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From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration
The Review of Economic Studies ( IF 7.833 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 , DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdab038
Vasiliki Fouka 1 , Soumyajit Mazumder 2 , Marco Tabellini 3
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How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the US South to Northern urban centers, which were home to millions of European immigrants arrived in previous decades. We formalize and empirically test the hypothesis that the inflows of Black Americans changed perceptions of outgroup distance among native-born whites, reducing the barriers to the social integration of European immigrants. Predicting Black in-migration with a version of the shift-share instrument, we find that immigrants living in areas that received more Black migrants experienced higher assimilation along a range of outcomes, such as naturalization rates and intermarriages with native-born spouses. Evidence from the historical press and patterns of heterogeneity across immigrant nationalities provide additional support to the role of shifting perceptions of the white majority.

中文翻译:

从移民到美国人:大迁徙期间的种族与同化

新的少数群体的到来如何影响现有少数群体的社会接受度和结果?我们在第一次大迁徙的背景下研究这个问题。1915 年至 1930 年间,150 万非裔美国人从美国南部城市中心迁移到北部城市中心,在过去的几十年里,数百万欧洲移民在这里居住。我们正式化并实证检验了一个假设,即美国黑人的流入改变了本土出生的白人对外群体距离的看法,减少了欧洲移民社会融合的障碍。用一个版本的轮班份额工具预测黑人移民,我们发现生活在接受更多黑人移民的地区的移民在一系列结果中经历了更高的同化,例如入籍率和与本地出生的配偶通婚。来自历史媒体的证据和不同移民国籍的异质性模式为白人多数观念转变的作用提供了额外的支持。
更新日期:2021-07-01
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