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Immigrant economic adjustment and family organization: the Cuban success story reexamined
International migration review • 20 (1) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 1-20
By: Pérez, Lisandro.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article proposes an explanation of immigrant economic adjustment that rests on a household level approach. The data analyzed and presented here shows that the relative economic success of Cuban Americans cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration the economic organization of the Cuban family, an organization that facilitates upward social mobility (p. 8). Comparisons are made in the text between Cuban American income and characteristics of the labor force with those of other Hispanics and the population of the United States as a whole. This paper also points out the significant role of the elderly in contributing to Cuban family income.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cuban Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lisandro Pérez
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-20)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85645414
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuban Americans