• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Looking Down or Looking Up: Status and Subjective Well-Being among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the United States
  • Beteiligte: Gelatt, Julia
  • Erschienen: Wiley Subscription Services, 2013
  • Erschienen in: International Migration Review, 47 (2013) 1, Seite 39-75
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1111/imre.12013
  • ISSN: 1747-7379; 0197-9183
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  • Beschreibung: Foundational theories of international migration rest on the assumption that immigrants maintain reference groups in their country of origin even after settling in a new place, while the transnationalism perspective suggests that immigrants maintain a dual frame of reference. This article uses the nationally representative National Latino and Asian American Survey to test the location of immigrants' reference groups. I find that the relationship between various measures of subjective social standing and subjective well-being suggests that immigrants maintain simultaneous reference groups in both the United States and the country of origin, supporting transnational theories, and refuting earlier theories.