Exceptional outcomes : achievement in education and employment among children of immigrants / special editors of this volume, Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Alejandro Portes.
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
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| Series: | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
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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 ... [et al.]
- 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.
