Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Immigration and Its Aftermath / Alejandro Portes
Chapter 2. Language and the Second Generation: Bilingualism Yesterday and Today / Alejandro Portes and Richard Schauffler
Chapter 3. Divided Fates: Immigrant Children and the New Assimilation / M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Richard Schauffler
Chapter 4. Studying Immigrant Adaptation from the 1990 Population Census: From Generational Comparisons to the Process of "Becoming American" / Charles Hirschman
Chapter 5. Today's Second Generation: Evidence from the 1990 Census / Leif Jensen and Yoshimi Chitose
Chapter 6. The Households of Children of Immigrants in South Florida: An Exploratory Study of Extended Family Arrangements / Lisandro Perez
Chapter 7. The Crucible Within: Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem, and Segmented Assimilation Among Children of Immigrants / Ruben G. Rumbaut
Chapter 8. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City / Mary C. Waters
Chapter 9. Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans / Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III
References
Index