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Abstract: Immigration to the U.S. has diversified in terms of place of origin, demographic profile and spatial dispersion. As a result, new challenges related to low response rates, sampling efficiency and costs have emerged complicating efforts to provide accurate descriptions of immigrant groups by place of origin.  At the same time, a recurring challenge in investigating the heterogeneous role of networks in migration has been the collection of high-quality data that measure immigrants’ kin and non-kin ties with members of co-ethnic and native communities at destination.  Here we (1) show the feasibility of using a link-tracing sampling design, Network Sampling with Memory (NSM), to efficiently and cost-effectively recruit a representative sample of a rare population of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. South and to elicit their social network ties; (2) test the accuracy of our sampling approach by comparison with the American Community Survey (ACS); (3) demonstrate the benefits of multiple forms of network ties collected as part of this survey for the study of Chinese immigrant incorporation.

The Sociology Seminar Series for Hilary Term is convened by Dave Kirk and Jennifer Dowd.  For more information about this or any of the seminars in the series, please contact sociology.secretary@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.