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Bygren, Magnus; Szulkin, Ryszard – Social Forces, 2010
We ask whether ethnic residential segregation influences the future educational careers of children of immigrants in Sweden. We use a dataset comprising a cohort of children who finished compulsory school in 1995 (n = 6,560). We follow these children retrospectively to 1990 to measure neighborhood characteristics during late childhood, and…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Residential Patterns, Educational Attainment, Children
White, Michael J.; Glick, Jennifer E. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2009
Can the recent influx of immigrants successfully enter the mainstream of American life, or will many of them fail to thrive and become part of a permanent underclass? "Achieving Anew" examines immigrant life in school, at work, and in communities and demonstrates that recent immigrants and their children do make substantial progress over time,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Neighborhoods, Ethnicity, Race