News Immigration Immigrants’ Children Find Better Lives, Study Shows
| Immigrants’ Children Find Better Lives, Study Shows |
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| Sunday, 18 May 2008 | |
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By SEWELL CHAN A decade-long study of adult children of immigrants to the New York region has concluded that they are rapidly entering the mainstream and doing better than their parents in terms of education and earnings — even outperforming native-born Americans in many cases. But the study also warned of problems that could block upward mobility for members of the “second generation,” including persistent poverty and poor school performance among Dominicans and racial discrimination against black immigrants from the Caribbean. The results of the $2 million study are detailed in “Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age,” published this month by Harvard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation, which finances social science research. READ MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/nyregion/18immigrants.html?_r=1&oref=slogin               |
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