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Goyette, Kimberly

Education and Immigration

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Education is a crucially important social institution, closely correlated with wealth, occupational prestige, psychological well-being, and health outcomes. Moreover, for children of immigrants – who account for almost one in four school-aged children in the U.S. – it is the primary means through which they become incorporated into American society.

This insightful new book explores the educational outcomes of post-1965 immigrants and their children. Tracing the historical context and key contemporary scholarship on immigration, the authors examine issues such as structural versus cultural theories of education stratification, the overlap of immigrant status with race and ethnicity, and the role of language in educational outcomes. Throughout, the authors pay attention to the great diversity among immigrants: some arrive with PhDs to work as research professors, while others arrive with a primary school education and no English skills to work as migrant laborers. As immigrants come from an ever-increasing array of races, ethnicities, and national origins, immigrant assimilation is more complex than ever before, and education is central to their adaptation to American society.

Shedding light on often misunderstood topics, this book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate-level courses in sociology of education, immigration, and race and ethnicity.

Keywords: sociology, education studies, adaptation, assimilation, language, immigrant, Sociology of Culture, Race & Ethnicity Studies, Sociology of Culture, Race & Ethnicity Studies

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2012
Language
en
Edition
1
Series
Immigration and Society
Page amount
200 pages
Category
Economy
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9780745664569
Printed ISBN
9780745648323

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