Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility: Does Culture Make a Difference?

ISBN-13: 9780312234881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 257 str.

Hans Vermeulen; Joel Perlmann

Opis

Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity of the opposition between culture and structure, and presents a collection of essays that transcend simplistic either/or approaches to this issue. The contributions explore educational and economic mobility of immigrant groups in Europe and America.

O autorze

Hans Vermeulen is an anthropologist and Co-director of Research of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Joel Perlmann is Senior Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and Levy Institute Research Professor at the College.