The Intergenerational Assimilation and Integration of Filipino Immigrants

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Abstract: When children of immigrants grow up in the United States, many have to navigate between a cultural background from their parents’ country of origin and the environment they are currently living in. This dissonance can be resolved through assimilation. This paper asks the following research questions: how much and to which cultural groups do immigrants, their children, and their grandchildren assimilate? How does one generation’s path of assimilation influence their integration of the next generation? How does assimilation relate to integration? Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, I conduct exploratory research on first-, second-, and third-generation Filipino immigrants. I employ questions from the IPL-12 to capture a quantitative measure of integration and assimilation. The results show there is positive intergenerational integration and assimilation to various identities and diverse social groups among Filipino immigrants, even when the first-generation lives in and socializes with coethnic communities. However, findings show a weak negative correlation between assimilation and integration, which suggests that assimilation can actually deter success in one’s host country. Lastly, interviews highlight that political events and crises lead to a disconnect to an American identity but a latent identification with a Filipino identity, underscoring the idea that assimilation is never truly complete.

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Date created	June 2, 2021

Author	Braganza, Leila Gallardo
Primary advisor	Laitin, David
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Political Science Research Honors Program

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/pg993mg1751

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Preferred Citation: Braganza, Leila Gallardo. (2021). The Intergenerational Assimilation and Integration of Filipino Immigrants. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/pg993mg1751

Stanford University, Department of Political Science, Undergraduate Thesis Collection

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