Author Archives: Lauren

Second generation immigrants are an interesting group of individuals who have tremendous opportunities in front of them.   In, The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants by Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou, the authors detail the second generation as … Continue reading →

Throughout the semester out class has been dividing neighborhoods and ethnicities and seeing the mixture between the two, and how the various ethnic groups came to transform their neighborhood into their own, and give it a certain ethnic flavor.  Through … Continue reading →

2010-2012 Daily News HEIGHTS OF DIVERSITY . 51 countries in just 3 blocks! BYLINE: BY SAM LEVIN DAILY NEWS WRITER With Nicole Lyn Pesce SECTION: QUEENS NEWS; Pg. 40 “Height of Diversity. 51 countries in just 3 blocks!” by Sam Levin describes … Continue reading →

Asian Americans can be seen as the paradigm of immigrants coming to the United States. Originally, the Asians were looked down upon as “yellow peril,” and were avoided, ostracized and shunned.  They were the subjects of exclusion and discrimination on … Continue reading →

Fuzhou City is an interesting city in China in that most of the smuggled aliens have been recruited from Fuzhou.  This seems strange that many of the smuggled immigrants have come from a relatively unheard of city in China. Why … Continue reading →

While Reading Miyares’ Changing Latinization of New York City, one of the points struck me.  New York City is not an area that can be described as having deep Hispanic roots.  This is an interesting point because if we think … Continue reading →

In this week’s readings, Becoming American/ Becoming New Yorkers describes an interesting phenomenon.  The article says that the experience and incorporation into the American system has a drastic effect on the immigrants themselves, and their children.  Gans, in 1992, wrote … Continue reading →

Many immigrants who come to America for a better life attempt to assimilate into culture, but often find that the culture from which they have come from is barring this assimilation.  This was especially true regarding the assimilation of the … Continue reading →