Month: July 2020

Daeshin Hayden Ju, Karen Okigbo, Sejung Sage Yim, and Jessica Halliday Hardie – Ethnic and generational differences in partnership patterns among Asians in the United States

Daeshin Hayden Ju, Karen Okigbo, Sejung Sage Yim, and Jessica Halliday Hardie (Faculty) 

Co-published an article titled “Ethnic and generational differences in partnership patterns among Asians in the United States” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (online: June 2020)

Despite extensive research on the changes in partnership formation patterns in the United States over the past few decades, we know relatively little about how Asians are approaching marriage and cohabitation in early adulthood. Using the 2014–2018 American Community Survey, we examine whether Asians are delaying marriage and whether their postponement of marriage is offset by a rise in cohabitation. When doing so, we pay close attention to variations by ethnicity and immigrant generational status. We find that there is a substantial generational decline in marriage among Asians, accompanied by a relatively small increase in cohabitation. Thus, it is likely that 1.5-generation and U.S.-born Asians are waiting longer to enter coresidential partnerships than Asians who immigrated to the U.S. after age 12 and U.S.-born whites. Also, there are ethnic variations: cohabitation is rare among Indians whereas it is more common for Japanese and Filipino/as. The distinct patterns of 1.5-generation and U.S.-born Asians suggest that they are selectively acculturating. Overall, our findings demonstrate that Asians should not be treated as a monolithic group when studying their demographic and social patterns.

Awards and Honors in July 2020

 Rob Smith (Faculty) 

Prof. Smith received the 2020 Award for Public Sociology in International Migration from the ASA International Migration Section.

His research was also instrumental in winning two major victories.  The Wells Fargo lawsuit used his current DACA research and was settled in favor of the plaintiffs for 20 million!  https://www.outtengolden.com/news/landmark-settlement-reached-lending-discrimination-class-action-cases-brought-by-daca  In addition, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold DACA is the other lawsuit he was working on last year. Over 650,000 kids get to stay!

Read Prof. Smith’s recent interview with the GC: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=55196

Anna Zhelnina 

Anna’s paper titled “The Apathy Syndrome: How we are trained not to care about politics” won the 2020 Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award of the ASA Collective Behaviors & Social Movements Section.

Jane McAlevey (‘2015)

Jane was profiled in The New Yorker with a heady title: “Jane McAlevey’s Vision of the Future of American Labor.” It touts her newest book and refers to her as coach and chronicler of the labor union movement. https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/jane-mcaleveys-vision-for-the-future-of-american-labor

Click https://gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=55163 to learn more about Jane’s work.