The adaptation of migrant children

Future of Children

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 219-246

  Portes, Alejandro ^a   Rivas, Alejandro ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953084976     PISSN: 10548289     EISSN: 15501558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/foc.2011.0004     Document Type: Article

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107. These results are drawn from two recent papers: Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly, and William Haller, "The Adaptation of the Immigrant Second Generation in America: A Theoretical Overview and Recent Evidence," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35, no. 7 (2009): 1077-1104.
108. William Haller, Alejandro Portes, and Scott M. Lynch, "Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation," Social Forces (forthcoming, 2011).
109. Telles and Ortiz, Generations of Exclusion (see note 14).
110. Ibid., p. 132.
111. Governmental resettlement assistance has improved the adaptation of middle-class groups escaping communist regimes, leading, in turn, to positive outcomes in the second generation, as reflected in the results presented previously for Cuban Americans, mostly the offspring of such refugees.
112. See Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (University of California Press, 1993).
113. Rubén G. Rumbaut and Golnaz Komaie, "Immigration and Adult Transitions," Future of Children 20, no. 1 (2010): 39-63.
114. Ibid., pp. 55-56.
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