Group Differences In Educational Attainment Among The Children Of Immigrants

Author : Teresa Abada,Bali Ram,Feng Hou,Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch,Statistics Canada. Business and Labour Market Analysis Division,Statistique Canada. Direction des études analytiques
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children of immigrants
ISBN : 066248326X

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Group Differences in Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants by Teresa Abada,Bali Ram,Feng Hou,Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch,Statistics Canada. Business and Labour Market Analysis Division,Statistique Canada. Direction des études analytiques Pdf

This study examines the group differences in university educational attainment among the children of immigrants. It also examines the extent to which parental human capital and group level economic resources for these groups account for differences in university completion rates. Data for this study came from the 2002 Statistics Canada Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS), which focused on a sub-sample of about 3,300 young adults aged from 25 to 34 who were either Canadian-born children of at least one immigrant parent or who immigrated to Canada at age 12 or younger.--Document.

Author : Garnett Picot,Feng Hou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:907967754

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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States by Garnett Picot,Feng Hou Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264086395

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Equal Opportunities? The Labour Market Integration of the Children of Immigrants by OECD Pdf

This book contains the proceedings of a seminar that shed light on the issues involved in labour market integration of the children of immigrants.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309065450

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Children of Immigrants by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families Pdf

Immigrant children and youth are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country. Children of Immigrants represents some of the very best and most extensive research efforts to date on the circumstances, health, and development of children in immigrant families and the delivery of health and social services to these children and their families. This book presents new, detailed analyses of more than a dozen existing datasets that constitute a large share of the national system for monitoring the health and well-being of the U.S. population. Prior to these new analyses, few of these datasets had been used to assess the circumstances of children in immigrant families. The analyses enormously expand the available knowledge about the physical and mental health status and risk behaviors, educational experiences and outcomes, and socioeconomic and demographic circumstances of first- and second-generation immigrant children, compared with children with U.S.-born parents.

Author : Gillian Creese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487534851

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“Where Are You From?” by Gillian Creese Pdf

Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Black. In this context, African-Canadians are both hyper-visible as Black, and invisible as distinct communities. Informed by feminist and critical race theories, and based on interviews with women and men who grew up in Vancouver, "Where Are You From?" recounts the unique experience of growing up in a place where the second generation seldom sees other people who look like them, and yet are inundated with popular representations of Blackness from the United States. This study explores how the second generation in Vancouver redefine their African identities to distinguish themselves from African-Americans, while continuing to experience considerable everyday racism that challenges belonging as Canadians. As a result, some members of the second generation reject, and others strongly assert, a Canadian identity.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264301030

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Catching Up? Country Studies on Intergenerational Mobility and Children of Immigrants by OECD Pdf

Previous OECD and EU work has shown that even native-born children with immigrant parents face persistent disadvantage in the education system, the school-to-work transition and the labour market. To which degree are these linked with their immigration background, i.e. with the issues faced by ...

Author : Philip Kasinitz,John H. Mollenkopf,Mary C. Waters,Jennifer Holdaway
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610446556

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Inheriting the City by Philip Kasinitz,John H. Mollenkopf,Mary C. Waters,Jennifer Holdaway Pdf

