Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Role of Culture in Explanations of Social Mobility

   • Hans Vermeulen

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3. Introduction: The Persistence of Culture versus Structure in Recent Work. The Case of Modes of Incorporation

   • Joel Perlmann

   Pages 22-33

4. What Colour ‘Success’? Distorting Value in Studies of Ethnic Entrepreneurship*

   • Pnina Werbner

   Pages 34-60

5. The Cultural Fallacy in Studies of Racial and Ethnic Mobility

   • Stephen Steinberg

   Pages 61-71

6. Situational and Structural Rationales for the School Performance of Immigrant Youth. Three Cases

   • Margaret A. Gibson

   Pages 72-102

7. What the Jews Brought. East-European Jewish Immigration to the United States, c. 1900

   • Joel Perlmann

   Pages 103-123

8. Peasantry and Trading Diaspora. Differential Social Mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States

   • Hans Vermeulen, Tijno Venema

   Pages 124-149

9. The Internationalization of Black Culture. A Comparison of Lower-class Youth in Brazil and the Netherlands

   • Livio Sansone

   Pages 150-183

10. Creoles and Hindustanis. Patterns of Social Mobility in Two Surinamese Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands

    • Mies van Niekerk

    Pages 184-205

11. Does Culture Explain? Understanding Differences in School Attainment between Iberian and Turkish Youth in the Netherlands

    • Flip Lindo

    Pages 206-224

12. Breaking the Circle of Disadvantage. Social Mobility of Second-Generation Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands

    • Maurice Crul

    Pages 225-244

13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-257

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Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity - the opposition between culture and structure - and presents a collection of essays that transcend simplistic either/or approaches to this issue. The contributors explore educational and economic mobility of immigrant groups in Europe and America.

• entrepreneur
• entrepreneurship
• migration
• mobility

• Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Hans Vermeulen

• Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, USA

  Joel Perlmann

HANS VERMEULEN is co-Director of Research at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam. He has been an assistant expert of UNESCO in Athens and Associate Professor at the Departments of Anthropology of the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. He has published extensively on migration and ethnicity. His most recent publication is The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness (co-edited with C.Govers, 1997).

JOEL PERLMANN is Senior Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and Levy Institute Research Professor. He is the author of Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure Among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935.

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