The children of immigrants at school : a comparative look at integration in the United States and Western Europe /
This book explores the twenty-first-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 volume, the editors bring together a t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
NYU Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Social Science Research Council.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Richard Alba, Jennifer Holdaway, and Josh DeWind
- The integration imperative : introduction / Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway
- Educating the children of immigrants in old and new Amsterdam / Maurice Crul, Jennifer Holdaway, Helga de Valk, Norma Fuentes, and Mayida Zaal
- Different systems, similar results : youth of immigrant origin at school in California and Catalonia / Margaret Gibson, Silvia Carrasco, Jordie Pàmies, Maribel Ponferrada, and Anne Ríos-Rojas
- Second-generation attainment and inequality : primary and secondary effects on educational outcomes in Britain and the U.S. / Mary C. Waters, Anthony Heath, Van C. Tran, and Vikki Boliver
- How similar educational inequalities are constructed in two different systems, France and the U.S. : why they lead to disparate labor-market outcomes / Richard Alba, Roxane Silberman, Dalia Abdel-Hady, Yal Brinbaum, and Amy Lutz
- Promising practices : preparing children of immigrants in New York and Sweden / Carola Suárez-Orozco, Margary Martin, Mikael Alexandersson, L. Janelle Dance, and Johannes Lunneblad
- The children of immigrants at school : conclusions and recommendations / Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway.