The United States is an immigrant nation—nowhere is the truth of this statement more evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of New York City's population and even more of Miami and Los Angeles. But the United States is also a nation with entrenched racial divisions that are being complicated by the arrival of newcomers. While immigrant parents may often fear that their children will "disappear" into American mainstream society, leaving behind their ethnic ties, many experts fear that they won't—evolving instead into a permanent unassimilated and underemployed underclass. Inheriting the City confronts these fears with evidence, reporting the results of a major study examining the social, cultural, political, and economic lives of today's second generation in metropolitan New York, and showing how they fare relative to their first-generation parents and native-stock counterparts. Focused on New York but providing lessons for metropolitan areas across the country, Inheriting the City is a comprehensive analysis of how mass immigration is transforming life in America's largest metropolitan area. The authors studied the young adult offspring of West Indian, Chinese, Dominican, South American, and Russian Jewish immigrants and compared them to blacks, whites, and Puerto Ricans with native-born parents. They find that today's second generation is generally faring better than their parents, with Chinese and Russian Jewish young adults achieving the greatest education and economic advancement, beyond their first-generation parents and even beyond their native-white peers. Every second-generation group is doing at least marginally—and, in many cases, significantly—better than natives of the same racial group across several domains of life. Economically, each second-generation group earns as much or more than its native-born comparison group, especially African Americans and Puerto Ricans, who experience the most persistent disadvantage. Inheriting the City shows the children of immigrants can often take advantage of policies and programs that were designed for native-born minorities in the wake of the civil rights era. Indeed, the ability to choose elements from both immigrant and native-born cultures has produced, the authors argue, a second-generation advantage that catalyzes both upward mobility and an evolution of mainstream American culture. Inheriting the City leads the chorus of recent research indicating that we need not fear an immigrant underclass. Although racial discrimination and economic exclusion persist to varying degrees across all the groups studied, this absorbing book shows that the new generation is also beginning to ease the intransigence of U.S. racial categories. Adapting elements from their parents' cultures as well as from their native-born peers, the children of immigrants are not only transforming the American city but also what it means to be American.

Author : Peter A.J. Stevens,A. Gary Dworkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319947242

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The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education by Peter A.J. Stevens,A. Gary Dworkin Pdf

This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference work builds on its first edition to provide a cutting-edge systematic review of the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality. Studying 25 different national contexts drawn from every inhabited continent on earth and building upon material from the earlier edition, the work analyses educational policies, practices and research on minority students, immigrants and refugees. The editors and contributors explore principal research traditions from countries as diverse as Argentina, China, Norway and South Africa, examining the factors promoting social cohesion as well as considerations regarding the use of international test score data. Seamlessly integrating findings of national reviews, the editors and contributors analyse how national contexts of race/ethnic relations shape the character and content of educational inequalities, and deftly map out new directions for future research in the area. Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, race and ethnicity studies and social policy. Chapter 20 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at SpringerLink (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-94724-2_20)

Author : P. Stevens,A. Dworkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137317803

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The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education by P. Stevens,A. Dworkin Pdf

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.

Author : Giuseppe Giordan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004193727

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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion by Giuseppe Giordan Pdf

The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the “new” role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism.

Author : Renee Luthra,Roger Waldinger,Thomas Soehl
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780871549129

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Origins and Destinations by Renee Luthra,Roger Waldinger,Thomas Soehl Pdf

The children of immigrants continue a journey begun by their parents. Born or raised in the United States, this second generation now stands over 20 million strong. In this insightful new book, immigration scholars Renee Luthra, Thomas Soehl, and Roger Waldinger provide a fresh understanding the making of the second generation, bringing both their origins and destinations into view. Using surveys of second generation immigrant adults in New York and Los Angeles, Origins and Destinations explains why second generation experiences differ across national origin groups and why immigrant offspring with the same national background often follow different trajectories. Inter-group disparities stem from contexts of both emigration and immigration. Origin countries differ in value orientations: immigrant parents transmit lessons learned in varying contexts of emigration to children raised in the U.S. A system of migration control sifts immigrants by legal status, generating a context of immigration that favors some groups over others. Both contexts matter: schooling is higher among immigrant children from more secular societies (South Korea) than among those from more religious countries (the Philippines). When immigrant groups enter the U.S. migration system through a welcoming door, as opposed to one that makes authorized status difficult to achieve, education propels immigrant children to better jobs. Diversity is also evident among immigrant offspring whose parents stem from the same place. Immigrant children grow up with homeland connections, which can both hurt and harm: immigrant offspring get less schooling when a parent lives abroad, but more schooling if parents in the U.S. send money to relatives living abroad. Though all immigrants enter the U.S. as non-citizens, some instantly enjoy legal status, while others spend years in the shadows. Children born abroad, but raised in the U.S. are all everyday Americans, but only some have become de jure Americans, a difference yielding across-the-board positive effects, even among those who started out in the same country. Disentangling the sources of diversity among today’s population of immigrant offspring, Origins and Destinations provides a compelling new framework for understanding the second generation that is transforming America.

