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Alejandro Portes
Researcher at University of Miami
Publications - 329
Citations - 68103
Alejandro Portes is an academic researcher from University of Miami. The author has contributed to research in topics: Immigration & Population. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 326 publications receiving 65573 citations. Previous affiliations of Alejandro Portes include Princeton University & Levy Economics Institute.
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Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology
TL;DR: Social capital has a definite place in sociological theory as mentioned in this paper, and its role in social control, in family support, and in benefits mediated by extra-familial networks, but excessive extensions of the concept may lead to excessive emphasis on positive consequences of sociability.
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The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants
Alejandro Portes,Min Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: This article introduced the concept of segmented assimilation to describe the diverse possible outcomes of this process of adaptation and used modes of incorporation for developing a typology of vulnerability and resources affecting such outcomes.
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Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation
TL;DR: Yang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a longitudinal study of children of immigrants in San Diego and found that early adaptation and achievement was a predictor of educational achievement in the second generation.
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Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action1
TL;DR: The concept of social embeddings has also been used in economic sociology as mentioned in this paper, where the authors explore the different forms in which social structures affect economic action and their consequences, positive and negative, highlighted.
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The study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
TL;DR: Transnationalism as mentioned in this paper defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field.