Latino Migration to the Rural Midwest in the United States

DOI Web Site
  • MAZUMl Yusuke
    Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • アメリカ中西部農村地域へのラティーノ移民の移動
  • アメリカ中西部農村地域へのラティーノ移民の移動--社会関係資本を介した移動過程の考察
  • アメリカ チュウセイブ ノウソン チイキ エノ ラティーノ イミン ノ イドウ シャカイ カンケイ シホン オ カイシタ イドウ カテイ ノ コウサツ
  • 社会関係資本を介した移動過程の考察
  • Social Capital and Migration Process

Search this article

Abstract

Since the 1990's Latino immigrants in the United States have increased not only in the Southwest and large metropolitan cities but also in rural regions of the Midwest and the South. Using a rural city (City "A") in Iowa as a case study, this paper explores how social capital mediates the process of migration to new destinations. Specifically, the paper looks at what kind of actors provided immigrants with the resource necessary to relocate, and how these actors varied by migration periods and trajectories. Regarding migration trajectories, the paper places a particular analytical emphasis on the process of internal migration for the following two reasons. First, previous studies concerning immigrants' new destinations tended to focus on macro-structural economic and political factors in accounting for internal migration. Second, by setting immigrants' communities of origin as the unit of analysis, studies on social capital and migration have implicitly limited the social circles in which potential migrants can mobilize social capital to people from the same hometown. By paying attention to internal migration, this paper sheds light on networks created in the U.S. and their role in forming new migrant destinations.<br>　While the immigrant influx to new destinations in the 1990's was initiated by those who relocated to traditional settlement regions, according to the data results, this phase of migration has mainly been realized through friend networks which, in comparison with family/kin networks, are able to connect immigrants with members of a broader society. This dynamic stands in contrast to immigration from countries of origin, which was dependent on family/kin networks. In addition, these friend networks were not limited to ties among individuals from the same hometown. Ties formed in the U.S.among Latinos were also an important element which assisted the initial migration stage to new destinations.

Journal

  • SOSHIOROJI

    SOSHIOROJI 52 (1), 71-86,156, 2007

    SHAKAIGAKU KENKYUKAI

Details 詳細情報について

Report a problem

Back to top