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No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational Achievement among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants

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  • Alejandro Portes

    (Princeton University)

  • Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

    (Princeton University)

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Immigration since the 1960s has transformed the nation. Today, close to one-fourth of the American population is of immigrant stock - immigrants themselves or children of immigrants. The same rough proportion holds among young Americans, aged 18 or younger. Children of immigrants and immigrant children exceed 30 million today and are, by far, the fastest growing component of this population. Hence, their destiny as they reach adulthood and seek to integrate socially and economically into the mainstream is more than of academic interest.

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  • Alejandro Portes & Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, 2006. "No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational Achievement among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants," Working Papers 330, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Migration and Development..
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality

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