Next Generation

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.Mary C. Waters is M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and author of many books, including Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities and Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age.

• Acknowledgments 1 Dimensions of Second-Generation Incorporation 2 Legalization and Naturalization Trajectories among Mexican Immigrants and Their Implications for the Second Generation 3 Early Childhood Education Programs 4 The Mexican American Second Generation in Census 2000: Education and Earnings 5 Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment 6 School Qualifications of Children of Immigrant Descent in Switzerland 7 Ethnic Community, Urban Economy, and Second-Generation Attainment 8 The Second Generation in the German Labor Market 9 Capitals, Ethnic Identity, and Educational Qualifications 10 National and Urban Contexts for the Integration of the Second Generation in the United States and Canada 11 "I Will Never Deliver Chinese Food" 12 Black Identities and the Second Generation: Afro-Caribbeans in Britain and the United States 13 How Do Educational Systems Integrate? Integration of Second-Generation Turks in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Austria 14 The Employment of Second Generations in France References About the Contributors Index

"The attention to immigrants' changing migration and naturalization statuses is laudable and should encourage scholars...to carefully consider the diverse legal statuses of immigrants both upon and after arrival to the United States." (International Journal of Comparative Sociology) "The Next Generation...provide[s] key insights into the forces shaping outcomes for the future generations of native-born immigrants and the societies in which they live." - Kristen Remington Lucken (Nordic Journal of Migration Research)