Comparisons of the success of racial minority immigrant offspring in the United States, Canada and Australia |
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Authors: | Jeffrey G Reitz Heather ZhangNaoko Hawkins |
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Institution: | a Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3K7 b Department of Sociology, McGill University, Room 713 Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T7 c Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2J4 |
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Abstract: | The educational, occupational and income success of the racial minority immigrant offspring is very similar for many immigrant origins groups in the United States, Canada and Australia. An analysis based on merged files of Current Population Surveys for the United States for the period 1995-2007, and the 2001 Censuses of Canada and Australia, and taking account of urban areas of immigrant settlement, reveals common patterns of high achievement for the Chinese and South Asian second generation, less for other Asian origins, and still less for those of Afro-Caribbean black origins. Relatively lower entry statuses for these immigrant groups in the US are eliminated for the second generation, indicating they experience stronger upward inter-generational mobility. As well, ‘segmented assimilation’ suggesting downward assimilation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants into an urban underclass in the US, also receives little support. |
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Keywords: | Second-generation immigrants Immigrants Economic integration Inter-generational mobility Segmented assimilation Cross-national comparison Racial minorities |
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