Who They Were There: Immigrants' Educational Selectivity and Their Children's Educational Attainment

Ichou, Mathieu

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“…Following the studies of Feliciano (2005bFeliciano ( , 2006 and Ichou (2014), this part of the analysis seeks to explain differences within the population children of immigrants, rather than vis-à-vis the majority (cf. Harris, Jamison, and Trujillo 2008;Levels, Dronkers, and Kraaykamp 2008).…”

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“…Information comes from UN Demographic Yearbooks, UNESCO Statistical Yearbooks, and national statistical publications with interpolation for missing years. It is arguably the most comprehensive source of such data available, and has been used in previous studies of educational selectivity (Ichou 2014;Feliciano and Lanuza 2017).…”

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“…Feliciano hypothesized that "immigrants who were of high status in the home country may facilitate the achievement of the next generation in order to attain a similar class position " (2005b:844) and that "identities of highly educationally select immigrant groups may be based on a sense that they are entitled to mainstream success" (2006:295-96). Similarly, Ichou (2014) mentions "subjective social status" as one transmission channel. Following the idea that migrants self-select on ambition (Jasso and Rosenzweig 2006;Portes and Rumbaut 2006), selectivity may also capture a personality that propelled parents to a given level of education.…”

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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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2018

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“…Fortunately, the most recent data on U.S. immigrant families (such as those used in this article) now enable researchers to include additional controls for the aptitudes, values, and resources hypothesized to drive the different transmission rates across ethnic groups. Beyond the United States, a promising new line of research posits using measures of "relative educational attainments," or the educational position of the immigrant in the distribution of the country of origin (Ichou 2014), as a more universal control for parental background when making adjusted comparisons of second-generation outcomes.…”

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From Parent to Child? Transmission of Educational Attainment Within Immigrant Families: Methodological Considerations

Luthra

Soehl

2015

Demography

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One in five U.S. residents under the age of 18 has at least one foreign-born parent. Given the large proportion of immigrants with very low levels of schooling, the strength of the intergenerational transmission of education between immigrant parent and child has important repercussions for the future of social stratification in the United States. We find that the educational transmission process between parent and child is much weaker in immigrant families than in native families and, among immigrants, differs significantly across national origins. We demonstrate how this variation causes a substantial overestimation of the importance of parental education in immigrant families in studies that use aggregate data. We also show that the common practice of "controlling" for family human capital using parental years of schooling is problematic when comparing families from different origin countries and especially when comparing native and immigrant families. We link these findings to analytical and empirical distinctions between group-and individual-level processes in intergenerational transmission.

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“…An increasing body of research in economics and sociology is concerned with identifying the extent to which migrants represent a selected sample of those in the country of origin (e.g. Dustmann, Fadlon, and Weiss 2011;Ichou 2014), yet empirical studies tend to lack precise comparators for the counterfactual non-migrant. These limitations stem from a paucity of studies that incorporate comparison with non-migrants and return migrants in countries of origin and which trace processes of intergenerational transmission across migrants over multiple generations.…”

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2,000 Families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study

Güveli

Ganzeboom

Baykara-Krumme

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Despite recent advances, critical areas in the analysis of European migration remain underdeveloped. We have only a limited understanding of the consequences of migration for migrants and their descendants, relative to staying behind; and our insights of intergenerational transmission is limited to two generations of those living in the destination countries. These limitations stem from a paucity of studies that incorporate comparison with nonmigrants -and return migrants -in countries of origin and which trace processes of intergenerational transmission over multiple generations. This paper outlines the theoretical and methodological discussions in the field, design and data of the 2,000 Families study. The study comprises almost 50,000 members of migrant and non-migrant Turkish families across three family generations, living in Turkey and eight European countries. We provide indicative findings from the study, framed within a theoretical perspective of "dissimilation" from origins, and reflect on its potential for future migration research.

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Who They Were There: Immigrants' Educational Selectivity and Their Children's Educational Attainment

Cited by 175 publications

References 47 publications

Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

From Parent to Child? Transmission of Educational Attainment Within Immigrant Families: Methodological Considerations

2,000 Families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study

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