Exceptional outcomes
Subtitle: achievement in education and employment among children of immigrants
By: special editors of this volume, Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Alejandro Portes
Contributors: American Academy of Political and Social Science
Series: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 620; Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 620.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781412971225; 9781412971232
Subjects: Immigrants; Education; Children of immigrants; Academic achievement; Social mobility; Ethnic relations; Berufserfolg; Bildungsgang; Einwanderer; Generation 2.; Sozialer Aufstieg
Notes: "November 2008."

"This volume originated in a series of meetings on the performance of minority students in college, which was convened at the Andrew Mellon Foundation in 2005"--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.

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Table of contents: title: No margin for error: educational and occupational achievement among disadvantaged children of immigrants  -- Alejandro Portes, -- Patricia Fernández-Kelly; title: Success attained, deterred, and denied: divergent pathways to social mobility in Los Angeles's new second generation  -- Min Zhou [and others]; title: The role of the school in the upward mobility of disadvantaged immigrants' children  -- Lingxin Hao, -- Suet-ling Pong; title: 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; title: The back pocket map: social class and cultural capital as transferable assets in the advancement of second-generation immigrants  -- Patricia Fernández-Kelly; title: Ethnic communities and school performance among the new second generation in the United States: testing the theory of segmented assimilation  -- Clemens Kroneberg; title: Fit to miss, but matched to hatch: success factors among the second generation's disadvantaged in South Florida -- Lisa Konczal,-- William Haller.; title: Educational hopes, documented dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants' legality and educational prospects  -- Cecilia Menjívar; title: The coming of the second generation: immigration and ethnic mobility in Southern California  -- Rubén G. Rumbaut; title: "Here's your diploma, Mom!" Family obligation and multiple pathways to success  -- Tekla Nicholas, -- Alex Stepick, -- Carol Dutton Stepick; title: Becoming American, becoming minority, getting ahead: the role of racial and ethnic status in the upward mobility of the children of immigrants  -- Philip Kasinitz; title: 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; title: Norms, values, and solidarity: a Durkheimian perspective on escaping from the inner city  -- Steven Elías Alvarado; title: No margin for error and its implications for future research  -- G. Cristina Mora; title: We are the people who love us and the stories we tell ourselves  -- Alejandro Rivas; title: New faces in new places: the changing geography of American immigration  -- reviewed by Peggy Levitt; title: Inheriting the city: the children of immigrants come of age -- reviewed by Charles Hirschman.