Origins and Destinations

Origins and Destinations
Author :
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages : 357
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610448758
ISBN-13 : 1610448758
Rating : 4/5 (758 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Origins and Destinations by : Renee Luthra

Download or read book Origins and Destinations written by Renee Luthra and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The children of immigrants continue a journey begun by their parents. Born or raised in the United States, this second generation now stands over 20 million strong. In this insightful new book, immigration scholars Renee Luthra, Thomas Soehl, and Roger Waldinger provide a fresh understanding the making of the second generation, bringing both their origins and destinations into view. Using surveys of second generation immigrant adults in New York and Los Angeles, Origins and Destinations explains why second generation experiences differ across national origin groups and why immigrant offspring with the same national background often follow different trajectories. Inter-group disparities stem from contexts of both emigration and immigration. Origin countries differ in value orientations: immigrant parents transmit lessons learned in varying contexts of emigration to children raised in the U.S. A system of migration control sifts immigrants by legal status, generating a context of immigration that favors some groups over others. Both contexts matter: schooling is higher among immigrant children from more secular societies (South Korea) than among those from more religious countries (the Philippines). When immigrant groups enter the U.S. migration system through a welcoming door, as opposed to one that makes authorized status difficult to achieve, education propels immigrant children to better jobs. Diversity is also evident among immigrant offspring whose parents stem from the same place. Immigrant children grow up with homeland connections, which can both hurt and harm: immigrant offspring get less schooling when a parent lives abroad, but more schooling if parents in the U.S. send money to relatives living abroad. Though all immigrants enter the U.S. as non-citizens, some instantly enjoy legal status, while others spend years in the shadows. Children born abroad, but raised in the U.S. are all everyday Americans, but only some have become de jure Americans, a difference yielding across-the-board positive effects, even among those who started out in the same country. Disentangling the sources of diversity among today’s population of immigrant offspring, Origins and Destinations provides a compelling new framework for understanding the second generation that is transforming America.


Origins and Destinations Related Books

Origins and Destinations
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Renee Luthra
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-25 - Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

GET EBOOK

The children of immigrants continue a journey begun by their parents. Born or raised in the United States, this second generation now stands over 20 million str
Origins and Destinations
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Albert Henry Halsey
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Development Digest
Language: en
Pages: 140
Authors:
Categories: Economic development
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

A quarterly journal of excerpts, summaries and reprints of current materials on economic and social development.
Migration, Mobility and Modernization
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: David J. Siddle
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

GET EBOOK

For almost a hundred years the academic study of migration concentrated on evolving standardised models of migration behaviour based on data from censuses or th
Classics from IJGIS
Language: en
Pages: 585
Authors: Peter Fisher
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-20 - Publisher: CRC Press

GET EBOOK

The past 20 years can be regarded as the adolescence of geographic information science (GIS), as it grew from a burgeoning area of study into a mature and thriv