International Migration Review

Focusing on the Italian language press in Argentina and Brazil, this article explores the role of the foreign language press in the immigrant process of acculturation. Specifically, the author evaluates La Patria degli Italiani of Buenos Aires and Fanfulla of São Paulo. These two papers, in their respective communities, retained the largest circulation and were generally acknowledged to be the most influential. The author probes the Italian communities in each country, examines the functions of the newspapers and estimates their respective influence.

Standard theory on British immigration to Australia has assumed that British immigrants are an extension of the Anglo-Saxon core culture since Australian society has the same language and ancestral origins, the political institutions are similar and the societies have similar sports and folkways. This analysis tests this proposition through an examination of the extent to which British mobility, urbanization, residential segregation and housing patterns resemble those of the Australian born and to what extent the British have become a third culture between the Australian born and other foreign born.

The nature and extent of outgroup marriage among Mexican Americans in California during the 1962–1974 period is analyzed here through marriage records coded to indicate the Spanish surname status of the bride and groom. A high level of outmarriage was found, on the order of one-third to two-fifths of those marrying. Differentials in outmarriage proportions by age and sex were examined and tended to be relatively small. More substantial differentials were found with regard to marriage order, where higher order marriages of Spanish surnamed persons were more likely than first marriages to involve a non-Spanish surnamed partner. The largest differentials were generational, with Spanish surnamed persons not born in Mexico much more likely to outmarry than were those born in Mexico.

The effect of migration on fertility in a less developed nation is studied in this analysis by a comparison of three groups of women: 1) rural sedentary; 2) rural to rural migrants; and 3) rural to urban migrants. Age specific fertility rates and child-woman ratios reveal a declining gradient of fertility with social distance from the rural home community.

Despite the restrictions which political boundaries may place upon movement, daily international transfers of labor have increased substantially in Western Europe since the early 1960s. The phenomenon is particularly intense in the French border region of Alsace from which, in 1976, over 27,000 frontaliers moved to work in either Western Germany or Switzerland. Workers are generally young and possess only limited qualifications; they appear strongly motivated by the high relative value of a German or Swiss salary, but are also influenced by factors such as job availability and working conditions. These movements pose various problems for economic development in Alsace.