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As you enter your second half of life, overcoming the trauma of being the second generation of immigrants is not only possible but essential. You can thrive by embracing repressed emotions...
Second-generation immigrants in the United States are individuals born and raised in the United States who have at least one foreign-born parent. [1] Although the term is an oxymoron which is often used ambiguously, this definition is cited by major research centers including the United States Census Bureau and the Pew Research Center. [1] [2]
Second-generation immigrants are born in the United States but have parents who are born abroad. The immigrant-origin child population has grown to nearly 20 million and now make up approximately 27% of the U.S. child population.
Second-generation Americans—the 20 million adult U.S.-born children of immigrants—are substantially better off than immigrants themselves on key measures of socioeconomic attainment, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
Once Professor Abramitzky and Professor Boustan found abundant evidence of second-generation immigrants’ upward mobility, they tried to figure out why those children did so well.
Children who arrive in their adolescent years (ages 14–17) are referred to as 1.25 generation immigrants because their experiences are closer to the first generation of adult immigrants than to the native born second generation.
The U.S.-born children of immigrants (second-generation Americans) make up 12% of the nation’s population. By 2050, immigrants and their children could account for 19% and 18% of the population, respectively, according to Pew Research Center projections .
ARTICLE: Members of the second generation are more likely to finish college than both the foreign born and those who are third generation and higher. David Dixon looks at general social and demographic characteristics of the second generation in the United States.
The authors explore the world of second-generation youth, looking at patterns of parent-child conflict and cohesion within immigrant families, the role of peer groups and school subcultures, the factors that affect the children's academic achievement, and much more.
This Special Issue, which includes a look back at the children of the last great wave of immigrants, examines trends among the new second generation, models of assimilation, and methods for learning more about adult children of immigrants to the U.S.