An edition of Exceptional outcomes
(2008)
Exceptional outcomes
achievement in education and employment among children of immigrants
by María Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Alejandro Portes
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Exceptional outcomes: achievement in education and employment among children of immigrants
2008, SAGE Publications
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Table of Contents
No margin for error: educational and occupational achievement among disadvantaged children of immigrants -- Alejandro Portes, -- Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Success attained, deterred, and denied: divergent pathways to social mobility in Los Angeles's new second generation -- Min Zhou [and others]
The role of the school in the upward mobility of disadvantaged immigrants' children -- Lingxin Hao, -- Suet-ling Pong
Disparities in the educational success of immigrants: an assessment of the immigrant effect for Asians and Latinos -- Angel L. Harris, -- Kenneth M. Jamison, -- Monica H. Trujillo
The back pocket map: social class and cultural capital as transferable assets in the advancement of second-generation immigrants -- Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Ethnic communities and school performance among the new second generation in the United States: testing the theory of segmented assimilation -- Clemens Kroneberg
Fit to miss, but matched to hatch: success factors among the second generation's disadvantaged in South Florida -- Lisa Konczal,-- William Haller.
Educational hopes, documented dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants' legality and educational prospects -- Cecilia Menjívar
The coming of the second generation: immigration and ethnic mobility in Southern California -- Rubén G. Rumbaut
"Here's your diploma, Mom!" Family obligation and multiple pathways to success -- Tekla Nicholas, -- Alex Stepick, -- Carol Dutton Stepick
Becoming American, becoming minority, getting ahead: the role of racial and ethnic status in the upward mobility of the children of immigrants -- Philip Kasinitz
Horatio Alger lives in Brooklyn: extrafamily support, intrafamily dynamics, and socially neutral operating identities in exceptional mobility among children of Mexican immigrants -- Robert Courtney Smith
Norms, values, and solidarity: a Durkheimian perspective on escaping from the inner city -- Steven Elías Alvarado
No margin for error and its implications for future research -- G. Cristina Mora
We are the people who love us and the stories we tell ourselves -- Alejandro Rivas
New faces in new places: the changing geography of American immigration -- reviewed by Peggy Levitt
Inheriting the city: the children of immigrants come of age -- reviewed by Charles Hirschman.
Edition Notes
"November 2008."
"This volume originated in a series of meetings on the performance of minority students in college, which was convened at the Andrew Mellon Foundation in 2005"--Page 7.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also issued online.
Current copyright fee: GBP30.24 1030.
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