Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Gerhard Sonnert, Gerald Holton

      Pages 1-5

3. Setting the Stage: The Historical Framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Questions of Success: Lessons from the Last Great Immigration

      • Nancy Foner

      Pages 9-21

   3. Conceptual Frameworks for Obstacles to Immigrant Advancement: Perceiving Immigrants in the Context of Societal Change

      • Reed Ueda

      Pages 23-34

4. Looking into the Past: Some Lessons from the “Second Wave”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Successful Young Refugees from Central Europe—Potential Lessons for Today

      • Gerhard Sonnert, Gerald Holton

      Pages 37-49

   3. The Second Wave and the American-Jewish Community

      • Nathan Glazer

      Pages 51-59

   4. Helping Young Immigrants/Refugees Become Entrepreneurs

      • Clark Claus Abt

      Pages 61-72

5. Recent and Current Waves of Young Immigrants and Refugees

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-74

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   2. After the Cold War: Comparing Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Youth in the 1980s to Today’s Young Refugees

      • Steven J. Gold

      Pages 75-88

   3. Second Generation Advantages: Recasting the Debate

      • Mary C. Waters

      Pages 89-100

   4. The Changing Role of Race and Ethnicity in the Incorporation of Refugees, Immigrants, and their Children

      • Philip Kasinitz

      Pages 101-111

   5. Young, Gifted, and West African: Transnational Migrants Growing Up in America

      • Marilyn Halter, Violet M. Showers Johnson

      Pages 113-127

   6. Mexican Immigrant Legalization and Naturalization and Children’s Economic Well-Being

      • Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, Mark A. Leach, James Bachmeier

      Pages 129-147

6. Educating Immigrants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Schooling Pathways of Newcomer Immigrant Youth

      • Carola Suárez-Orozco, Francisco X. Gaytán

      Pages 151-166

   3. The Importance of Raising Mexican American High School Graduation Rates

      • Joel Perlmann

      Pages 167-175

   4. Increasing Concrete Knowledge and Community Capacity: How CUNY and other Institutions Can Help Reshape Mexican Educational Futures in New York

      • Robert Smith

      Pages 177-188

7. Institutions Providing Aid to Young Immigrants and Refugees

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-190

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In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out.

• education
• Europe
• migrants
• migration
• research
• school
• schooling
• sun
• youth
• childhood studies

"It is frequently claimed that contemporary immigration to the United States - the Post-1965 Immigration Wave - is unprecedented in its magnitude, diversity, and challenge to America's absorptive capacity. The chapters in this volume, written by leading scholars and practitioners, show the many parallels of the present situation with America's largely successful integration of earlier waves of immigrants. The central conclusion is that the openness of America's educational and economic opportunities for young immigrants, and the native-born children of immigrants, has been the key to America's successful past and can be again in the future." - Charles Hirschman, University of Washington

"Displaying a brilliant balance between lessons learned from past immigrant experiences, deep analyses of current immigrant groups, and the role of various factors affecting integration like education, culture, policies, and organizations, this is an excellent read." - Contemporary Sociology

GERHARD SONNERT is Sociologist of Science and Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Harvard University, USA.
 
GERALD HOLTON is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, USA.

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