Kao / Vaquera / Goyette Education and Immigration

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6456-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: PIMS - Polity Immigration and Society series

Education is a crucially important social institution, closelycorrelated with wealth, occupational prestige, psychologicalwell-being, and health outcomes. Moreover, for children ofimmigrants - who account for almost one in four school-agedchildren in the U.S. - it is the primary means through whichthey become incorporated into American society.
This insightful new book explores the educational outcomes ofpost-1965 immigrants and their children. Tracing the historicalcontext and key contemporary scholarship on immigration, theauthors examine issues such as structural versus cultural theoriesof education stratification, the overlap of immigrant status withrace and ethnicity, and the role of language in educationaloutcomes. Throughout, the authors pay attention to the greatdiversity among immigrants: some arrive with PhDs to work asresearch professors, while others arrive with a primary schooleducation and no English skills to work as migrant laborers. Asimmigrants come from an ever-increasing array of races,ethnicities, and national origins, immigrant assimilation is morecomplex than ever before, and education is central to theiradaptation to American society.
Shedding light on often misunderstood topics, this book will beinvaluable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate-levelcourses in sociology of education, immigration, and race andethnicity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kao, Grace

Vaquera, Elizabeth

Goyette, Kimberly

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Education and the American Dream 1
2 Becoming American (or Not): Paths to Assimilation 25
3 Historical Overview of Immigration 51
4 Educational Attainment and Socioeconomic Status of Immigrant Adults 76
5 Educational Achievement and Outcomes of Children in Immigrant Families 106
6 Language and Educational Success 140
7 Conclusion 170
References 189
Index 210

Über Autor(innen)

Grace Kao is professor of sociology, education, and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Vaquera is assistant professor of sociology at the University of South Florida
Kimberly Goyette is associate professor of sociology at Temple University