2ND-GENERATION DECLINE - SCENARIOS FOR THE ECONOMIC AND ETHNIC FUTURES OF THE POST-1965 AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS
2ND-GENERATION DECLINE - SCENARIOS FOR THE ECONOMIC AND ETHNIC FUTURES OF THE POST-1965 AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS
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DOI：
10.1080/01419870.1992.9993740
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发表时间：
1992-04-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
GANS, HJ
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作者：
GANS, HJ
“第二代衰落”质疑当前美国人对几乎自动移民成功神话的信仰。在讨论1965年后移民子女未来的经济前景时，无论是积极的还是消极的，都提出了一种可能性，即大量贫困移民的子女，特别是黑皮肤移民的子女，可能无法在主流经济中找到工作。他们也不愿意--甚至不能--像他们的父母那样，从事低工资、长时间的“移民”工作。因此，他们（尤其是其中的年轻男性）可能会加入黑人和西班牙裔美国人的行列，显然是永久地被排除在主流经济之外。本文还涉及种族和经济条件之间的关系，在美国和继续相关的同化和文化适应过程中所描述的“直线理论”。这个问题，以及讨论的大多数其他问题，对于经历移民的欧洲国家，特别是那些经济陷入困境的国家来说，也可能是突出的。
'Second-generation decline' questions the current American faith in the myth of nearly automatic immigrant success. In discussing economic scenarios, positive and negative, for the future of the children of the post-1965 immigrants, the possibility is proposed that a significant number of the children of poor immigrants, especially dark-skinned ones, might not obtain jobs in the mainstream economy. Neither will they be willing - or even able - to take low-wage, long-hour 'immigrant' jobs, as their parents did. As a result, they (and young males among them particularly) may join blacks and Hispanics among those already excluded, apparently permanently, from the mainstream economy. The article also deals with the relations between ethnicity and economic conditions in the USA and with the continued relevance of the assimilation and acculturation processes described by 'straight-line theory'. This issue, as well as most others discussed, may also be salient for European countries experiencing immigration, especially those countries with troubled economies.