Assimilation of immigrants and their adult children : college education, cohabitation, and work

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Label

Assimilation of immigrants and their adult children : college education, cohabitation, and work

Title remainder

college education, cohabitation, and work

Statement of responsibility

Ping Chen

Creator

• Chen, Ping

Subject

• Adult children of immigrants -- United States
• Americanization
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

Chen studies recent immigrants and their adult children in three domains: college education, union formation, and work. In education, Chen finds that second-generation youth universally achieve higher in high school graduation than their immigrant parents. However, assimilation in terms of college education is lower among some ethnic groups due to social, cultural and structural factors. In family life, Chen finds that being raised in immigrant families protects youth from assimilating into the alternative life style of cohabitation and encourages marriage. In employment, nativity and immigran

Member of

• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central
• The new Americans : recent immigration and American society

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

305.9/06912

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

JV6475

LC item number

.C44 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography