Housing and neighborhood quality among undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants |
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| Authors: | Matthew Hall Emily Greenman |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Policy Analysis and Management and Cornell Population Center, Cornell University, United States;2. Department of Sociology and Population Research Institute, Penn State University, United States;1. School of Business Administration, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea;2. Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, United States;3. Department of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University, United States;1. Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;2. Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;1. Department of Sociology, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172380, Bozeman, MT 59717-2380, USA;2. Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 232 Life Science, Duluth, MN 55812-3003, USA;1. “Carlo F. Dondena” Research Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, via G. Röntgen n. 1, 20136 Milan, Italy;2. Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Rua Almerindo Lessa, 1300-663 Lisboa, Portugal;3. Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University, via G. Röntgen n. 1, 20136 Milan, Italy;1. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1812 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208, United States;2. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, United States;3. Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;4. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, United States;5. Department of Preventative Medicine, Northwestern University, United States;6. Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States |
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| Abstract: | Extensive research has documented the challenges that undocumented immigrants face in navigating U.S. labor markets, but relatively little has explored the impact of legal status on residential outcomes despite their widespread repercussions for social well-being. Using data from the 1996–2008 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to impute documentation status among Mexican and Central American immigrants, we examine group differences in residential outcomes, including homeownership, housing crowding, satisfaction with neighborhood and housing quality, problems with neighborhood crime/safety, governmental services, and environmental issues, and deficiencies with housing units. Results from our analysis indicate that undocumented householders are far less likely to be homeowners than documented migrants, and also live in more crowded homes, report greater structural deficiencies with their dwellings, and express greater concern about the quality of public services and environmental conditions in their neighborhoods. In comparison to native whites, undocumented migrants’ residential circumstances are lacking, but their residential outcomes tend to be superior to those of native-born blacks. Overall, our results highlight the pervasive impact of legal status on stratifying Mexicans’ and Central Americans’ prospects for successful incorporation, but also underscore the rigidity of the black/nonblack divide structuring American residential contexts. |
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| Keywords: | Undocumented migration Legal status Housing quality Neighborhood quality Residential attainment Immigration |
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