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Appearance. hide. 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 ...
The term second-generation immigrant attracts criticism due to it being an oxymoron. Namely, critics say, a "second-generation immigrant" is not an immigrant, since being "second-generation" means that the person is born in the country and the person's parents are the immigrants in question. Generation labeling immigrants is further complicated ...
Nisei. Nisei (二世, "second generation") is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei). The Nisei are considered the second generation and the grandchildren of the Japanese-born immigrants ...
Income. In 2019, the median household income for U.S.-born Vietnamese Americans was $82,400 [7] As a relatively-recent immigrant group, most Vietnamese Americans are either first or second generation Americans. As many as one million people five years of age and older speak Vietnamese at home, making it the fifth-most-spoken language in the U.S.
Issei (一世, "first generation") are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America. The term is used mostly by ethnic Japanese. Issei are born in Japan; their children born in the new country are nisei (ni, "two", plus sei, "generation"); and their grandchildren are sansei (san, "three", plus sei, "generation").
Emigration from Cuba began to slow down in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, second-generation Cuban Americans increasingly moved out of urban enclaves like Little Havana and settled in suburban areas like Westchester, while those urban areas came to be inhabited by immigrants from other Latin American nations. [36]
Sansei. Sansei (三世, "third generation") is a Japanese and North American English term [1] used in parts of the world (mainly in South America and North America) to refer to the children of children born to ethnically Japanese emigrants (Issei) in a new country of residence, outside of Japan. The nisei are considered the second generation ...
Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawaiʻi: From the Land of the Morning Calm to Hawaiʻi Nei (Lexington Books, 2015). Park, In Young, and Marquisha Lawrence Scott. "Understanding the Ethnic Self: A Qualitative Study of 1.5 Generation Korean American Immigrants" Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 9#2 (2022), pp. 171–98. online