Educational Attainment in Immigrant Families: Community Context And Family Background Book

Gonzalez examines how the experiences of immigrant parents in the labor markets of their country of origin and in the U.S. affect their children's schooling experiences. The author analyzes the differences in likelihood to enter post-secondary schooling among white, black, Latino and Asian children who have two parents who are immigrants, only one parent who is foreign-born or both parents who are native-born. She finds that children in homes with two parents who are immigrants go farther in school than those from the other two groups, but that the ethnicity of the two-immigrant-parent families is also a factor. The study offers a number of policy implications for educators and policy makers working with immigrant populations. Gonzalez works as a social scientist for RAND Corporation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR