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racial-ethnic group
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people who share a common identity and whose members think of themselves as distinct from others by virtue of ancestry, culture, and sometimes physical characteristics
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hispanic
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a person living in the US who traces his or her ancestry to Latin America
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Asian american
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a person living in the US who comes from or is descended from people who came from an Asian country
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non-hispanic white
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people who identify their race as white but do not think of themselves as hispanic
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union formation
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the process of beginning to live with a partner either through cohabitation or marriage
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mediating structures
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mid-level social insitutions and groupings, such as the church, the nieghborhood, the civil organization, and the family
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total fertility rate (TFR)
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the avg number of children a woman will bear over her lifetime if current birthrates remain the same
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labor force
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all people who are either working outside the home or looking for work
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transnational families
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families that maintain continual contact between members in the sending and receiving countries
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consensual union
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a cohabiting relationship in which a couple consider themselves to be married but have never had a religious or civil marriage ceremony
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assimilation
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the process by which immigrant groups merge their culture and their behavior with that of the dominant group in the host country
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immigrant enclave
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a large, dense, single-ethnic group, almost self-sufficient community
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social capital
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the resources that a person can access through his or her relationships with other people
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