عنوان

Immigrants, schooling, and social mobility :

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0312234880

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Title Proper

Immigrants, schooling, and social mobility :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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does culture make a difference? /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Hans Vermeulen and Joel Perlmann

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 257 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Papers originated from the conference "Does culture make a difference?" held in Amsterdam in Nov. 1996

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Text of Note

Introduction: the role of culture in explanations of social mobility / Hans Vermeulen -- Introduction: the persistence of culture versus structure in recent work. The case of modes of incorporation / Joel Perlmann -- What colour "success"? Distorting value in studies of ethnic entrepreneurship / Pnina Werbner -- The cultural fallacy in studies of racial and ethnic mobility / Stephen Steinberg -- Situational and structural rationales for the school performance of immigrant youth. Three cases / Margaret A. Gibson -- What the Jews brought. East-European Jewish immigration to the United States, c. 1900 / Joel Perlmann -- Peasantry and trading diaspora. Differential social mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States / Hans Vermeulen and Tijno Venema -- The internationalization of Black culture. A comparison of lower-class youth in Brazil and the Netherlands / Livio Sansone -- Creoles and Hindustanis. Patterns of social mobility in two Surinamese immigrant groups in the Netherlands / Mies van Niekerk -- Does culture explain? Understanding differences in school attainment between Iberian and Turkish youth in the Netherlands / Flip Lindo -- Breaking the circle of disadvantage. Social mobility of second-generation Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands / Maurice Crul

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Educational anthropology, Congresses

Immigrants-- Education-- Social aspects, Congresses

Social mobility, Congresses

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Book number

Perlmann, Joel

Vermeulen, Hans

Date of Transaction

20010130155303.0

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[Book]

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