PIRE: The Children of Immigrants in Schools

国际研究与教育伙伴关系（PIRE）将五所美国大学的研究人员与五所欧洲大学的研究人员联系起来，研究移民儿童在学校成功或失败的驱动因素，最终导致移民社区融入社会。位于奥尔巴尼的纽约州立大学（SUNY）的理查德·阿尔巴（Richard Alba）领导着一个由五个双边小组组成的网络小组，这些小组被匹配起来调查核心问题的具体方面。美国研究生和博士后研究人员有广泛的机会与国际合作伙伴机构的高级研究人员一起工作。研究结果应该提高我们对特殊教育安排和过程的认识，以及国家教育系统的关键差异如何影响移民青年的融合。五个主要团队和他们的研究重点是：1)纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校的Richard Alba和巴黎国家科学研究中心的Roxane Silberman，他们将研究法国和美国从教育系统到劳动力市场的转变；2)纽约城市大学的Jennifer Holdaway和阿姆斯特丹大学的Maurice Crul，他们将研究纽约和阿姆斯特丹的学校资金和跟踪制度安排；3)哈佛大学的玛丽·沃特斯（Mary Waters）和牛津大学的安东尼·希思（Anthony Heath），他们将研究英国和美国的高等教育以及时机、差异化和第二次机会的影响；4)纽约大学的Carola Suarez-Orozco和瑞典哥德堡大学的Mikael Alexandersson，他们将为不同移民血统的孩子研究创新的、有前途的实践学校；5)加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的玛格丽特·吉布森和西班牙巴塞罗那自治大学的西尔维娅·卡拉斯科。第五个小组将继续研究社会、文化和语言的界限，以及移民儿童在加州和加泰罗尼亚必须跨越的社会关系。团队整合将通过社会科学研究理事会国际移民项目组织的一系列网络和培训活动来完成。这些活动应该加深高级和初级学者与他们的欧洲伙伴之间的联系，同时使他们能够分享和建立他们的学科、区域和专题专门知识。这个跨学科的项目涵盖了社会学、政治学、人类学、心理学和教育学等领域，通过使美国和欧洲的专家能够在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域结合互补的人才和共享研究资源，实现了推进科学知识的计划目标。更广泛的影响包括发展成功的国际合作新模式，培养一批受过培训的美国初级研究人员在移民研究领域进行跨国比较研究。

This Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) links researchers from five U.S. universities with five European counterparts to examine the drivers of success or failure of immigrant children in schools which ultimately lead to incorporation of immigrant communities into society. Richard Alba of State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany heads what may be called a networked group of five-bilateral teams that are matched to investigate specific aspects of the central question. The combined research effort is complemented by a program of research training for U.S. graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, who have extensive opportunities to work with senior investigators at institutions of the international partners. Results should improve our knowledge of particular educational arrangements and processes as well as how the key differences in national education systems shape the integration of immigrant youth.The five principal teams and their research focus are: 1) Richard Alba of SUNY Albany with Roxane Silberman of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, who will study the transition from the education system to the labor market in France and the U.S.; 2) Jennifer Holdaway of City University of New York with Maurice Crul of the University of Amsterdam, who will examine school funding and institutional arrangements for tracking in New York and Amsterdam; 3) Mary Waters of Harvard University with Anthony Heath of Oxford University, who will look at post-secondary education and the impact of timing, differentiation, and second chances in Great Britain and the U.S.; 4) Carola Suarez-Orozco of New York University and Mikael Alexandersson of Goteborg University, Sweden, who will study innovative, promising practice schools for children of diverse immigrant origins; and 5) Margaret Gibson of the University of California-Santa Cruz and partner Silvia Carrasco of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. This fifth team will pursue research on social, cultural and linguistic boundaries and the social relations that immigrant children must traverse in California and Catalonia. Team integration will be accomplished through a series of networking and training activities organized by the International Migrant Program of the Social Science Research Council. Such activities should deepen links between senior and junior scholars and their European partners while enabling them to share and build upon their disciplinary, regional, and topical expertise.This interdisciplinary PIRE, covering the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology and education, fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include development of a new model for successful international collaboration and a cohort of junior U.S. researchers trained to conduct cross-national comparative research in the field of migration studies.