Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity - the opposition between culture and structure - and presents a collection of essays that transcend simplistic either/or approaches to this issue. The contributors explore educational and economic mobility of immigrant groups in Europe and America.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2000

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9780333793435, 9780333793428

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Index

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction: The role of culture in explanations of social mobility
2 Introduction: The persistence of culture versus structure in recent work. The case of modes of incorporation
3 What colour ‘success’? Distorting value in studies of ethnic entrepreneurship
4 The cultural fallacy in studies of racial and ethnic mobility
5 Situational and structural rationales for the school performance of immigrant youth. Three cases
6 What the Jews brought. East-European Jewish immigration to the United States, c. 1900
7 Peasantry and trading diaspora. Differential social mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States
8 The internationalization of black culture. A comparison of lower-class youth in Brazil and the Netherlands
9 Creoles and Hindustanis. Patterns of social mobility in two Surinamese immigrant groups in the Netherlands
10 Does culture explain? Understanding differences in school attainment between Iberian and Turkish youth in the Netherlands
11 Breaking the circle of disadvantage. Social mobility of second-generation Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands
Subject Index
Author Index

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