Teresa Labov

Gender Differentials in Intermarriage Among Sixteen Race and Ethnic Groups

This paper examines gender differences in out-marriage rates in the United States among 16 race and ethnic groups. Among most groups of Asian Americans, females are more likely to marry whites than are their male counterparts, the reverse of the pattern among African Americans discussed by Merton (1941). We find some Hispanic-American groups in both camps. We explore whether the greater contact between white U.S. military personnel in Asian countries explains the pattern of Asian white marriages. We also introduce a new statistical approach that facilitates comparisons across multiple race and ethnic groups. Data from the 1% sample of the 1990 Census are analyzed in this study.

Learning the Syntax of Questions

This paper is a first report on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of a syntactic rule: the inversion of WH-questions.1 The general aim of this presentation is to show how certain modifications in the theory and practice of linguistics can contribute to the study of acquisition, and to the psychology of language generally. These new developments spring from an approach to linguistic analysis that is based on the observation of speech in every-day contexts, and experiments carried out in every-day situations. In this approach, introspection may be taken as a handy guide to the issues, but not as evidence for the developing theory.

Entorno clínico de la enfermera hospitalaria

La imagen global de la salud se esta uniformando cada vez mas: los servicios de hospitalizacion representan practicamente la mayor proporcion del gasto sanitario en cada uno de los 29 paises industrializados analizados por la Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Anderson et al, 2000). A pesar de las diferencias nacionales en cuanto a la organizacion y financiacion de la atencion sanitaria, el deseo de reducir el gasto total de la atencion sanitaria es un objetivo mundial y los hospitales recurren a estrategias similares para contener la escalada de costes. Como resultado de ello, se esta llevando a cabo una reforma hospitalaria amplia en la cual la reestructuracion hospitalaria y la redistribucion de las plantillas de personal en el ambito intrahospitalario se estan convirtiendo en un fenomeno comun (Sochalski et al, 1997).

NGOs, HIV/AIDS control and reproductive health in East Africa

Catalogues how Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are meeting, individually, the AIDS epidemic with governmental and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs). Uses data from the United Nations and World Bank. Gives background of NGOs in East Africa and their field work. Concludes that the social dimensions of each country are very restrictive in slightly differing ways, with the various religious beliefs also having an effect which is deleterious in nature. States that, even so, there are more similarities than there are differences in the three countries.

Book Review: The Absentee American: Repatriates’ Perspectives on America and its Place in the Contemporary WorldThe Absentee American: Repatriates’ Perspectives on America and its Place in the Contemporary World. By SmithCarolyn D.New York:Praeger.1991. Pp. 129.

USSR-and will remain in the United Statesa religious minority; the Vietnamese only became a racial minority once in the receiving country. SovietJews have been resettled by an established Jewish communal infrastructure; the Vietnamese were initially resettled by voluntary agencies and only developed their own mutual assistance associations (MAAs) in the past decade. Refugee Communities, based on field research conducted in both communities during the late 19705 and early 19805, is the first study that not only compares the resettlement of two seemingly disparate groups, but does so from an interdisciplinary perspective. Gold locates the SovietJewish and Vietnamese experiences in the literature on refugee adaptation, details both premigration backgrounds, and discusses the complex relationship among state actors, resettlement agencies and refugee communities, including patterns of refugee self-organization and adaptation. In keeping with American obsessions, Golds concern is primarily with self-help. He points out that Soviet Jewish refugees have been far less successful than the Vietnamese in forming formal organizations on their own. Lack of religious training and a high level of assimilation to Russian society hindered the creation of ethnic self-help bodies that were common among early non-Soviet Jewish immigrant communities. Moreover, resettlement by longestablished, well-funded, and highly centralized and integrated agencies provided little initiative for them to establish MAAs similar to those in which the Vietnamese rebuilt their self-esteem and sense of community. The major goals of refugee resettlement have been economic self-sufficiency and cultural adjustment. Both Jewish and Vietnamese resettlement organizations have implemented acculturation programs that have helped develop ethnic identity and affiliation among their clients. However, most emigres are more interested in achieving economic stability and ensuring careers for their children, a task made more difficult with economic restructuring, high rates of unemployment, and scarcity of good entry level jobs in the United States. Yet self-sufficiency rates are higher for Soviet emigres than Vietnamese, two thirds of whom live below the poverty level. Gold ably demonstrates that the particular problems ofone refugee group are larger concerns of public policy and migration theory and concomitantly understands that individual refugees are persons who not only encounter the stress of relocation, but also have it compounded by larger social and political debates. By combining the concerns of both academicians and practitioners, Refugee Communities transcends parochial concerns. It should be required reading for anyone engaged in the theory or practice of refugee resettlement.