The Immigrant Advantage in Adolescent Educational Expectations

Feliciano, Cynthia; Lanuza, Yader R.

doi:10.1111/imre.12183

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“…In contrast to white working class children, aspirations in these groups are high (Kao and Tienda 1998;Feliciano and Lanuza 2016). They are also more persistent and concrete than those of involuntary minorities, notably African Americans in the U.S. (Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey 1998;Raleigh and Kao 2010).…”

Section: The Mixed Successes Of Ethnic Minority Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Engzell¹

2018

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Why is it that children of immigrants often outdo their ethnic majority peers in educational aspirations yet struggle to keep pace with their achievements? This article advances the explanation that many immigrant communities, while positively selected on education, still have moderate absolute levels of schooling. Therefore, parents' education may imbue children with high expectations but not always the means to fulfill them. Swedish data on children of immigrants from over 100 countries of origin support this view: net of parents' absolute years of schooling, a high rank in the sending country benefits children's aspirations, attitudes, and educational choices, but not their test scores or school grades. The upshot is an "aspiration squeeze" where, to emulate their parents' relative place in the education distribution, children are left struggling against the momentous tide of educational expansion.

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Section: The Mixed Successes Of Ethnic Minority Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Feliciano and Lanuza (2016) suggest that outcomes at this age may better capture resources in the family of origin than later, when they often reflect the trajectory of study embarked upon (cf. Raleigh and Kao 2010).…”

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Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

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2018

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“…Youth in this study generally reported high educational aspirations, which may reflect sampling or social desirability bias and may not reflect the experiences of youth with low aspirations. Of note, high educational aspirations are not uncommon among Latino immigrant youth and youth of immigrant parents, despite legal and economic barriers to educational attainment [54], [55]. To further explore the relationship between aspirations and childbearing, a comparison of parenting and non-parenting youth or a longitudinal qualitative study of non-parenting youth would be informative.…”

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The Social Environment and Childbearing Expectations: Implications for Strength-Based Sexual Health Interventions for Latino Youth

vanDommelen-Gonzalez

Deardorff

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J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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In the United States, adolescent childbearing is disproportionately higher among Latino youth, a growing population facing substantial social exclusion. Exploring the relationship between the social environment and sexual health outcomes among Latino youth may offer insights into the development of novel interventions. In this study, Latino youth in partnerships were recruited from neighborhood venues in San Francisco and completed in-depth interviews. Youth reported a desire to complete higher education goals prior to starting a family to improve future opportunities and further personal development. Youth stated that social network members, family and partners, were supportive of their individual childbearing expectations. Social environment barriers tied to poverty, immigration status, and gang violence hindered educational attainment. Some differences were noted by gender and immigrant generation. Building on protective social ties and creating avenues in poor, urban neighborhoods for Latino youth to fully access educational opportunities may counter early childbearing and improve sexual health.

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“…That is, education is treated as a homogenous factor through which background determinants operate to create class reproduction, rather than as a pathway that predicts or drives educational outcomes or social mobility in its own right. Feliciano and Lanuza (2017) recently reaffirmed the idea that class reproduction is key in determining social mobility by arguing that "contextual attainment" explains much of the immigrant advantage, and that children of immigrants are not experiencing the remarkable intergenerational mobility that scholars suggest (Farley & Alba, 2002;Lee & Zhou, 2013). Feliciano and Lanuza (2017) looked at parental years of schooling (and SES) but their models did not incorporate educational pathway.…”

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Educational Pathway and Social Mobility in Children of Immigrants

Dunn¹

2019

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This paper looks at degree completion and wages of immigrants to understand the extent to which a student's chosen educational pathway limits his or her social mobility. Statistical modeling established the predictive strengths of key variables on educational pathway and statistical analysis is used to understand the relationship between educational pathway, degree completion, and wages. Findings show that educational pathway mediates many of the background determinants that previous research identified as key mechanisms for immigrant social mobility. Furthermore, findings also identify a significant "pathway wage penalty" despite degree completion. New immigration plus births to immigrants added more than 22 million people to the U.S. population in the last decade, equal to 80 percent of total population growth. Immigrants and their children now account for more than one in five public school students. The impact of immigrants and their children on the US population, and the education system, underscores the importance of research examining the immigrant experience.

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The Immigrant Advantage in Adolescent Educational Expectations

Cited by 108 publications

References 84 publications

Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

The Social Environment and Childbearing Expectations: Implications for Strength-Based Sexual Health Interventions for Latino Youth

Educational Pathway and Social Mobility in Children of Immigrants

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