The next generation : immigrant youth in a comparative perspective

The next generation : immigrant youth in a comparative perspective / edited by Richard Alba and Mary C. Waters.

One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore...

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Other Authors: Alba, Richard D. (Editor), Waters, Mary C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University, [2011]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Children of immigrants > Social conditions > Cross-cultural studies.
Children of immigrants > Economic conditions > Cross-cultural studies.
Children of immigrants > Education > Cross-cultural studies.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Group identity > Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Children of immigrants > Economic conditions
Children of immigrants > Education
Children of immigrants > Social conditions
Group identity
Cross-cultural studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Dimensions of second-generation incorporation : an introduction to the volume / Richard Alba and Mary C. Waters
  • Legalization and naturalization trajectories among Mexican immigrants and their implications for the second generation / Susan K. Brown [and others]
  • Early childhood education programs : accounting for low enrollment in immigrant and minority families / Donald J. Hernandez, Nancy A. Denton, and Suzanne Macartney
  • The Mexican-American 2nd generation in census 2000 : education and earnings / Joel Perlmann
  • Downward assimilation and Mexican Americans : an examination of intergenerational advance and stagnation in educational attainment / Richard Alba [and others]
  • School qualifications of children of immigrant descent in Switzerland / Rosita Fibbi, Mathias Lerch, Philippe Wanner
  • Ethnic community, urban economy and second-generation attainment : Turkish disadvantage in Belgium / Karen Phalet and Anthony Heath
  • The second generation in the German labor market : explaining the Turkish exception / Frank Kalter
  • Capitals, ethnic identity and educational qualifications / Tariq Modood
  • National and urban contexts for the integration of the immigrant second generation in the United States and Canada / Jeffrey G. Reitz and Ye Zhang
  • "I will never deliver Chinese food" : the children of immigrants in the New York metropolitan labor force / Philip Kasinitz, Noriko Matsumoto and Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida
  • Black identities and the second generation : Afro-Caribbeans in Britain and the United States / Nancy Foner
  • How do educational systems integrate? Integration of second-generation Turks in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Austria / Maurice Crul
  • The employment of second generations in France : the republican model and the November 2005 riots / Roxane Silberman.

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