By Virginia Parks
Drawing totally on information from the l. a. sector, Parks (geography, U. of Chicago) analyzes the spatial features of immigrant hard work markets in gentle of gendered adjustments, ethnic networks, residential context, and the site of immigrant neighborhoods in terms of the positioning of immigrant employment. A important query to the examine is whether or not spatial accessibility issues for immigrant employment on the intraurban scale, or even if ethnic networks (social accessibility) override intraurban geographic constraints on task seek and commuting. The textual content additionally examines the influence of spatial task accessibility on immigrant women's judgements to go into the exertions marketplace, and even if position issues extra for people with childrens and more advantageous ties to domestic.
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In their study of Chinese and Cuban enclave participants and non-participants (measured by residence in and out of San Francisco and Miami respectively), Sanders and Nee find that enclave employees were at a significant labor market disadvantage compared to those who lived outside the enclave. The Sanders and Nee paper initiated a heated methodological debate. Jensen and Portes (1992) criticized Sanders and Nee for using place of residence data as a proxy for place of work. The primary problem facing researchers has been a lack of available data that can be used to test Portes’s results from his longitudinal study of Cubans in Miami, such as data on place of work and ethnicity of owner.
Women’s networks contain more friends and family members while men’s more diverse networks contain more coworkers (Marsden 1987; Moore 1990). Such findings raise critical questions about the gendered effect of residential segregation on job search and employment outcomes. Residential segregation may matter more for women than for men in terms of finding employment and the quality of that employment. The quality of local job opportunities may affect the quality of women’s employment to a greater extent than for men, as well as point to the need for locally directed employment initiatives targeted at women.
The Shape of Immigrant Local Labor Market 27 Emerging Questions Concerning the Immigrant Local Labor Market The location of immigrant neighborhoods in relation to immigrant employment opportunities remains a question to which we have an unsatisfactory empirical response. g. Zhou 1992) seems to indicate strong patterns of ethnic jobs clustering near ethnic neighborhoods, quantitative work on the enclave either defines the enclave as a metropolitan area (Borjas 2000; Logan, Alba, and Stults 2003; Zhou 1992), focuses on place of work (at a large geographic scale) independent of place of residence (Portes and Jensen 1989), or focuses only on place of residence (Sanders and Nee 1987).