Immigrants, schooling and social mobility : does culture make a difference / edited by Hans Vermeulen and Joel Perlmann.
Material type: TextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 2000Description: x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0333793420
- 9780333793428
- 0333793439
- 9780333793435
- 305.90691 21
- 306.43 21
- LC3705 .I52 2000
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 305.90691 IMM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A213800B |
Papers originated from the conference "Does culture make a difference?" held in Amsterdam in Nov. 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Social mobility of second-generation Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands / Maurice Crul.
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