Progress 07/01/16 to 06/30/21
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What was accomplished under these goals?
This project had 3 key objectives. The first objective was to identify the factors that attract different categories of immigrants to destinations in the West. With the assistance of undergraduate student Emily Yong, I created a geographic database of economic and demographic factors associated with men's and women's immigration in different regions of the U.S. I presented this database as a poster at the 2018 annual conference of the Population Association of America. The second objective of the project was to identify consequences of immigration to the West, and determine whether these consequences are driven by specific sub-groups of immigrants. Under this objective, I chose to focus on two specific consequences: environmental consequences (air pollution) and community attachment. To examine environmental consequences, I worked with PhD student Guizhen Ma on two county-level studies of immigration and air quality, using Environmental Protection Agency air quality data. The first study modeled the association between immigration and air quality over time, and the second compared associations between air quality and different entry cohorts and origin groups of immigrants, finding that the association between air quality and immigration is dramatically different for immigrants from different regions of the world. To examine community attachment, I completed a qualitative study of male and female Latin American immigrants in Cache County (with PhD student Claudia Wright and MS student Emma Earl). We found that local conditions play a key role in allowing immigrants to integrate into their local community, even when national conditions are not favorable to integration. My students and I published a total of three journal articles based on the results of this objective. The final objective of the project was to conduct detailed cast studies of two or three specific destination cities. Unfortunately, because of both the pandemic and unsuccessful grant applications to the NSF and the Russel Sage Foundation, I only completed the single case study of Cache county described above.
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Progress 10/01/19 to 09/30/20
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Target Audience:The target audiences addressed in this reporting period: sociologists and demographers interested in migration to new U.S. destinations; and graduate students at USU interested in learning new research methods. Changes/Problems:As is true for many people, the time that I had available to do research declined notably in 2020. I had to home school my elementary-age child for several months, and I lost childcare for my preschooler. In addition, converting classes to remote formats was time consuming. These issues made me less productive in all aspects of my research. A second issue that I encountered (which was mostly unrelated to the pandemic) was that the WFRDC did not open as scheduled in early 2020. So although I had a first draft of a proposal to access restricted data at the WFRDC completed at the end of 2019, I was unable to begin the lengthy process of revising it to attain Census Bureau approval until late 2020. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The PI provided training to one PhD student: Claudia Mendez Wright (human subjects research issues, data management and analysis in Stata). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?An article published in 2019 in the Social Science Journal related to this project won the 2020 best article award from the Western Social Science Association and was highlighted at the (virtual) annual conference of the Association in April. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?In the remaining months of this project I will focus on revising my proposal to the WFRDC such that it receives Census Bureau approval, and hopeful beginning to actually work with restricted data at the WFRDC.
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What was accomplished under these goals?
As it was for many people, 2020 was a difficult year for me in terms of productivity (more detail provided below). I have two accomplishments to report: 1) I submitted a grant proposal to the Russell Sage Foundation to conduct research on immigrant integration during the COVID-19 pandemic; 2) I have made progress on revisions to my previous proposal to the Wasatch Front Research Data Center (WFRDC), as well as secured funding from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and applied for funding from the Center for Growth and Opportunity, to support access to the WFRDC once I have a successful proposal.
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Progress 10/01/18 to 09/30/19
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Target Audience:The target audiences addressed in this reporting period: sociologists and demographers interested in migration to new U.S. destinations; and graduate students at USU interested in learning new research methods. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The PI provided training to one PhD student: Claudia Mendez Wright (analyzing interview data, accessing and analyzing MSA-level census data). Training was also provided to one MS student (Emma Earl) in analyzing and writing up data). How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?I have published one academic article in this reporting period (in the Journal of International Migration and Integration). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?For the next reporting period, I have three objectives: 1) Work with the Wasatch Front Research Data Center to gain access to confidential, geocoded census data; 2) Revise and resubmit my NSF grant based on reviewer feedback; 3) develop a new quantitative paper on local dimensions of immigrant integration in the West, drawing on the findings of the Journal of International Migration and Integration paper published this year.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
For this reporting period, I have three accomplishments to report: 1) I published an article (with PhD student Claudia Mendez Wright and MS student Emma Earl) on community attachment among male and female Latin American immigrants in Cache county; 2) I submitted an NSF grant proposal to conduct mixed methods research on Latin American and Filipino immigrants, comparing integration in two western destination cities (Salt Lake City and Phoenix) with two non-western cities (Columbus and Charlotte); 3) I developed a proposal to the new Wasatch Front Research Data Center at the University of Utah to access restricted, geocoded census data in order to improve my paper on geographic variation in the consequences of immigration.
