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Social & Cultural Mobility of Israeli Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000

Social & Cultural Mobility of Israeli Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000. Uzi Rebhun The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The 3 rd International Population Geographies Conference Population Geography Research Group Royal Geographical Society Liverpool, June 19-21, 2006.

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Social & Cultural Mobility of Israeli Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000

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  1. Social & Cultural Mobility of Israeli Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000 Uzi Rebhun The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The 3rdInternational Population Geographies Conference Population Geography Research Group Royal Geographical Society Liverpool, June 19-21, 2006

  2. General Purpose of Study To trace social and cultural mobility of Israeli Jewish immigrants in the U.S. through three complementary indicators: language proficiency, citizenship, and educational attainment; and further to examine the extent to which they maintain contacts and attachment to their country of origin

  3. Previous Research • On the average, Israeli Americans are socio-economically more successful than both population at origin and destination. • This high socio-economic profile does not pertain to all Israelis in the U.S. Rather, in comparison to immigrants of European provenance, Israelis are more likely to be at either end of the occupational and income distribution. • Socio-economic achievements as well as language fluency are strongly associated with young age at immigration and tenure in the new country

  4. Empirical Basis • Data were culled from the IPUMS of the 1980, 1990 and 2000 U.S. Censuses. • Complementary data derive from the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey (conducted by RoperASW).

  5. Figure 1. Algorithm for Identifying Israeli-Jews in the U.S. Census, 1980-2000 A. Israeli-born Language Spoken at Home Hebrew/ Other than Hebrew/Yiddish/ Yiddish Arabic/Armenian Ancestry Other than Arab/Palestinian/Armenian

  6. Figure 1. Cont. B. Foreign-born Language Spoken at Home Hebrew Other than Hebrew Ancestry Israeli Adopted from: Cohen and Haberfeld, 1997.

  7. Figure 4. Fluent English Speech (Very Well/Only English) among Israeli-Jewish Immigrants in the U.S.: A Cohort Follow-Up, 1980-2000 (Percentage)

  8. Figure 5. U.S. Citizenship among Israeli-Jewish Immigrants in the U.S.: ACohort Follow-Up, 1980-2000 (Percentage)

  9. Figure 6. Mean Schooling Level of Israeli-Jewish Immigrants in the U.S.: A Cohort Follow-Up, 1980-2000 (Percentage)

  10. Figure 7. Linguistic Skills, Citizenship, and Schooling among Israeli-Jews in the U.S.: A Comparison of Three Immigration Waves

  11. Figure 8. Connection to Israel, by Period of Immigration

  12. Conclusions • Descriptive analyses show that Israeli-Jewish immigrants are successfully integrated into the American society. • As time in the U.S. elapses they progressively distance themselves from their country of origin. • The gradual nature of these processes corresponds closely with the Alba and Nee typology of boundary shift, boundary blurring, and boundary crossing. • Advanced stages of this research will apply multivariate techniques to explore the determinants of the social and cultural processes of Israeli Jews in the U.S.

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