Research Article
Open Access
Revisiting Ethnic Niches: A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Asian and Latino Undocumented Young Adults
Esther Yoona Cho
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences July 2017, 3 (4) 97-115; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.06
Esther Yoona Cho
aPhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley

REFERENCES
- ↵
- ↵
- ↵
- ↵
- Bates, Timothy
- ↵
- Bates, Timothy
- ↵
- ↵
- Borjas, George J
- ↵Borjas, George J. 1990. Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U. S. Economy. New York: Basic Books.
- ↵Carcamo, Cindy. 2013. “Immigrants Lacking Papers Work Legally—as Their Own Bosses.” Los Angeles Times, September 14.
- ↵
- Chan, Beleza
- ↵Coutin, Susan B. 2000. Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- ↵
- De Genova, Nicholas
- ↵
- Dozier, Sandra Bygrave
- ↵
- Elliott, James R
- ↵
- ↵
- Fernandez, Roberto M., and
- Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
- ↵
- Fernández-Kelly, Patricia, and
- Lisa Konczal
- ↵Frauenfelder, Mary. 2016. “Asian-Owned Businesses Nearing Two Million.” Random Samplings [blog], July 27, 2016. Accessed August 23, 2016. http://blogs.census.gov/2016/07/27/asian-owned-businesses-nearing-two-million/.
- ↵
- ↵
- ↵
- Gonzales, Roberto G
- ↵Gonzales, Roberto G. 2015. Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ↵
- Gonzales, Roberto G.,
- Carola Suárez-Orozco, , and
- Maria Cecilia Dedios-Sanguineti
- ↵
- ↵Hoefer, Michael, Nancy Rytina, and Bryan C. Baker. 2011. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2010.” Washington: U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- ↵Kasinitz, Philip, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. 2008. Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- ↵Lee, Jennifer, and Min Zhou. 2015. The Asian American Achievement Paradox. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- ↵Light, Ivan Hubert. 1972. Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ↵Light, Ivan, and Edna Bonacich. 1991. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965–1982. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ↵Light, Ivan Hubert, and Steven J. Gold. 2000. Ethnic Economies. San Diego: Academic Press.
- ↵Massey, Douglas S. 2007. Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- ↵
- ↵Menjívar, Cecilia. 2000. Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ↵
- Menjívar, Cecilia, and
- Leisy Abrego
- ↵Migration Policy Institute. 2014. “Profile of the Unauthorized Population: California.” Accessed July 17, 2015. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-population/state/CA.
- ↵
- Nee, Victor, and
- Hilary Holbrow
- ↵Ngai, Mae. 2004. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
- ↵Nicholls, Walter. 2013. The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
- ↵Patler, Caitlin. 2014. “Racialized Illegality: The Convergence of Race and Legal Status among Black, Latino, and Asian American Undocumented Young Adults.” In Scholars and Southern California Immigrants in Dialogue, edited by Victoria Carty, Tekle Woldemkael, and Rafael Luévano. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Press.
- ↵Perez, William, and Richard Douglas Cortes. 2011. Undocumented Latino College Students: Their Socioemotional and Academic Experiences. Dallas, Tex: LFB Scholarly Publishing.
- ↵
- Portes, Alejandro, and
- Robert L. Bach
- ↵Portes, Alejandro, and Robert L. Bach. 1985. Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ↵
- Reich, Michael,
- David M. Gordon, , and
- Richard C. Edwards
- ↵Rosenblum, Marc R., and Ariel G. Ruiz Soto. 2015. “An Analysis of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States by Country and Region of Birth.” Washington, D.C.: Migration Policy Institute.
- ↵
- Sanders, Jimmy M., and
- Victor Nee
- ↵Small, Mario L. 2009. Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ↵Smith, Sandra Susan. 2010. Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- ↵Waldinger, Roger David. 1996. Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
- ↵Waldinger, Roger David. 2001. Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ↵
- ↵
- ↵
- Zhou, Min, and
- John R. Logan
In this issue
Revisiting Ethnic Niches: A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Asian and Latino Undocumented Young Adults
Esther Yoona Cho
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jul 2017, 3 (4) 97-115; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.06
Jump to section
Related Articles
- No related articles found.
Cited By...
- No citing articles found.