Research Catalog

Title

The children of immigrants at school : a comparative look at integration in the United States and Western Europe / edited by Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holdaway, Jennifer
• Alba, Richard D.

Description

x, 340 pages; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Children of immigrants > Social conditions > United States
• Children of immigrants > Social conditions > Europe
• Children of immigrants > Economic conditions > United States
• Children of immigrants > Economic conditions > Europe
• Children of immigrants > Education > United States
• Children of immigrants > Education > Europe
• Social integration > United States
• Social integration > Europe
• Children of immigrants > Economic conditions
• Children of immigrants > Education
• Children of immigrants > Social conditions
• Social integration
• Einwanderer
• Schulerfolg
• Generation 2
• Enfants d'immigrés > Études comparatives
• Children of immigrants > United States > Social conditions
• Children of immigrants > Europe > Social conditions
• Children of immigrants > United States > Economic conditions
• Children of immigrants > Europe > Economic conditions
• Europe
• United States
• USA
• Westeuropa

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• "A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-313) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Richard Alba, Jennifer Holdaway and Josh DeWind -- The integration imperative : introduction / Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway -- Educating the children of immigrants in old and new Amsterdam / Maurice Crul, Jennifer Holdaway, Helga de Valk, Norma Fuentes, and Mayida Zaal -- Different systems, similar results : youth of immigrant origin at school in California and Catalonia / Margaret Gibson, Silvia Carrasco, Jordie Pamies, Maribel Ponferrada, and Anne Ros -- Second generation attainment and inequality : primary and secondary effects on educational outcomes in Britain and the U.S. / Mary C. Waters, Anthony Heath, Van C. Tran, and Vikki Boliver -- How similar educational inequalities are constructed in two different systems, France and the U.S. : why they lead to disparate labor-market outcomes / Richard Alba, Roxane Silberman, Dalia Abdel-Hady, Yal Brinbaum, and Amy Lutz -- Promising practices : preparing children of immigrants in New York and Sweden / Carola Suarez-Orozco, Margary Martin, Mikael Alexandersson, L. Janelle Dance, and Johannes Lunneblad -- The children of immigrants at school : conclusions and recommendations / Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780814760949 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0814760945 (cl : alk. paper)
• 9780814760253 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0814760252 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2013017065
• 40023305122

OCLC

• 841516996
• SCSB-10897407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library