Immigrants, schooling and social mobility : does culture make a difference /
edited by Hans Vermeulen and Joel Perlmann.
- x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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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