Second Generation Decline? Children of Immigrants, Past and Present-a Reconsideration
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Winter 1997
- Published:
- uk: Blackwell
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Subject Term:
- Social classes, Population studies, Race awareness, Emigrants and immigration, Assimilation (sociology)
- Notes:
- Is the contemporary second generation on the road to the upward mobility and assimilation that in retrospect characterized the second generation of earlier immigrations? Or are the American economic context and the racial origins of today's immigration likely to result in a much less favorable future for the contemporary second generation? While several recent papers have argued for the latter position, we suspect they are too pessimistic. We briefly review the Second generation upward mobility in the past and then turn to the crucial comparisons between past and present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
