Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility: Does Culture Make a Difference?

by NA NA, Joel Perlmann (Editor)

Overview

Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity of the opposition between culture and structure, and presents a collection of essays that transcend simplistic either/or approaches to this issue. The contributions explore educational and economic mobility of immigrant groups in Europe and America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312234881
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/23/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Hans Vermeulen is an anthropologist and Co-director of Research of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Joel Perlmann is Senior Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and Levy Institute Research Professor at the College.

Table of Contents

The Role of Culture in Explanations of Social Mobility--Hans Vermeulen
• The Persistence of Culture versus Structure in Recent Work: The Case of Modes of Incorporation--Joel Perlmann
• What Color '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, ca. 1900--Joel Perlmann
• Peasantry and Trading Diaspora: Differential Social Mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States--Hans Vermeulen & 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

Editorial Reviews

“...a welcoming addition to the wealth of literature on immigration and immigrant adaptation.” —International Migration Review

“...an extremely useful and timely addition to the literature on culture and school success...” —Anthropology and Education Quarterly

From the Publisher

...a welcoming addition to the wealth of literature on immigration and immigrant adaptation.

...a welcoming addition to the wealth of literature on immigration and immigrant adaptation.

International Migration Review

An extremely useful and timely addition to the literature on culture and school success...

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Anthropologists and other social scientists seek that fine line between using cultural traits as factors for social success and, allowing such use to slip into moral judgements about success and failure. Their 11 essays, most from a November 1996 conference in Amsterdam, discuss such topics as the persistence of culture versus structure in recent work, the cultural fallacy in studies of racial and ethnic mobility, and understanding differences in school attainment between Iberian and Turkish youth in the Netherlands. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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