By María Aysa-Lastra, Lorenzo Cachón
This e-book explores how the present sustained financial slow-down in North the USA and Europe has elevated immigrant vulnerability within the hard work industry and of their day-by-day lives. It information the methods this worldwide recession has affected the immigrants themselves, their identities, in addition to their nations of foundation. The ebook provides an interdisciplinary discussion in addition to provide a transatlantic comparative standpoint. It first specializes in the rapid results of the nice Recession on immigrants’ employment. subsequent, it connects the event of immigrants within the exertions industry with their stories within the social area in receiving societies. assurance additionally explores the results of the commercial downturn on transnational practices, remittances and go back of Latin American migrants to their international locations of origin.
This quantity could be of significant curiosity to school and graduate scholars who're drawn to foreign migration reviews from the fields of sociology, economics, anthropology, geography, political sciences, and different social sciences. it's going to even be of curiosity to execs and coverage makers engaged on overseas migration coverage and most of the people at the topic.
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Academic resilience among undocumented Latino students. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 31(2), 149–181. Pfeffer, F. , & Schoeni, R. F. (2013). Wealth disparities before and after the great recession. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 650, 98–123. Piore, M. J. (1979). Birds of passage: Migrant labor and industrial societies. New York: Century University Press. Portes, A. (1978). Introduction: Toward a structural analysis of illegal (undocumented) immigration.
In 2010, employment trends in the US and in Spain branched away: the US started a slow employment recovery; but in Spain, employment continued its significant decline. The employment trends of Latinos in both countries differ. In the US, Latino employment recovers at a faster pace than native employment but in an uneven fashion because there is a notable increase in underemployment and great sensitivity to further declines in economic growth. In Spain, the Latino immigrants’ job losses are “catastrophic” as they amount to 25 % over the last 2 years (see Fig.
LAa 34 L. Cach on and M. Aysa-Lastra 2 Native and Latino Employment During the Great Recession in the US and Spain 35 Economic activity rates (the ratio of the labor force to the working age population, expressed in percentages) are key indicators of the different generations participating in the labor market. 2 % in 2013. 9 % and it continued to grow, reaching 60 % in 2010, then slightly declining over the last 3 years. In the case of naturalized Latino citizens and Latino immigrants, the activity rates reflect diverse institutional aspects of their migration histories.