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Title: School Participation and Immigrant Youth: The Case of Segmented Assimilation in the Early 20th Century

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Research on the educational enrollment of immigrants typically asserts that todays immigrant children are educationally disadvantaged, and that earlier waves of immigrants were more readily absorbed into the American educational system. This paper addresses these assumptions, drawing on traditional assimilationist and status competition approaches to race and ethnic stratification. Data from the 1920 Census IPUMS are used to analyze school participation of 15 to 18 year olds living in the parental home. The findings demonstrate that the process of assimilation was not uniform for all groups. Some groups achieved parity with the native-stock by the third generation; others took at least an additional generation, or experienced declines in the proportions enrolled in school. In general, the results suggest strong parallels between the educational experiences of white ethnics in 1920 and those of todays immigrants.

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Authors: Sassler, Sharon

Periodical (Full): Sociology of Education

Issue: 1

Volume: 79

Pages: 1-24

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education, Race and Ethnicity

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