Inheriting the City
Subtitle: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Russell Sage Foundation
Published: May 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780674028036
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Emigration And Immigration; New York - Local History; History; Sociology; History: American; USA; Children's Studies; Emigration & Immigration; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic
Description: "Inheriting the City examines five immigrant groups to disentangle the complicated question of how they are faring relative to nativeborn groups, and how achievement differs between and within these groups. While some experts worry that these young adults will 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, Inheriting the City 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."--BOOK JACKET.