Racial-Ethnic Self-Schemas and Segmented Assimilation: Identity and the Academic Achievement of Hispanic Youth*
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چکیده
United States is once again experiencing record levels of immigration. As with European immigrants arriving a century ago, concerns have been raised about the ultimate success of the new arrivals from Latin America and Asia (Suárez-Orozco and Suárez-Orozco 2001). Of particular concern are future prospects for children of immigrants who arrive with few human-capital resources and settle in racially segregated, low-income neighborhoods with few community resources (Portes and Rumbaut 2001). Will acculturation lead to upward economic mobility for this growing population of immigrant youth, as it did for immigrant youth a century ago? Or will cultural assimilation into a bifurcated society lead to long-term economic and social marginalization?
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