Showing papers in "International Migration Review in 1968"

Desocialization and Resocialization: The Adjustment Process of Immigrants

Abstract: The theoretical framework presented by S. N. Eisenstadt in the Absorption of Immigrants is further tested in this paper. The Author looks at the physical environment and the or? ganizational set-up of Israeli Society in order to derive their significance in the process of in? tegration of newcomers, especially from the viewpoint of personality needs and aspirations. Among the prerequisites to a smooth adjust? ment there should be in any immigrant-oriented society a period of time during which undue pressure on, and expectations from the im? migrants are avoided. In this way immigrants can find their place or build up their new sys? tem of roles and their new social identity without strains and psychological conflicts. From this study the key variables for success? ful adjustment appear to be the economic and political ones, while the role of the primary ethnic group is transitional even if indispen? sable psychologically during the time of transi? tion from desocialisation to resocialisation.

Australian Attitudes Toward Immigrants: A Review of Social Survey Findings

Abstract: Before the large scale immigration of European refugees began in 1949, the Australian population was almost entirely of English, Scottish and Irish origin. In 1947, 90 per cent of the population had been born in Australia and another eight per cent born in other British countries. Today only about 80 per cent of the total population were born in Aus? tralia and over 10 per cent were born in non-British countries. At the time when the immigration programme began in 1948, Aus? tralians as a whole were unfamiliar with non-British people and were opposed to their admission as immigrants, especially to those from Southern Europe, and from Asia and Africa. For example, in 1948, nearly 80 per cent of a Melbourne sample were opposed to the large scale

Adjustment and assimilation the Cuban refugee experience.

Abstract: On January 1 1959 Fidel Castro achieved power in Cuba. By mid-year 1961 he openly declared that he was of a Marxist-Leninist political orientation and that his regime would follow this philosophy. This revolutionary turn of events started an unprecedented exodus of refugees. The first persons seeking to preserve their traditional way of life abroad were the upper middle-class and the middle-class Cuban families. There had been a previous but limited exodus of ex-government banking and industrial officials. The core of Cuba’s intelligencia and middle class however had initially remained and had decided not to anticipate the inevitable conclusion that Cuba was to be Communist. By 1961 when the inevitable had become a fact the exodus began on a large scale. The wave of Cuban refugees moved mainly toward the U.S. mainland crested sometime in the Fall of 1965 and to this day it continues at an enormous pace. This mass movement of people is to both the Cuban and the American living testimony to the words of President Johnson when he stated "those who seek refuge here in America will find it" and to the memorable accord titled the "Memorandum of Understanding." (excerpt)

The Movement and Settlement of Puerto Rican Migrants within the United States, 1950-1960

Abstract: This article presents a concise summary of the geographic movement and settlement of Puerto Ricans within the United States from 1950 to 1960, based on data drawn from the Census taken on the latte...

Social Mobility of Puerto Ricans: Education, Occupation, and Income Changes among Children of Migrants, New York, 1950-1960

Abstract: Upward mobility is possible to an immigrant group if the institutions of the host society are open to social change and the immigrants’ culture encourages social mobility. The Author tests his assu...

Southern Europeans in Australia: Problems of Assimilation

Abstract: The search for a clearer definition of the concept and the social implications of immigrants’ integration is constantly renewed.Price extends his analysis to a number of different variables affecti...

The Refugee: A Search for Clarification

Abstract: For many years the spectre of the refugee has been threateningly apparent. This presence has not only been evident to the individual populations but it has also been of concern to the assembly of nations. Many resolutions and attempts at "good offices" have been made calling for either the reintegration of the refugee into the economic life ... by repatriation or resettlement or the addition of capital and resources to meet the ever mounting problem. Have these measures been enough or have they merely served to maintain a status quo? We will attempt a critical evaluation of at least one of the major problem areas evident in present refugee policy: the entity of the refugee proper. A re- appraisal of the definition of a refugee with an emphasis and concentration on the "entity" rather than the contributing causes to that entity will serve as a tool for further significant judgment and recommendations. The term ‘refugee’ has been vividly present to the international community for many years and still is today a time of repeated international crises and armed conflicts. (excerpt)

Assimilation of the Puerto Ricans on the Mainland: A Socio-Demographic Approach

Abstract: Social scientists have repeatedly tried to specify the process whereby assimilation takes place. This article points out the value of socio-demographic analysis in the study of assimilation, by des...