Ethnicity

Ethnicity Reconstruction:

Research in the field of ethnic politics is especially important in the context of Latin America, a region that continues to struggle with the incorporation and increasing participation of ethnic minorities, particularly Indigenous peoples, in the regional and national political arenas. Unfortunately, the correct approach to ethnicity research remains an unresolved contention between the Primor...

Replenished Ethnicity

How does the presence of a large Mexican immigrant population influence the ways later-generation Mexican Americans assert and exercise their ethnic identity? More broadly, how do Mexicans as a group fit into the U.S. ethnoracial mosaic? This theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous book graciously navigates the ideological debates about Mexican assimilation and provides new insights o...

Name-Ethnicity Classification and Ethnicity-Sensitive Name Matching

Personal names are important and common information in many data sources, ranging from social networks and news articles to patient records and scientific documents. They are often used as queries for retrieving records and also as key information for linking documents from multiple sources. Matching personal names can be challenging due to variations in spelling and various formatting of names...

Poverty, ethnicity and place

Ethnicity and Psychiatric Disorders.

Psychiatric disorders are one of the leading causes of disease-related disability in the world today. However, little is known about the ethnic variation of these disorders within populations. This is especially true in contexts outside of the United States and the European Diaspora. This study provides new evidence from South Asia on ethnic differences in Major Depressive Episode, Major Depres...