Educating the Children of Immigrants in the United States

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Dylan Conger ◽  
Rebecca Hinze-Pifer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants

Durable Ethnicity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Telles ◽  
Christina A. Sue
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
The Third ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
The Common

Despite the common perception that most persons of Mexican origin in the United States are undocumented immigrants or the young children of immigrants, the majority are citizens and have been living in the United States for three or more generations. On many dimensions of integration, this group initially makes strides on education, English language use, socioeconomic status, intermarriage, residential segregation, and political participation, but progress on some dimensions halts at the second generation as poverty rates remain high and educational attainment declines for the third and fourth generations, although ethnic identity remains generally strong. In these ways, the experience of Mexican Americans differs considerably from that of previous waves of European immigrants who were incorporated and assimilated fully into the mainstream within two or three generations. This book examines what ethnicity means and how it is negotiated in the lives of multiple generations of Mexican Americans.

scholarly journals Latin American Immigration to the United States

Daedalus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Tienda ◽  
Susana M. Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Cumulative Impact ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Latin American Immigration ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

This essay provides an overview of immigration from Latin America since 1960, focusing on changes in both the size and composition of the dominant streams and their cumulative impact on the U.S. foreign-born population. We briefly describe the deep historical roots of current migration streams and the policy backdrop against which migration from the region surged. Distinguishing among the three major pathways to U.S. residence – family sponsorship, asylum, and unauthorized entry – we explain how contemporary flows are related both to economic crises, political conflicts, and humanitarian incidents in sending countries, but especially to idiosyncratic application of existing laws over time. The concluding section highlights the importance of investing in the children of immigrants to meet the future labor needs of an aging nation.

Afterword: Understanding and Serving the Children of Immigrants

2001 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Child Population ◽  
Educational Pathways

To date, demographers, economists, and sociologists who focus almost exclusively on adults have dominated the agenda of immigration scholarship. Immigrant youth, however, are now the fastest growing sector of the child population (Landale & Oropesa, 1995). Today, one in five children in the United States is the child of immigrants, and it is projected that by 2040 one in three children will fit this description (Rong & Prissle, 1998). Given the numbers involved, how these children adapt and the educational pathways they take will clearly have profound implications for our society. Thus, there is an urgent need to expand our knowledge in this field.

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 580-608
Author(s):  
Ran Abramitzky ◽  
Leah Boustan ◽  
Elisa Jácome ◽  
Santiago Pérez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Us History ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Immigration

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward mobility than children of the US-born. Immigrants’ advantage is similar historically and today despite dramatic shifts in sending countries and US immigration policy. Immigrants achieve this advantage in part by choosing to settle in locations that offer better prospects for their children. (JEL J15, J18, J62, K37, N31, N32)

Children of Immigrants in the United States

2018 ◽  
pp. 308-324
Author(s):  
Mary C. Waters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Intact Families

This chapter reviews what is known about how the children of immigrants to the United States are integrating. Overall the second generation is integrating with natives, showing a great deal of progress compared to their parents levels in socioeconomic attainment. In other areas such as crime, health and family type, the children of immigrants are also converging with native born Americans, but in these three areas this makes them worse off because first generation immigrants have lower crime rates, better health and more intact families than native born Americans. While the children of immigrants suffer from racial discrimination and rising income inequality which also affects the native born, there is one area in which they face a specific barrier to their integration and well-being—legal status. Undocumented children and the citizen children of the undocumented show more psychological distress, lower educational attainment and other negative consequences stemming from their parents legal status. Universal policy solutions that address racial discrimination and income inequality are recommended. In addition, an appeal to human rights and to American shared moral values are suggested as a way forward to improve conditions for undocumented immigrants and their families and to reach a lasting solution to America’s immigration impasse.

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