Titre :
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Immigration, intermarriage, and the challenges of measuring racial/ethnic identities. (2000)
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Auteurs :
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Mary-C WATERS ;
Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census. Symposium.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of public health (vol. 90, n° 11, 2000)
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Pagination :
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1735-1737
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Etats Unis
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Amérique
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Epidémiologie
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Homme
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Etat santé
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Ethnie
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Race
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Evaluation
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Immigration
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Mariage
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST Rj2R0xgY. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This commentary reviews recent demographic trends in immigration and internatriage that contribute to the complexity of measuring race and ethnicity. The census question on ancestry is proposed as a possible model for what we might expeet with the race question in the 2000 census and beyond. Through the use of anccary data, changes in ethnic identification by individuals over the course of their lives, by generation, and according to ceasus question directions are documented. It is pointed out that the once-rigid lines that divided European-origin groups from one another have increasingly blurred. All of these changes are posited as becoming more likely for groups we now define as "racial." While it is acknowledged that race and ethnicity will beconie increasingly difficult to measure as moltiple racial identities become more common and more likely to be reported, it is argued that monitoring discrimination is crucial for the continued collection of such data.
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