Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, Jennifer Holdaway
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0674028031
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.23
EAN: 9780674028036
ASIN: 0674028031
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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p Behind the contentious politics of immigration lies the question of how well new immigrants are becoming part of American society. To address this question, iInheriting the City/i draws on the results of a ground-breaking study of young adults of immigrant parents in metropolitan New York to provide a comprehensive look at their social, economic, cultural, and political lives. /pp iInheriting the City/i examines five immigrant groups to disentangle the complicated question of how they are faring relative to native-born groups, and how achievement differs between and within these groups. While some experts worry that these young adults would not do as well as previous waves of immigrants due to lack of high-paying manufacturing jobs, poor public schools, and an entrenched racial divide, iInheriting the City/i finds that the second generation is rapidly moving into the mainstream?speaking English, working in jobs that resemble those held by native New Yorkers their age, and creatively combining their ethnic cultures and norms with American ones. Far from descending into an urban underclass, the children of immigrants are using immigrant advantages to avoid some of the obstacles that native minority groups cannot. /p
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Where is the data for Mexican Immigrants? August 25, 2008
John Gault
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This study looks at five groups: Russians, Dominicans, South Americans, Chinese and West Indian; and ignores the largest single group of immigrants (documented or undocumented): those from Mexico. Are there really so few immigrants from Mexico in NYC that they deserve no attention from the authors? br / br /Because of this glaring omission, the study is largely irrelevant to any attempt to understand the issue of immigration and assimilation in the nation as a whole, though it is perhaps of some use for the city of New York. br / br /A similar study is underway for Los Angeles, and will include Mexicans. Once that is published, we should have a better understanding of immigration and assimilation. Until then, this book provides a narrow glimpse of a much larger picture.
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