Overview
- Provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty (both relative and absolute) among one of the fastest growing populations in US
- Offers discussion of recent patterns among Mexican Americans and Immigrants
- Utilizes multiple forms of analysis including logistic regression and multilevel models to assess the most significant predictors of poverty status
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 28)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Analysis of poverty
- Determination of poverty
- Ethnic minorities
- Ethnicity
- Examination of poverty
- Growing poverty dilemma
- Hispanics
- Immigrant destination states
- Immigrant poverty
- Immigrant receivers
- Logistic regressions
- Measure of poverty
- Mexican
- Mexican American
- Multiple statistical techniques
- Patterns of movement
- Policy change
- Predictors
- Proxy Measure
- Race/ethnicity
- Social Sciences
- Undocumented status
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States
Authors: Ginny Garcia
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0539-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0538-8Published: 27 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3511-8Published: 25 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0539-5Published: 27 January 2011
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 206
Topics: Migration, Demography, Quality of Life Research, Sociology, general