Socio-cultural examination of immigrant youth victimization

• In Event: Victimization Risk and Attitudes towards Victims: The Influence of Culture, Immigration and Social Networks

Abstract

This study is particularly interested in the micro-level analysis of the relationship between the immigrant assimilation experiences and the likelihood of victimization within the school context.
The objective is to provide a fuller characterization of the immigrant lived experience in the United States and how they independently shape victimization experiences, if at all. A number of facets of these experiences will be examined, such as English proficiency, feelings of discrimination, school bullying, peer interaction, employment and education. The study seeks to contribute to the literature on immigrant youth victimization by departing from the traditional theoretical framework of examining the immigrant victimization experiences such as routine activities theories and social control theory and instead rely on the ‘segmented assimilation’ theory framework.

The study will utilize the individual-level data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) from the archive of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICSPR) at the University of Michigan. The CILS dataset captures the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation living in the United States and includes three waves of survey data from 1991 to 2006.

Author

• Carlene Barnaby, Rutgers University