GROWING UP AMERICAN: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants
GROWING UP AMERICAN: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants
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美国人的成长：移民儿童和移民儿童面临的挑战
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1997
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Min Zhou
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Min Zhou
自20世纪80年代以来，移民儿童和移民子女已经成为美国儿童人口中增长最快和最多样化的部分。然而，直到最近，学术界的注意力一直集中在成年移民身上，而忽视了他们的后代，在新的第二代的战略重要性与对其社会经济状况的了解之间产生了深刻的差距。本文的目的是将现有的研究，直接或间接地对儿童的移民经验和适应性的结果，并把这些研究纳入一个总体框架，可以促进更好地了解新的第二代。文章首先描述了新二代在接受语境中的变化趋势。然后，本文讨论了传统的理论观点移民适应的方式受到挑战和替代框架正在开发。第三，它审查了最近的研究的实证结果，并评估其对移民社会学的贡献。最后，它强调了先前研究的主要结论及其对未来研究的理论和实践意义。
Since the 1980s, immigrant children and children of immigrant parentage have become the fastest growing and the most extraordinarily diverse segment of America’s child population. Until the recent past, however, scholarly attention has focused on adult immigrants to the neglect of their offspring, creating a profound gap between the strategic importance of the new second generation and the knowledge about its socioeconomic circumstances. The purpose of this article is to pull together existing studies that bear directly or indirectly on children’s immigrant experiences and adaptational outcomes and to place these studies into a general framework that can facilitate a better understanding of the new second generation. The article first describes the changing trends in the contexts of the reception the new second generation has encountered. The article then discusses the ways in which conventional theoretical perspectives about immigrant adaptation are being challenged and alternative frameworks are being developed. Thirdly, it examines empirical findings from recent research and evaluates their contribution to the sociology of immigration. Finally, it highlights the main conclusions from prior research and their theoretical and practical implications for future studies.