The Next Generation

by Alba, Richard D.; Waters, Mary C.

• ISBN13: 9780814707425
• ISBN10: 0814707424
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-04
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

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 Generationbrings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore how the integration of immigrants affects the generations that come after. The original essays explore the early beginnings of the second generation in the United States and Western Europe, exploring the overall patterns of success of the second generation.While there are many striking similarities in the situations of the children of labor immigrants coming from outside the highly developed worlds of Europe and North America, wherever one looks, subtle features of national and local contexts interact with characteristics of the immigrant groups themselves to create variations in second-generation trajectories. The contributors show that these issues are of the utmost importance For The future, For they will determine the degree to which contemporary immigration will produce either durable ethno-racial cleavages or mainstream integration.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Dimensions of Second-Generation Incorporation: An Introduction to the Book	p. 1
Starting Points
Legalization and Naturalization Trajectories among Mexican Immigrants and Their Implications for the Second Generation	p. 31
Early Childhood Education Programs: Accounting for Low Enrollment in Immigrant and Minority Families	p. 46
Major Case Studies
The Mexican American Second Generation in Census 2000: Education and Earnings	p. 69
Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment	p. 95
School Qualifications of Children of Immigrant Descent in Switzerland	p. 110
Ethnic Community, Urban Economy, and Second-Generation Attainment: Turkish Disadvantage in Belgium	p. 135
The Second Generation in the German Labor Market: Explaining the Turkish Exception	p. 166
Capitals, Ethnic Identity, and Educational Qualifications	p. 185
The Role of Local Context
National and Urban Contexts for the Integration of the Second Generation in the United States and Canada	p. 207
"I Will Never Deliver Chinese Food": The Children of Immigrants in the New York Metropolitan Labor Force	p. 229
In Closing: Comparative Studies
Black Identities and the Second Generation: Afro-Caribbeans in Britain and the United States	p. 251
How Do Educational Systems Integrate? Integration of Second-Generation Turks in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Austria	p. 269
The Employment of Second Generations in France: The Republican Model and the November 2005 Riots	p. 283
References	p. 317
About the Contributors	p. 347
Index	p. 355
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