Jiménez Tomás R
Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0533, USA.
AJS. 2008 May;113(6):1527-67. doi: 10.1086/587151.
The literature on assimilation and ethnic identity formation largely assumes that the durability of ethnic boundaries is a function of the assimilation measures that sociologists commonly employ. But this literature fails to account adequately for the role of immigration patterns in explaining the durability and nature of ethnic boundaries. Using 123 in-depth interviews with later-generation Mexican Americans, this article shows that Mexican immigrant replenishment shapes ethnic boundaries and ethnic identity formation. The sizable immigrant population sharpens intergroup boundaries through the indirect effects of nativism and by contributing to the continuing significance of race in the lives of later-generation Mexican Americans. The presence of a large immigrant population also creates intragroup boundaries that run through the Mexican-origin population and that are animated by expectations about ethnic authenticity. The article illustrates the importance of immigrant replenishment to processes of assimilation and ethnic identity formation.
关于同化和族群认同形成的文献大多认为，族群边界的持久性是社会学家常用的同化措施的一个函数。但该文献未能充分说明移民模式在解释族群边界的持久性和性质方面所起的作用。通过对123名墨西哥裔美国人后代进行深入访谈，本文表明墨西哥移民补充塑造了族群边界和族群认同形成。大量的移民人口通过本土主义的间接影响以及促成种族在墨西哥裔美国人后代生活中的持续重要性，加剧了群体间的边界。大量移民人口的存在还造成了贯穿墨西哥裔人口的群体内部边界，这些边界因对族群本真性的期望而活跃起来。本文阐述了移民补充对同化和族群认同形成过程的重要性。
