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Direct linkAlba, Richard; Kasinitz, Philip; Waters, Mary C. – Social Forces, 2011
This paper presents the authors' comments on "Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation" by William Haller, Alejandro Portes and Scott M. Lynch. The overall well-being and integration of second-generation immigrant youth constitute an important topic for researchers and policy makers, one…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Acculturation, Parent Child Relationship, Generational Differences
Haller, William; Portes, Alejandro; Lynch, Scott M. – Social Forces, 2011
We summarize prior theories on the adaptation process of the contemporary immigrant second generation as a prelude to presenting additive and interactive models showing the impact of family variables, school contexts and academic outcomes on the process. For this purpose, we regress indicators of educational and occupational achievement in early…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Acculturation, Parent Child Relationship, Longitudinal Studies
Brown, Susan K. – Social Forces, 2006
Classical assimilation theory postulates that over time, members of immigrant groups will develop more primary ties with native members of the host society. However, lack of data has led most research to rely on the study of either spatial mobility or other secondary variables as proxies of primary ties. Using data from the Multi-City Study of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Theories, Ethnicity, Immigrants
Kogan, Irena – Social Forces, 2006
The questions asked in the paper are whether and to what extent the employment situation among recent third-country immigrants differs across European Union countries and how it is related to these countries' labor market characteristics. The European Labor Force Survey data for the 1990s are used to disentangle the roles that the individual…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Labor Force
Peer reviewedWhite, Michael J.; And Others – Social Forces, 1993
Analysis of a public use microdata sample file from the 1980 census indicates that residential assimilation of Asian Americans was positively related to educational attainment and, to a lesser extent, to income. Although being foreign-born, nonnaturalized, or a recent immigrant were negatively related to residential assimilation, these traits were…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Educational Attainment, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedZhou, Min; Logan, John R. – Social Forces, 1991
The tendency for New York area Chinese to live outside Chinatown is related to socioeconomic status, educational attainment, marriage, and fertility. But unique characteristics of the enclave economy, immigrants' kinship ties to the ethnic community, and ethnic segmentation of housing markets also structure residential patterns. Contains 30…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Chinese Americans, Educational Attainment, Immigrants
