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UNVEILING THE PICTURE OF THE NEW NEIGHBORS: INTEGRATION ISSUES FOR LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN HAMILTON, OHIO

DE FREITAS, CAMILA LIZIÊ
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116007774

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2005, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Community Planning.
The title of the thesis “Unveiling the Picture of the New Neighbors: Integration Issues for Latino Immigrants in Hamilton, Ohio” encapsulates its essence. It is a search for understanding the characteristics and impacts of the so-called “new wave” of Latino immigrants in the United States. The change from the new wave to the new neighbors is an attempt to analyze the new patterns of Latino immigration at the local level. This study analyzes how the city of Hamilton, Ohio, has been coping with the large and rapid increase of Latino immigrants and how Latinos are adapting to the city based on the level of accessibility of basic services provided by governmental institutions, banks, health services, schools and faith-based institutions and their role in integrating immigrants. The contact zone theory was chosen among other theories to test the hypothesis that the level of integration can be measure by the accessibility of the city’s public services based on language barrier. The use immigrants make of social services and the interaction with “outsiders” thus become the major indicators of the extent of the integration of the Latino population in U.S. society. Contact Zone departs radically from other theories such as Assimilation theory. Model of assimilation which assumes that ethnic groups were first culturally incorporated, they adopted American mores and only then were “structurally incorporated” into the mainstream of American economic and political life. The census was utilized as a base for the demographic data, to supplement and verify the data from the census, qualitative data sources were utilized. These data consist of 13 community leader interviews and two focus groups. Analyzed through the contact zone theory, the thesis shows that the Latino population in Hamilton has not been integrated into the local society. In 2004, some institutions have made a stronger effort to reach the Latino community, but Latinos in Hamilton are not directly using the local social services and are instead becoming more dependent on other mechanisms to adapt to the new place and the new way of life, mainly due to the language barrier.
Dr. Johanna Looye (Advisor)
98 p.
Integration; Immigrants; Latinos

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  • DE FREITAS, C. L. (2005). UNVEILING THE PICTURE OF THE NEW NEIGHBORS: INTEGRATION ISSUES FOR LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN HAMILTON, OHIO [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116007774

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DE FREITAS, CAMILA. UNVEILING THE PICTURE OF THE NEW NEIGHBORS: INTEGRATION ISSUES FOR LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN HAMILTON, OHIO. 2005. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116007774.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DE FREITAS, CAMILA. "UNVEILING THE PICTURE OF THE NEW NEIGHBORS: INTEGRATION ISSUES FOR LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN HAMILTON, OHIO." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116007774

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