Immigrants, schooling, and social mobility

Immigrants, schooling, and social mobility: does culture make a difference?

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Immigrants, schooling, and social mobility : does culture make a difference? / edited by Hans Vermeulen,... and Joel Perlmann,....

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:cop. 2000.

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Notes

Papers originated from the conference "Does culture make a difference?" held in Amsterdam in Nov. 1996.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 vol. (X-257 p.) : : ill. ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0333793420 (MacMillan), 9780333793428 (MacMillan), 0333793439 (MacMillan), 9780333793435 (MacMillan), 0312234880 (St. Martin's), 9780312234881 (St. Martin's)
  • oclc:ocn690347446
  • Dewey Decimal:305.90691

Table of Contents

Introduction: the role of culture in explanations of social mobility / Hans Vermeulen -- Introduction: the persistence of culture versus structure in recent work. The case of modes of incorporation / Joel Perlmann -- What colour "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, c. 1900 / Joel Perlmann -- Peasantry and trading diaspora. Differential social mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States / Hans Vermeulen and 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. So…

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Subjects

Actes de congrès Anthropologie de l'éducation Anthropologie et éducation -- Congrès Conference papers and proceedings Educational anthropology Educational anthropology -- Congresses Europe Immigrants -- Education Immigrants -- Education -- Europe Immigrants -- Education -- United States Immigrants -- Social conditions Immigrants -- Social conditions. -- Eur… Immigrants -- Social conditions. -- Uni… Immigrés -- Conditions sociales. -- Éta… Immigrés -- Conditions sociales. -- Eur… Immigrés -- Éducation Immigrés -- Éducation -- États-Unis Immigrés -- Éducation -- Europe Mobilité sociale Mobilité sociale -- Congrès

Writers

Perlmann, Joel Vermeulen, Hans

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