The next generation : : immigrant youth in a comparative perspective / / edited by Richard Alba and Mary C. Waters.

• TeilnehmendeR: Alba, Richard D.; Waters, Mary C.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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 Generation brings 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. Contributors: Dalia Abdel-Hady, Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, Maurice Crul, Nancy A. Denton, Rosita Fibbi, Nancy Foner, Anthony F. Heath, Donald J. Hernandez, Tariqul Islam, Frank Kalter, Philip Kasinitz, Mark A. Leach, Mathias Lerch, Suzanne E. Macartney, Karen G Marotz, Noriko Matsumoto, Tariq Modood, Joel Perlmann, Karen Phalet, Jeffrey G. Reitz, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Roxanne Silberman, Philippe Wanner, Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida, and Ye Zhang.

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Dimensions of Second-Generation: Incorporation An Introduction to the Book -- 2. Legalization and Naturalization Trajectories among Mexican Immigrants and Their Implications for the Second Generation -- 3. Early Childhood Education Programs -- 4. The Mexican American Second Generation in Census 2000 -- 5. Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans -- 6. School Qualifications of Children of Immigrant Descent in Switzerland -- 7. Ethnic Community, Urban Economy, and Second-Generation Attainment -- 8. The Second Generation in the German Labor Market -- 9. Capitals, Ethnic Identity, and Educational Qualifications -- 10. National and Urban Contexts for the Integration of the Second Generation in the United States and Canada -- 11. “I Will Never Deliver Chinese Food” -- 12. Black Identities and the Second Generation -- 13. How Do Educational Systems Integrate? -- 14. The Employment of Second Generations in France -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index