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- ETHNICITY AND THE IMMIGRATION OF HIGHLY-SKILLED WORKERS TO THE UNITED STATES
ETHNICITY AND THE IMMIGRATION OF HIGHLY-SKILLED WORKERS TO THE UNITED STATES
Auteur :
Jasso
Guillermina
Année de Publication :
2008
Type : Actes de congrès / Séminaire / Atelier
Thème : Société
Couverture :
Etats-Unis d'Amérique
URL Article :
http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=90405URL Source :
http://iussp2009.princeton.edu 
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the three main employment categories (EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3), using data collected in the U.S. New Immigrant Survey. Initial findings include: (1) The visa categories have distinctive ethnic configurations. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3) Language is shed before religion, and religion may not be shed at all, except among the ultra highly skilled of EB-1. (4) Highly skilled immigrants are mostly male; they are not immune from lapsing into illegality; they have a shorter visa process than their cohortmates; smaller proportions than in the cohort overall intend to remain in the United States. (5) A little measure of assimilation – using dollars to describe earnings in the country of last residence, even when requested to use the country’s currency – suggests that highly skilled immigrants are more likely to “think in dollars” than their cohortmates. Further work is taking a deeper look at these patterns in a multivariate context, attentive to selectivity processes and the Globalista impulse.
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