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6 Issues in Research Design and Analysis of Migrant Integration
Pages 47-56

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... ENVIRONMENTAL DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRANT INTEGRATION Fernando Riosmena (University of Colorado Boulder) focused on methodological lessons learned from the study of immigrant integration in destination societies from his work on health-related integration and 47
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From page 48...
... Riosmena and his colleagues found evidence consistent with emigration selection in height, hypertension, and self-rated health among immigrants with less than 15 years of experience in the United States. They did not find conclusive evidence consistent with sociocultural protection mechanisms.
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From page 49...
... Droughts that occur in Mexico seem to be associated with migration to the United States, but it is difficult to identify this factor in a sample of U.S. migrants.
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... To address these issues, school districts across the United States have introduced newcomer programs to provide extra support (Short and Boyson, 2012)
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... Specifically, the proposed difference-in-differences estimate of the effect of the newcomer program is the after-2013 and before-2013 difference in the outcome among the newcomer students arriving to the United States in grades 4–5 (considered the treatment group as their eligibility for the newcomer program is changed by the expansion) minus the after/before difference among the newcomer students arriving in grades 6–8 (the comparison group; the expansion does not change their eligibility as they were always eligible)
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From page 52...
... The more distant students can be used to "difference out the difference" that would exist anyway between the high-scoring and low-scoring students, thereby separating out the effect that is due to the newcomer program eligibility. During the general discussion, Ellen Kraly pointed out that people working on the ground focus on their own programs rather than putting them into a broader framework, which produces complications in making a program scalable or relevant to policy.
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... The Vietnamese in New Orleans shared a common history and a common set of events that their non-Vietnamese neighbors did not share, which gave them a view of the world, or a way of interpreting it, that distinguished them from the other groups. He said that recent research on culture has typically employed qualitative approaches, either for conceptualizing or measuring culture, and that work that leverages quantitative methods is much less common.
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From page 54...
... We rebuild and move on." He added that this idea of being a member of a group of survivors is in their "cultural DNA." Another example of culture provided by VanLandingham involves frames, including a frame of insularity. Many of the Vietnamese who came to the United States had not looked to the South Vietnamese authorities when they had a problem.
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From page 55...
... , so can difficulty beget difficulty. Jon Pedersen similarly noted that it is relatively easy to have a discussion about culture when culture is seen as something positive that helps resilience.
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... Katharine Donato cautioned that this might be difficult because culture is dynamic. Fernando Riosmena, responding to a question about the "Hispanic health paradox," indicated that it could be explained either by population selection or by ethnic community protective factors (e.g., relating to people being buffered from stress)
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  • research design
  • newcomer program
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  • initial english
  • english skills
  • protective factors
  • administrative data
  • requires combining

  • policy change
  • community protective
  • english acquisition
  • newcomer students
  • english language

  • forced migrants
  • migrant population
  • fernando riosmena
  • parallel trend
  • language instruction

  • chin observed
  • using administrative
  • cultural identity
  • vanlandingham observed
  • tulane university

  • examining selection
  • school district
  • test scores
  • evidence consistent
  • combining data


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