Author : Soheila Pashang,Nazilla Khanlou,Jennifer Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319648385

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Today’s Youth and Mental Health by Soheila Pashang,Nazilla Khanlou,Jennifer Clarke Pdf

This book focuses on the social and intersectional determinants of mental health among youth. The innovative and cutting edge text arises out of multidisciplinary fields of academic, researchers, policy makers, practitioners, artists, and youth. Contributions from Canada, Germany, Portugal, South Korea, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, and Jamaica addresses the complexities and the opportunities for youth across contexts. Each chapter entails an introduction to the topic, literature review and research findings, discussion, and implications in regard to research, policy, and practice. A unique aspect of the book is the inclusion of a critical response to each chapter’s content from diverse stakeholders (such as policy makers, front line workers, practitioners, community activists, artists and youth).The book is a critical and current contribution to exploring youth mental health and, specifically, the ways in which youth learn, live, and resist in a world around them. Topics examined include youth social engagement, civic integration, and political participation at multiple local, regional, and transnational levels.

Author : Robert A. Kenedy,Fernando Nunes,Ana Paula Beja Horta
Publisher : Baywolf Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Identity, Civic Engagement and Multiculturalism: Portuguese-Canadian Immigrant Descendants in Canada and Portugal by Robert A. Kenedy,Fernando Nunes,Ana Paula Beja Horta Pdf

This special issue of the Portuguese Studies Review focuses on understanding the Portuguese−Canadian immigrant experience in Canada and Portugal, in terms of identity formation and civic engagement within a broader framework of current debates on multiculturalism, and transnationalism. This special volume resulted from the contributions presented at the Symposium Identity, Civic Engagement and Multiculturalism: Portuguese−Canadian Immigrant Descendants in Canada, which was held at York University, Toronto, on 11 and 12 October 2011. The issue presents studies by Robert A. Kenedy, Fernando Nunes, Ana Paula Beja Horta, Gilberta Pavão Nunes Rocha, Derrick Mendes, Christina Kwiczała, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Filomena Silvano, Marta Rosales, and Sónia Ferreira.

Author : Aneta Bonikowska,Feng Hou,Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch,Statistics Canada. Social Analysis Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Adult children of immigrants
ISBN : 1100177124

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Reversal of Fortunes Or Continued Success? by Aneta Bonikowska,Feng Hou,Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch,Statistics Canada. Social Analysis Division Pdf

Author : Ian Goldin,Geoffrey Cameron,Meera Balarajan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691156316

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Exceptional People by Ian Goldin,Geoffrey Cameron,Meera Balarajan Pdf

The past, present, and future role of global migration Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase. Exceptional People provides a long-term and global perspective on the implications and policy options for societies the world over. Challenging the received wisdom that a dramatic growth in migration is undesirable, the book proposes new approaches for governance that will embrace this international mobility. The authors explore the critical role of human migration since humans first departed Africa some fifty thousand years ago—how the circulation of ideas and technologies has benefited communities and how the movement of people across oceans and continents has fueled economies. They show that migrants in today's world connect markets, fill labor gaps, and enrich social diversity. Migration also allows individuals to escape destitution, human rights abuses, and repressive regimes. However, the authors indicate that most current migration policies are based on misconceptions and fears about migration's long-term contributions and social dynamics. Future policies, for good or ill, will dramatically determine whether societies can effectively reap migration's opportunities while managing the risks of the twenty-first century. A guide to vigorous debate and action, Exceptional People charts the past and present of international migration and makes practical recommendations that will allow everyone to benefit from its unstoppable future growth.