Unequal origins
Subtitle: immigrant selection and the education of the second generation
By: Cynthia Feliciano.
Series: The new Americans; New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Children of immigrants -- Education -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies.; Immigrants -- Education -- Cross-cultural studies.; Educational attainment -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Explaining ethnic differences: cultural and structural views; title: Those who stay and those who leave; title: Immigrant origins and second-generation ambitions; title: Immigrant origins and second-generation attainment; title: Upwards, downwards, sideways?: the assimilation; title: Trajectories of contemporary immigrant groups; title: Conclusion: unequal origins, unequal outcomes.