case in which upwardly mobile Latino immigrants see their gains reversed, I model what I call intragenerational reverse incorporation. In doing so, I theorize how incorporation gains can be undone through institutional closure and shifts in reception attitudes spurred by securitization and intensified immigration enforcement. Drawing on data gathered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I show how these changes both marginalized and racialized Latino immigrants, who in turn internalized and politicized their new status.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1002-1031 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | International Migration Review |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2019 |
Funding
The author thanks Mette Evelyn Bjerre, Mary Kate Blake, Hana Brown, Jessica Cobb, Jessica Collett, Reanne Frank, Kimberly Hoang, Tanya Golash-Boza, Erin Metz McDonnell, Elizabeth McClintock, Cassi Pittman, Christi Smith, Sandra Smith, the anonymous reviewers for their support and feedback, and the Winston-Salem community for their contribution to this work. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by grant SES-1031582 from the National Science Foundation, the UC Center for New Racial Studies, and the University of California, Berkeley.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Demography
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
