Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA), 2004

IIMMLA was supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. Since 1991, the Russell Sage Foundation has funded a program of research aimed at assessing how well the young adult offspring of recent immigrants are faring as they move through American schools and into the labor market. Two previous major studies have begun to tell us about the paths to incorporation of the children of contemporary immigrants: The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), and the Immigrant Second Generation in New York study. The Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles study is the third major initiative analyzing the progress of the new second generation in the United States. The Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA) study focused on young adult children of immigrants (1.5- and second-generation) in greater Los Angeles. IIMMLA investigated mobility among young adult (ages 20-39) children of immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles and, in the case of the Mexican-origin population there, among young adult members of the third- or later generations. The five-county Los Angeles metropolitan area (Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties) contains the largest concentrations of Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Filipinos, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, and other nationalities in the United States. The diverse migration histories and modes of incorporation of these groups made the Los Angeles metropolitan area a strategic choice for a comparison study of the pathways of immigrant incorporation and mobility from one generation to the next. The IIMMLA study compared six foreign-born (1.5-generation) and foreign-parentage (second-generation) groups (Mexicans, Vietnamese, Filipinos, Koreans, Chinese, and Central Americans from Guatemala and El Salvador) with three native-born and native-parentage comparison groups (third- or later-generation Mexican Americans, and non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks). The targeted groups represent both the diversity of modes of incorporation in the United States and the range of occupational backgrounds and immigration status among contemporary immigrants (from professionals and entrepreneurs to laborers, refugees, and unauthorized migrants). The surveys provide basic demographic information as well as extensive data about socio-cultural orientation and mobility (e.g., language use, ethnic identity, religion, remittances, intermarriage, experiences of discrimination), economic mobility (e.g., parents' background, respondents' education, first and current job, wealth and income, encounters with the law), geographic mobility (childhood and present neighborhood of residence), and civic engagement and politics (political attitudes, voting behavior, as well as naturalization and transnational ties).

IIMMLA项目由拉塞尔·塞奇基金会资助。自1991年以来，拉塞尔·塞奇基金会一直资助一项旨在评估近期移民的年轻后代在通过美国教育体系及进入劳动力市场过程中表现如何的研究计划。两项先前的重要研究已经开始揭示当代移民子女融入社会之路：移民子女纵向研究（CILS）和纽约移民第二代研究。移民与都市洛杉矶代际流动性研究（IIMMLA）是分析美国新第二代进步的第三个重要举措。IIMMLA研究聚焦于洛杉矶大都市区（包括洛杉矶、橙县、文图拉县、河滨县和圣贝纳迪诺县）的移民年轻子女（1.5代和第二代）。IIMMLA调查了洛杉矶大都市区年轻移民子女（20-39岁）的流动性，以及墨西哥裔人口中的年轻第三代或更晚辈成员。洛杉矶大都市区（包括洛杉矶、橙县、文图拉县、河滨县和圣贝纳迪诺县）是美国墨西哥人、萨尔瓦多人、危地马拉人、菲律宾人、华人、越南人、韩国人和其他民族聚居最为密集的地区。这些群体的多元化迁移历史和融入模式使得洛杉矶大都市区成为比较研究移民融入路径和代际流动性变迁的理想场所。IIMMLA研究对比了六个外国出生（1.5代）和外国血统（第二代）群体（墨西哥人、越南人、菲律宾人、韩国人、华人以及来自危地马拉和萨尔瓦多的中美洲人）与三个本土出生和本土血统的比较群体（第三代或更晚的墨西哥裔美国人、非西班牙裔的白人和黑人）。目标群体代表了美国融入模式之多样性以及当代移民的职业背景和移民状态的广泛范围（从专业人士和企业家到劳动者、难民和非法定移民）。调查提供了基本的人口统计数据，以及关于社会文化倾向和流动性（例如，语言使用、民族认同、宗教、汇款、通婚、歧视经历）的广泛数据，经济流动性（例如，父母背景、受访者教育程度、第一份和当前工作、财富和收入、与法律的接触），地理流动性（童年和现居住地区），以及公民参与和政治（政治态度、投票行为，以及归化身份和跨国联系）。