479 - Section on International Migration Paper Session. Culture and Achievement among the Children of Immigrants

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Culture is often deployed by pundits to explain both exceptional and poor educational and occupational outcomes among the children of immigrants. Immigration researchers, however, have rejected this simplistic framing, and have argued that group outcomes are the result of a host of factors such as immigrant selectivity, contexts of reception, ethnic capital, legal status, and a group’s position in the ethnoracial hierarchy. This panel seeks to critically examine the role of culture, as well as other factors, that help to explain the differential levels of achievement in school and the workplace among children of immigrants. Papers with a national or international focus are welcome

Sub Unit

• Section on International Migration / Culture and Achievement among the Children of Immigrants

Session Organizer

• Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University

Presider

• Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University

Individual Presentations

• Citizen Outsider: Cultural Citizenship and Children of North African Immigrants in France - Jean Beaman, Purdue University

• Narrative of Need: How and Why Second-Generation Filipino-Americans Engage in Transnational Economic Connections - Armand Rene Gutierrez, University of Callifornia-San Diego

• Socioeconomic Progress without Cultural Integration: Second-generation Muslim Americans - Mehdi Bozorgmehr, The Graduate Center and City College, CUNY; Eric Ketcham, CUNY Graduate Center