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Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18
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Target Audience:The target audiences addressed in this reporting period: sociologists and demographers interested in migration to new U.S. destinations; and graduate students at USU interested in learning new research methods. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The PI provided training to two PhD students: Guizhen Ma (spatial analysis) and Claudia Wright (conducting and analyzing interviews). Training was also provided to one MS student (Emma Earl) in interview coding and analysis. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?I have published two academic articles in this reporting period (in the Social Science Journal and in Population & Environment). In addition, I presented my paper on local-level predictors of migration in the West as a poster at the annual conference of the Population Association of America. I also submitted that paper to an academic journal (Population, Space & Place) but it was not accepted. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?For the next reporting period, I have four objectives: 1) Revise my paper on local-level predictors of migration and submit it to another journal (probably International Migration); 2) Complete and submit a journal article based on the pilot interviews conducted with immigrants in Cache county (probably to Gender & Society); 3) submit a grant proposal, either to the Russell Sage Foundation (if I receive a positive response to my letter of inquiry) or to the National Science Foundation, to do qualitative research on the nexus of ethnicity, gender, and region in U.S. immigration; 4) develop a new quantitative paper on local dimensions of immigrant integration in the West, drawing on the findings of the qualitative research conducted in 2018.
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What was accomplished under these goals?
For this reporting period, I have four accomplishments to report: 1) I published two articles (with PhD student Guizhen Ma) on the environmental consequences of immigration; 2) I completed and submitted to an academic journal an article on local-level predictors of immigration in the West compared to other U.S. regions; 3) With support from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, I completed a qualitative pilot study (with graduate student Claudia Wright) on male and female Latin American immigrants in Cache county; 4) I submitted a letter of Inquiry to the Russell Sage Foundation, proposing a project that would allow me to conduct interviews that would compare the experiences of Latin American and Filipino immigrants in a Western city with high levels of female immigration compared to a Midwestern city with high levels of male immigration.
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Progress 10/01/16 to 09/30/17
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Target Audience:The target audiences addressed in this reporting period: sociologists and demographers interested in migration to new U.S. destinations; and graduate students at USU interested in learning new research methods. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The PI provided training to one PhD student (Guizhen Ma) in spatial analysis, and to one undergraduate student (Emily Young) in literature review methods and using Census data. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?I have two articles under review at academic journals and presented a poster on one of those articles, on environmental consequences of immigration, at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. I have submitted a paper on environmental consequences of migration (with Guizhen Ma) to the 2018 conference of the Pacific Sociological Association (which was accepted for presentation), and a paper on predictors of migration to the 2018 conference of the Population Association of America (which is still under review) What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?For the next reporting period, I have three objectives: 1) Finish writing my analysis of predictors of migration and submit to a journal; 2) Identify potential consequences of migration that can be measured and tested, and develop testable hypotheses; 3) Identify and test potential instrumental variables for analysis of consequences of migration
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What was accomplished under these goals?
For this reporting period, I have three accomplishments to report: 1) I completed and submitted to academic journals two articles on environmental consequences of immigration (with Guizhen Ma); 2) I completed a literature review on the consequences of immigration; 3) I completed an analysis of the local-level predictors of migration in the U.S. West (with undergraduate student Emily Young) and am currently writing up the results to submit to a journal.
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Progress 07/01/16 to 09/30/16
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Target Audience:Target Audience The target audiences addressed in this reporting period: sociologists and demographers interested in migration to new U.S. destinations; and graduate students at USU interested in learning new research methods. Changes/Problems:Changes/Problems None to report so far. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Opportunities The PI provided training to one PhD student (Guizhen Ma) in spatial analysis and literature review methods. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Dissemination I have applied to present results of one article related to this project at the 2017 Population Association of American conference. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Plan of Work For the next reporting period, I have 3 objectives: 1) To complete and submit a journal article on environmental consequences of immigration (with Guizhen Ma); 2) To complete a literature review on the consequences of immigration; 3) To complete an ongoing analysis of the local-level predictors of migration in the U.S. West.
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What was accomplished under these goals?
Accomplishments In this reporting period, I have two accomplishments to report. 1)With PhD student Guizhen Ma, I have begun working on a paper on the environmental consequences of immigration. We created a county-level database of air quality, using data from the US EPA. We submitted our preliminary findings for consideration for the 2017 conference of the Population Association of America, and plan to submit a journal article based on final results in Spring 2018. 2) Also with Ms. Ma, I have begun compiling literature for a database of research on consequences of immigration.
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