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This project follows a previous NIH grant, Mexican American Trajectories: Family, Marriage, and Geography Across a Century, which studied the children of immigrants. Again the Principal Investigator is Brian Gratton, Professor of History at Arizona State University and the Co-Investigator is Myron Gutmann, Director of Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and Professor of History at the University of Michigan. IntroductionUsing new data from several U.S. censuses, Immigrant Elders: Living Arrangements, 1850-2000, seeks to categorize the living arrangements of the elderly over three distinct periods of immigration. The grant uses multivariate analysis to test for ethnocultural, economic, welfare, policy, demographic, and period effects. The living arrangements of native White and native Black elderly will be contrasted against those of different immigrant groups. The study will determine what is consistent, episodic and ephemeral in determining living arrangements, thus providing a stronger overall theory. As the U.S. population ages, anticipating the life choices of the nation's aged population will have broad policy implications. Although the elderly population is now largely native and generally prefers autonomous living arrangements, the future aged will increasingly be members of immigrant origin groups who originate from cultures that may favor interdependent living arrangements between the elderly and younger relatives. It has been estimated that, by 2050, Hispanics will have climbed from less than 5% of the elderly population to 17.5% and Asians from 2.3% to nearly 11%. In addition to testing basic propositions in theory about family relationships, the research may provide vital information for public policy concerning the elderly by answering the question: Will the future aged population choose living arrangements based upon those traditional to their countries of origin, showing preference for shared households and reliance on family, i.e. interdependence? Or will they shift toward native norms of independence and separate households, i.e. autonomy?
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Dr. Brian Gratton, Department of History |
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Lijie Cao |
Researcher
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Contact Information |
Dr. Brian Gratton |
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Links and Sponsors |
Immigrant Elders: Living Arrangements, 1850-2000 Mexican American Trajectories: Family, Marriage, and Geography Across a Century |
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Mexican American Trajectories: www.icpsr.umich.edu/ATMAF Publications based in whole or in part on NIH project data: “The Families of Children, 1880 to 1970: Social Science Theory and Ethnicity,” with M. Gutmann and E. Skop. Social Science History. Under review. “La Frontera and Beyond: Geography and Demography in Mexican-American History,” with M. Gutmann and E. Skop. Professional Geographer. Forthcoming. “Hispanic Population Estimates,” with M. Gutmann and E. Wildsmith, in Historical Statistics of the United States , ed. S. Carter, et al. (NY: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming) . “Immigration, Culture, and Child Labor in the United States , 1880—1920,” with J. Moen. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34(3), Winter 2004: 355-391. “Assimilation and Intermarriage for U.S. Immigrant Groups, 1880-1990,” with E. Wildsmith and M. P. Gutmann, The History of the Family 8(4) 2003: 563-584. “Race, the Children of Immigrants, and Social Science Theory,” Journal of American Ethnic History 21(4) Summer 2002: 74-84. “Los efectos demográficos de la revolución mexicana en Estados Unidos (“The Demographic Impact of the Mexican Revolution in the United States,”),” with M. Gutmann, R. McCaa, and R. Gutiérrez-Montes, Historia Mexicana L/1 julio-septiembre 2000: 145—165 . “Hispanics in the United States , 1850-1990: Estimates of Population Size and National Origin,” with M. Gutmann. Historical Methods 33(3), Summer 2000: 137-53. |
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