Immigrants' Welfare Use and Opportunity for Contact with Co-Ethnics

The Welfare Use of Immigrants and Natives in Germany: The Case of Turkish Immigrants

This paper analyzes the welfare use of Turkish immigrants and natives in Germany. After a brief description of the system of minimum income protection and its recent reform we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to investigate the correlates of transfer receipt for the two subsamples. Immigrants of Turkish origin have a higher propensity to use welfare benefits than natives. Aft...

Neighborhood Opportunity Structures and Immigrants’ Socioeconomic Advancement

This article explores immigrants’ socioeconomic success consequential to their choice of neighborhood. We describe and analyze seven aspects of socioeconomic success during the 1980s for 14 immigrant groups in five metropolitan areas. Exposure indices measuring aspects of the census tracts in which these groups lived in 1980 are calculated and analyzed. Multiple regression explores the degree t...

Immigrants and Medicaid after welfare reform.

More than 30 million residents of the United States— about 11% of the population—were born in other countries, according to recent estimates from The Urban Institute. Two-thirds of these immigrants are noncitizens, who are more likely than citizens to be poor, even if they work full-time. Although approximately 28% of immigrants are undocumented, either because they entered the country illegall...

Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK

Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004. The analysis focuses in particular on the types of benef...

Mental health need and service use among Latino children of immigrants in the child welfare system