TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vermeulen,Hans
AU  - Perlmann,Joel
TI  - Immigrants, schooling and social mobility: does culture make a difference 
SN  - 0333793420
AV  - LC3705 .I52 2000
U1  - 305.90691 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Education
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Educational anthropology
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - Europe
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 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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