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      Citizenship and Naturalization Patterns of Immigrants in the Southeastern United States And Their Political Consequences

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          This study examines naturalization rates in the southeastern United States and compares them to other regions while investigating some political consequences of naturalization. In terms of the number of naturalized citizens and naturalization rates, the Southeast lags behind states with long immigration histories. In all U.S. southeastern states, Asians comprise the largest group of naturalized citizens, but rates vary. Mexicans and Central Americans are the least likely to obtain citizenship in all southeastern states. The authors also find and discuss a small immigrant presence in the U.S. House of Representatives and a significant positive correlation between states' naturalization rates and the percentage of the state that voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

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          El presente estudio examina las tasas de naturalización en el sureste de Estados Unidos y las compara con las de otras regiones, mientras investiga algunas de sus consecuencias políticas. En términos del número de ciudadanos naturalizados y de las tasas de naturalización, el sureste se mantiene atrás de estados que tienen largas historias de inmigración. En todos los estados del sureste estadunidense, los asiáticos tienen los mayores números de ciudadanos naturalizados, aunque las tasas varían. Los mexicanos y los centroamericanos son quienes tienen menos probabilidades de obtener la ciudadanía en los estados del sureste. Los autores también encuentran y discuten la escasa presencia de inmigrantes en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos y una correlación positiva significativa entre la tasa de naturalización de un estado y el porcentaje que votó por Barack Obama en la elección presidencial de 2008.

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              Explaining immigrant naturalization.

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              "Prior research on immigrant naturalization has focused mainly on the effects of immigrants' adaptation experiences and demographic characteristics on their propensity to naturalize. This article proposes a broader analytical framework which incorporates immigrants' individual characteristics and larger social contexts in the country of origin and the country of destination to explain the likelihood of citizenship acquisition. The framework is tested for a cohort of recent immigrants, using the PUMS data from the 1980 U.S. census. The results show that economic, political, social, cultural and geographical conditions in the country of origin, and immigrants ethnic communities and urban concentration in the country of destination, to a large extent influence immigrants' propensity for naturalization and that, net of the contextual factors, many of the immigrants' adaptation and demographic characteristics are also significant predictors of citizenship acquisition."
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                Journal
                namerica
                Norteamérica
                Norteamérica
                UNAM, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (México, DF, Mexico )
                1870-3550
                2448-7228
                2011
                : 6
                : spe
                : 179-208
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameGeorgia State University orgdiv1Department of Sociology cjaret@ 123456gsu.edu
                [02] orgnameGeorgia State University orgdiv1Department of Sociology kolozsvario@ 123456freemail.hu
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                S1870-35502011000300006 S1870-3550(11)00600000006
                8839e2ec-fd15-4068-9b65-a0842d45f90b

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 25 February 2011
                : 15 April 2011
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 38, Pages: 30
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                SciELO Mexico

                Categories
                Contemporary issues

                politics,immigrants,naturalization,citizenship,política,inmigrantes,naturalización,ciudadanía

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