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Title: Moving on Up? Access, Persistence, and Outcomes of Immigrant and Native Youth in Postsecondary Education

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Despite evidence that prior waves of immigrants have largely been absorbed into American society, concern over the fate of newly arriving immigrants from Latin America and Asia persist. Much of the debate focuses on the pattern of their adaptation and the factors that explain different paths to incorporation. Immigration scholars, however, frequently treat theories of adaptation as antithetical; pitting one against the other from which one emerges as the superior account. To complicate matters, firm conclusions regarding the trajectory of adaptation are difficult to draw given the recent arrival of late-twentieth-century immigrants where the majority of the secondgeneration are still children and attend primary and secondary school. Only recently have second-generation immigrants begun to enter postsecondary institutions in large numbers and evidence of their future socioeconomic prospects more apparent. In order to close these gaps in the extant literature and develop a greater understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the assimilation process, I revisit a fundamental question to the study of immigration: How well are , , ,

Url: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/21915

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Authors: De Burgomaster , Scott, G

Institution: University of Washington

Department: Sociology

Advisor: Charles Hirschman

Degree: PhD

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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