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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 2000Description: x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0333793420
  • 9780333793428
  • 0333793439
  • 9780333793435
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.90691 21
  • 306.43 21
LOC classification:
  • LC3705 .I52 2000
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. Social mobility of second-generation Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands / Maurice Crul.
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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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