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The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe

2013 Social Science Research Council ;ISBN: 9780814760949 ;ISBN: 0814760945 ;EISBN: 0814724353 ;EISBN: 9780814724354 ;DOI: 10.18574/9780814724354 ;OCLC: 859537102 ;LCCallNum: HQ792.U5C4325 2013

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    The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe
  • Author: Alba, Richard ; Holdaway, Jennifer
  • Richard Alba ; Jennifer Holdaway
  • Subjects: Children of immigrants ; Children of immigrants-Economic conditions-Europe ; Children of immigrants-Economic conditions-United States ; Children of immigrants-Education-Europe ; Children of immigrants-Education-United States ; Children of immigrants-Social conditions-Europe ; Children of immigrants-Social conditions-United States ; Economic conditions ; Education ; Europe ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Social conditions ; Social integration ; Social integration-Europe ; Social integration-United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; United States
  • Description: The Children of Immigrants at Schoolexplores the 21st-century consequences of immigration through an examination of how the so-called second generation is faring educationally in six countries: France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States. In this insightful volume, Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway bring together a team of renowned social science researchers from around the globe to compare the educational achievements of children from low-status immigrant groups to those of mainstream populations in these countries, asking what we can learn from one system that can be usefully applied in another.Working from the results of a five-year, multi-national study, the contributors toThe Children of Immigrants at Schoolultimately conclude that educational processes do, in fact, play a part in creating unequal status for immigrant groups in these societies. In most countries, the youth coming from the most numerous immigrant populations lag substantially behind their mainstream peers, implying that they will not be able to integrate economically and civically as traditional mainstream populations shrink. Despite this fact, the comparisons highlight features of each system that hinder the educational advance of immigrant-origin children, allowing the contributors to identify a number of policy solutions to help fix the problem. A comprehensive look at a growing global issue,The Children of Immigrants at Schoolrepresents a major achievement in the fields of education and immigration studies. Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. His publications include Remaking the American Mainstream (with Victor Nee) and Blurring the Color Line Jennifer Holdaway is a Program Director at the Social Science Research Council, where her work has focused on migration and its interaction with processes of social change and stratification.
  • Publisher: New York: NYU Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 350
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780814760949
    ISBN: 0814760945
    EISBN: 0814724353
    EISBN: 9780814724354
    DOI: 10.18574/9780814724354
    OCLC: 859537102
    LCCallNum: HQ792.U5C4325 2013
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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