Assimilation of Immigrants and Their Adult Children : College Education, Cohabitation, and Work.

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Chen studies recent immigrants and their adult children in three domains: college education, union formation, and work. In education, Chen finds that second-generation youth universally achieve higher in high school graduation than their immigrant parents. However, assimilation in terms of college e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Ping
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010.
Colección:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Americanization.
Adult children of immigrants > United States.
Américanisation.
Enfants adultes d'immigrants > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Adult children of immigrants
Americanization
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Chen studies recent immigrants and their adult children in three domains: college education, union formation, and work. In education, Chen finds that second-generation youth universally achieve higher in high school graduation than their immigrant parents. However, assimilation in terms of college education is lower among some ethnic groups due to social, cultural and structural factors. In family life, Chen finds that being raised in immigrant families protects youth from assimilating into the alternative life style of cohabitation and encourages marriage. In employment, nativity and immigran.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (189 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781593326449
1593326440

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