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Description & Citation--Study No. 22627

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:22627
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22627
 
Title:Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA), 2004
 
Principal Investigator(s):Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California-Irvine
 
  Frank D. Bean, University of California-Irvine
 
  Leo R. Chávez, University of California-Irvine
 
  Jennifer Lee, University of California-Irvine
 
  Susan K. Brown, University of California-Irvine
 
  Louis DeSipio, University of California-Irvine
 
  Min Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles
 
Funding Agency:Russell Sage Foundation
 
Bibliographic Citation:Rumbaut, Rub¿n G., Frank D. Bean, Leo R. Ch¿vez, Jennifer Lee, Susan K. Brown, Louis DeSipio, and Min Zhou. Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA), 2004 [Computer File]. ICPSR22627-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-07-01. doi:10.3886/ICPSR22627
 

Scope of Study

Summary:IIMMLA was supported by the Russell Sage Foundation (link). 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) (link), 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).
 
Subject Term(s):bilingualism, citizenship, community involvement, community participation, cultural identity, education, educational background, employment, ethnic identity, family background, family history, family size, family structure, generations, household composition, household income, immigration, immigration status, income, job history, marital status, neighborhood characteristics, neighborhood conditions, occupational status, personal income, political attitudes, political awareness, public assistance programs, social services, socioeconomic status
 
Geographic Coverage:California, Los Angeles, United States
 
Time Period:April 2004 - October 2004
 
Date(s) of Collection:April 2004 - October 2004
 
Unit of Observation:individual
 
Universe:Young adults aged 20-39 from six foreign-born and foreign-parentage groups: Mexican, Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, and Central American (Guatemalan and Salvadoran), as well as native-born and native-parentage Mexican-Americans, and non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Data collection for IIMMLA was subcontracted to and carried out by the Field Research Corporation (link), San Francisco, CA.
 

Methodology

Sample:multistage random sampling.
 
Mode of Data Collection:telephone interview
 
Extent of Processing:CONCHK.PR/ FREQ.PR/ UNDOCCHK.PR/ MDATA.PR/ REFORM.DOC
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2008-06-19
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2008-07-01.
 
  2008-07-01 - Edits were made to the metadata record.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA), 2004
 

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