“Immigrants Are Still Fitting In” by Miriam Jordan in The Wall Street Journal discusses current assimilation. It states that “The U.S. today is home to 40 million foreign-born residents, the most ever, a number that includes people here illegally and those with legal status, who hold a green card or are citizens”. It was discovered that most Latin American and Asian immigrants made significant progress in economic and social assimilation up until the current recession, and were just a little set back, even by that. For comparison, in the year 2000, 24% of immigrants became homeowners within 20 years of arrival to the U.S. whereas it is expected that 72% will own homes by 2030.
We discussed earlier on in the class about immigrant assimilation and distinguishing it from arrival cohort quality. Although it currently shows that immigrants are assimilating very well currently, we may be looking back on this generation of immigrants in the future (as we did for the early-mid 1900s) and determining that there was a specific cohort which inflated the numbers.
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