Synopses & Reviews
Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity of the opposition between culture and structure, and presents a collection of essays that transcend simplistic either/or approaches to this issue. The contributions explore educational and economic mobility of immigrant groups in Europe and America.
Review
“...a welcoming addition to the wealth of literature on immigration and immigrant adaptation.” —
International Migration Review“...an extremely useful and timely addition to the literature on culture and school success...” —Anthropology and Education Quarterly
About the Author
Hans Vermeulen is an anthropologist and Co-director of Research of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Joel Perlmann is Senior Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and Levy Institute Research Professor at the College.
Table of Contents
The Role of Culture in Explanations of Social Mobility--Hans Vermeulen * The Persistence of Culture versus Structure in Recent Work: The Case of Modes of Incorporation--Joel Perlmann * What Color 'Success'?: Distorting Value in Studies of Ethnic Entrepreneurship--Pnina Werbner * The Cultural Fallacy in Studies of Racial and Ethnic Mobility--Stephen Steinberg * Situational and Structural Rationales for the School Performance of Immigrant Youth: Three Cases--Margaret A. Gibson * What the Jews Brought: East-European Jewish Immigration to the United States, ca. 1900--Joel Perlmann * Peasantry and Trading Diaspora: Differential Social Mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States--Hans Vermeulen & Tijno Venema * The Internationalization of Black Culture: A Comparison of Lower-Class Youth in Brazil and the Netherlands--Livio Sansone * Creoles and Hindustanis. Patterns of Social Mobility in Two Surinamese Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands--Mies van Niekerk * Does Culture Explain?: Understanding Differences in School Attainment between Iberian and Turkish Youth in the Netherlands--Flip Lindo * Breaking the Circle of Disadvantage: Social Mobility of Second-GenerationMoroccans and Turks in the Netherlands--Maurice Crul