Segmented assimilation: Issues, controversies, and recent research on the new second generation

International Migration Review

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 975-1008

  Zhou, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; CULTURAL ASSIMILATION; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS; THEORY;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY SIZE; GENERATIONS; IMMIGRANTS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION THEORY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ACCULTURATION; AMERICAS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GENERATIONS; IMMIGRANTS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION THEORY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; THEORETICAL STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; AMERICAS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031429568     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2547421     Document Type: Article

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