“Here's Your Diploma, Mom!” Family Obligation and Multiple Pathways to Success

Nicholas, Tekla; Stepick, Alex; Stepick, Carol Dutton

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“…Socioeconomic trajectories may take various shapes and, as confirmed in our descriptive analysis above, are more often uneven, characterised by ups and downs for children of immigrants than for the majority population (Nicholas et al 2008;Schnell et al 2013). Within this section, we therefore focus on two uneven trajectories: upward versus downward socioeconomic trajectories.…”

Section: Climbers Versus Declining Achieverssupporting

confidence: 56%

Getting Ahead: Educational and Occupational Trajectories of the ‘New’ Second-Generation in Switzerland

Schnell

Fibbi

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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This paper examines the educational and occupational trajectories among second-generation immigrants of Turkish and Western-Balkan origin in Switzerland. Using a representative sample of 1107 respondents in two Swiss urban areas, the findings reveal that descendants of immigrants have reduced chances to follow a constant successful path from education to occupation, which is mainly determined by parental socioeconomic status. However, young adults of Turkish and Western Balkan origin are significantly more often upward mobile than the majority group, a pattern that is robust against a range of controls. We find parental monitoring and family cohesion to be positively related with upward mobility. Moreover, secondgeneration immigrants are more likely to be upwardly mobile than starting high in the education system but subsequently moving downwards-a profile that is more frequent among Swiss origin youth. Our multivariate results indicate that a lack of intense parent-child communication and perceived discrimination in school are affecting this downward process.

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Section: Climbers Versus Declining Achieverssupporting

confidence: 56%

Getting Ahead: Educational and Occupational Trajectories of the ‘New’ Second-Generation in Switzerland

Schnell

Fibbi

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…A third potential explanation for immigrant success is that immigrant families may select pathways through the school years that have more potential for children’s later success in the transition to adulthood than do nonimmigrant families (Nicholas, Stepick & Stepick, 2008). Recent research suggests that children of immigrants, particularly those from Mexico, experience an initial disadvantage in readiness for school (Crosnoe & Turley, 2011), a gap that diminishes over the elementary school years (Glick & Hohmann-Marriott, 2007) such that, by high school, immigrant students are higher achievers than their nonimmigrant peers (Fuligni, 1997; Kao & Tienda, 1995; Pong & Landale, 2012).…”

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How do they do it? The immigrant paradox in the transition to adulthood

Hofferth

Moon

2016

Social Science Research

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How do children of immigrants consistently outperform children of native-born U.S. parents, in spite of lower familial resources? Using the Transition to Adulthood Study of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, children of immigrant and native-born parents completing high school in 2005–13 are followed they move into the young adult years. Children of immigrants are more likely to enroll in college, be employed or in school, and less likely to have a criminal record as young adults or to have a child than children of nonimmigrants. This is not a result of immigrant parentage but due primarily to greater parental educational expectations; immigrants enjoy a differential return to parental expectations for boys’ college enrollment as well. Reading skills and activity patterns in the secondary school years also contribute to better outcomes. Children of immigrants are better able to translate their reading comprehension skills to college or employment later on.

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“…Research shows that educational resources are a decisive factor in producing good academic performance (Buchmann and Hannum 2001). These resources include intelligence, material resources (Brown and Park 2002), cultural capital (DiMaggio 1982), information (Kim and Schneider 2005), social connections (Coleman 1988), educational aspirations, and perseverance (Nicholas et al 2008). Students can access these resources based on their social ties but do so to a very different extent depending on the amount available.…”

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Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

Fung

2015

J. Chin. Sociol.

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This qualitative study looked at network diversity and educational attainment. In the summer of 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 undergraduate students from two of the most prestigious universities in China-Peking University and Tsinghua University. Twenty respondents came from a rural background and the other 10 were from urban areas. It was found that the educational support networks of the rural students were generally larger than those of their urban peers. This is because they faced more barriers than the urban students and their network members were less able to provide them with resources, so they needed more supporters in their journey to elite colleges. The findings indicate that rural students do not get enough help from the state and therefore have to rely on their own resources to achieve academic mobility.

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“Here's Your Diploma, Mom!” Family Obligation and Multiple Pathways to Success

Abstract: immigrant and refugee populations for the past twenty-five years, she develops participatory research with community, service, and labor organizations campaigning for social and economic justice for Florida's working men and women and their families and communities.

Cited by 23 publications

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Getting Ahead: Educational and Occupational Trajectories of the ‘New’ Second-Generation in Switzerland

Getting Ahead: Educational and Occupational Trajectories of the ‘New’ Second-Generation in Switzerland

How do they do it? The immigrant paradox in the transition to adulthood

Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

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