"November 2008."
"This volume originated in a series of meetings on the performance of minority students in college, which was convened at the Andrew Mellon Foundation in 2005." --P. 7.
Educational hopes, documented dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants' legality and educational prospects / Cecilia Menjívar
The coming of the second generation: immigration and ethnic mobility in Southern California / Rubén G. Rumbaut
"Here's your diploma, Mom!" Family obligation and multiple pathways to success / Tekla Nicholas, Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick
Becoming American, becoming minority, getting ahead: the role of racial and ethnic status in the upward mobility of the children of immigrants / Philip Kasinitz
Horatio Alger lives in Brooklyn: extrafamily support, intrafamily dynamics, and socially neutral operating identities in exceptional mobility among children of Mexican immigrants / Robert Courtney Smith
Norms, values, and solidarity: a Durkheimian perspective on escaping from the inner city / Steven Elías Alvarado
No margin for error and its implications for future research / G. Cristina Mora
We are the people who love us and the stories we tell ourselves / Alejandro Rivas
New faces in new places: the changing geography of American immigration / reviewed by Peggy Levitt
Inheriting the city: the children of immigrants come of age / reviewed by Charles Hirschman.
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Exceptional outcomes : achievement in education and employment among children of immigrants. ISBN 9781412971232. Published by SAGE Publications in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
