{"id":52,"date":"2008-09-03T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asian-nation.org\/headlines\/?p=716"},"modified":"2008-09-03T08:31:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:31:32","slug":"latest-immigration-and-assimilation-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/2008\/09\/03\/latest-immigration-and-assimilation-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Immigration and Assimilation Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned on the Contexts Crawler blog<\/a>, National Public Radio (NPR) recently did a podcast that discussed the results of a comprehensive study by some of the best-known and most-respected sociologists in the field on the question of whether contemporary immigrants are immigrating into the American mainstream<\/a> as easily as previous streams of immigrants:<\/p>\n

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The “second generation” project looked at five groups [in the NYC metro area] \u2014 Russians, Dominicans, South Americans, Chinese and West Indians \u2014 and compared them with U.S.-born whites, Puerto Ricans and African-Americans. Researchers found that most in the second generation were fluent in English and working in the mainstream economy. <\/p>\n

When they looked at economic and educational achievement, they found that West Indians were doing better, in general, than African-Americans; Dominicans were doing better than Puerto Ricans; and the Chinese and the Russians were doing as well as or better than native-born whites. . . .<\/p>\n

Legal immigration is more difficult today, and researchers note that this may well change the rate of assimilation. But for these five groups, “what we really find is a very rapid assimilation and becoming American,” says Mary Waters of Harvard University, another author of the study, titled Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age<\/em><\/a>. . . .<\/p>\n

Although Inheriting the City paints an optimistic portrait of this second generation, it has some warnings about the situation facing native-born minorities. The researchers also say the children of undocumented immigrants tend to do worse and have a tougher time assimilating. Because legal immigration is tougher to come by today, researchers say they wonder whether the path for the next “second generation” will be as smooth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although I have not read the Inheriting the City<\/em> book, given my high regard for the expertise of the book’s authors, I have no doubt that it is a very informative and interesting look at this ongoing issue of assimilation among contemporary immigrants.<\/p>\n

I look forward to checking it out soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As mentioned on the Contexts Crawler blog, National Public Radio (NPR) recently did a podcast that discussed the results of a comprehensive study by some of the best-known and most-respected sociologists in the field on the question of whether contemporary immigrants are immigrating into the American mainstream as easily as previous streams of immigrants:
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