Italians Then, Mexicans Now

by Perlmann, Joel

• ISBN13: 9780871546623
• ISBN10: 0871546620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Summary

"In Italians Then, Mexicans Now, Joel Perlmann offers a sustained comparison of immigrant and second-generation wellbeing over the past hundred years. Using the latest immigration data from the census and other recent studies - as well as a century of census data - Perlmann paints a more optimistic picture of immigrant prospects than is envisioned by many other scholars of immigration." "Rich with historical data, Italians Then, Mexicans Now persuasively argues that today's Mexican immigrants are making slow but steady socioeconomic progress and may one day reach parity with earlier immigrant groups who moved up into the heart of American middle-class society."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Joel Perlmann is senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and the Levy Institute Research Professor at Bard College.

Table of Contents

About the Author	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(6)
Toward a Population History: A Basis for Comparisons	7	(30)
Immigrant Wages Then and Now	37	(23)
Second-Generation Schooling	60	(30)
Second-Generation Economic Outcomes	90	(26)
Conclusion	116	(10)
Appendix	126	(37)
Notes	163	(12)
References	175	(8)
Index	183