Children of Immigrants at School

Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at City University of New York and is the author of many books, including (with Victor Nee) Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration and Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America.Jennifer Holdaway is a Program Director at the Social Science Research Council, where her work has focused on migration and its interaction with processes of social change and stratification.

• Preface Richard Alba, Jennifer Holdaway, and Josh DeWind1 The Integration Imperative: Introduction Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway2 Educating the Children of Immigrants in Old and New Amsterdam Maurice Crul, Jennifer Holdaway, Helga A.G. de Valk, Norma Fuentes, and Mayida Zaal3 Different Systems, Similar Results: Youth of Immigrant Origin at School in California and Catalonia Margaret Gibson, Silvia Carrasco, Jordi Pamies, Maribel Ponferrada, and Anne Rios-Rojas4 Second-Generation Attainment and Inequality: Primary and Secondary Effects on Educational Outcomes in Britain and the United States Mary C. Waters, Anthony Heath, Van C. Tran, and Vikki Boliver5 How Similar Educational Inequalities Are Constructed in Two Different Systems, France and the United States: Why They Lead to Disparate Labor-Market Outcomes Richard Alba, Roxane Silberman, Dalia Abdelhady, Yael Brinbaum, and Amy Lutzvi 6 Promising Practices: Preparing Children of Immigrants in New York and Sweden Carola Suarez-Orozco, Margary Martin, Mikael Alexandersson, L. Janelle Dance, and Johannes Lunneblad7 The Children of Immigrants at School: Conclusions and Recommendations Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway Bibliography Contributors Index

"This tightly focused volume, based on a highly innovative comparison of the United States and Europe, provides an indispensable guide to understanding the problems of and prospects for the children of immigrants in different educational contexts. Full of valuable and stimulating insights, this is an important contribution to the comparative analysis of immigration." - Nancy Foner,author of In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration "Virtually all developed nations have become countries of immigration, and schools have become the crucible for assimilation in each society. The remarkable collection of studies assembled by Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway reveal how the children of immigrants are faring in schools of the United States, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden, and Spain. Their comparative lens reveals the barriers to successful incorporation shared in all settingssegregation, tracking, unequal school funding, concentrated disadvantage and advantaged parents reacting to preserve the status quo. But the institutional variety they uncover also reveals many promising pathways forward. The book is of value not only to scholars of immigration, but to anyone concerned with educating the disadvantaged." - Douglas Massey,author of Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times "[T]his exciting new volume presents compelling new ideas for researchers of immigrant youth to consider in developing measures of inequality, strategies for responding to inequality, and testing strategies for their effectiveness. Its lessons, and those of future research it will seed, can be implemented by considering the use of research in policy and practice. The book puts forth an exciting charge" (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies)