{"id":54731,"date":"2013-04-13T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=54731"},"modified":"2013-04-08T01:41:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T06:41:40","slug":"assimilation-among-1st-and-2nd-generation-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/04\/13\/assimilation-among-1st-and-2nd-generation-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Assimilation Among 1st- and 2nd-Generation Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2013\/02\/07\/second-generation-americans\/?src=rss_main\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Social Trends<\/a> suggests that immigrants are strongly assimilated by the second generation. \u00a0While first-generation immigrants (the children of migrants) often do worse on measures of economic security, second-generation immigrants (their grandchildren) are essentially indistinguishable from the general population. \u00a0They&#8217;re also more likely to identify as a &#8220;typical American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/04\/112.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54742\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/04\/112.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"706\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/04\/25.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54743\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/04\/25.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These data should calm the fears of people who think that high fertility rates among immigrants will harm the country by creating a &#8220;dependent&#8221; underclass or a dangerous population of non-patriots.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data presented by Pew Social Trends suggests that immigrants are strongly assimilated by the second generation. \u00a0While first-generation immigrants (the children of migrants) often do worse on measures of economic security, second-generation immigrants (their grandchildren) are essentially indistinguishable from the general population. \u00a0They&#8217;re also more likely to identify as a &#8220;typical American.&#8221; These data should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,34,2125,85],"class_list":["post-54731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-education","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54744,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54731\/revisions\/54744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}