Immigrants, schooling and social mobility : does culture make a difference? /
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York :
Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.