Journal article
Assessing the Role of Ethnic Enclaves and Neighborhood Conditions in Volunteering Among Latinos in Chicago
Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, Vol.49(3), pp.479-501
06/01/2020
DOI: 10.1177/0899764019889188
Abstract
Neighborhoods may be important for formal volunteering because they vary in the extent to which they have institutions that support participation and problems that motivate participation. According to social heterogeneity and ethnic community theories, we should expect that living in ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods where residents are predominantly of the same ethnic group, would promote formal volunteering. Latino ethnic enclaves may also have more institutions and problems. However, no studies have examined neighborhood effects on formal volunteering among U.S.- and foreign-born Latinos. We investigated neighborhood-level predictors of formal volunteering among Latinos, and Mexican descent residents more specifically, using secondary data from Chicago, a Latino immigrant destination. We tested the effects of ethnic enclaves, neighborhood organizational resources, and neighborhood needs on formal volunteering. We found that Latinos in Chicago were less likely to participate in formal volunteering in ethnic enclaves when controlling for enclaves' greater neighborhood needs, which positively influenced formal volunteering.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessing the Role of Ethnic Enclaves and Neighborhood Conditions in Volunteering Among Latinos in Chicago
- Creators
- Megan E. Gilster - University of IowaCristian L. Meier - Utah State UniversityJaime M. Booth - University of Pittsburgh
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, Vol.49(3), pp.479-501
- Publisher
- Sage
- DOI
- 10.1177/0899764019889188
- ISSN
- 0899-7640
- eISSN
- 1552-7395
- Number of pages
- 23
- Grant note
- P50HD38986; R01HD050467 / National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- School of Social Work; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984283573302771
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