| Description |
324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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text file |
| Series |
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
0002-7162 ;
v. 620
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 620.
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| Note |
"November 2008." |
| Form |
Also issued online |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly -- Section 1: Theory and facts. No margin for error: educational and occupational achievement among disadvantaged children of immigrants / Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly ; Success attained, deterred, and denied: divergent pathways to social mobility in Los Angeles's new second generation / Min Zhou, Jennifer Lee, Jody Agius Vallejo, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, and Yang Sao Xiong ; Role of school in the upward mobility of disadvantaged immigrants' children / Lingxin Hao and Suet-Ling Pong ; Disparities in the educational success of immigrants: an assessment of the immigrant effect for Asians and Latinos / Angel L. Harris, Kenneth M. Jamison, and Monica H. Trujillo -- Section 2: Social mechanisms. Back pocket map: social class and cultural capital as transferable assets in the advancement of second-generation immigrants / Patricia Fernández-Kelly ; Ethnic communities and school performance among the new second generation in the United States: testing the theory of segmented assimilation / Clemens Kroneberg ; Fit to miss, but matched to hatch: success factors among the second generation's disadvantaged in South Florida / Lisa Konczal and William Haller ; Educational hopes, documented dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants' legality and educational prospects / Cecilia Menjívar -- Section 3: Places and locations. Coming of the second generation: immigration and ethnic mobility in Southern California / Rubén G. Rumbaut ; "Here's your diploma, Mom!" Family obligation and multiple pathways to success / Tekla Nicholas, Alex Stepick, and Carol Dutton Stepick ; Becoming American, becoming minority, getting ahead: the role of racial and ethnic status in the upward mobility of the children of immigrants / Philip Kasinitz ; Horatio Alger lives in Brooklyn: extrafamily support, intrafamily dynamics, and socially neutral operating identities in exceptional mobility among children of Mexican immigrants / Robert Courtney Smith -- Section 4: Commentaries. Norms, values, and solidarity: a Durkheimian perspective on escaping from the inner city / Steven Elías Alvarado ; No margin for error and its implications for future research / G. Cristina Mora ; We are the people who love us and the stories we tell ourselves / Alejandro Rivas -- Section 5: Book reviews -- Section 6: Quick read synopsis. |
| Subject |
Children of immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Children of immigrants. |
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Children of immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Children of immigrants -- Education -- United States.
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Children of immigrants -- Education. |
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Children of immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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Economic conditions. |
| Added Author |
Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia, 1948-
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Portes, Alejandro, 1944-
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American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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| ISBN |
1412971233 cloth |
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9781412971232 cloth |
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1412971225 paper alkaline paper |
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9781412971225 paper alkaline paper |
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