Title:	Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States
Authors:	Garcia, Ginny
Keywords:	Mexican American
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	It is certainly well-known that racial and ethnic groups tend to be at a disadvantage socially, economically and in terms of overall well-being in the United States. It is the intent of this book to underscore the extent of this disadvantage (by focusing on the extent of poverty) with special emphasis on Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the Southwestern United States. This goal is accomplished by analyzing the poverty of these groups through the use of logistic regression at four levels: extreme poverty, 100% poverty (also known as the poverty threshold), low income status (200% of the poverty line), and relative poverty (measured as 50% or less of the state median income). A separate discussion is also included which addresses the utility and necessity of a relative measure of poverty in the United States. Additionally, the analyses include the development of a proxy variable for undocumented status. This variable is based on previous research by (Bean et al., 1984) and is an updated extension of their work. The poverty of these groups is also addressed via measures of multiple variables at the contextual level
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20075
ISBN:	978-94-007-0539-5
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