No margin for error: Educational and occupational achievement among disadvantaged children of immigrants

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 620, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-36

  Portes, Alejandro ^a,b   Fernndez Kelly, Patricia ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton Center for Migration and Development

Author keywords

Dissonant and consonant acculturation; Immigrant second generation; Modes of incorporation; Segmented assimilation

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549120631     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716208322577     Document Type: Article

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