TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD: YOUTH FROM IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

尽管移民人数在过去30年里急剧上升，但关于新移民子女如何适应美国社会，我们几乎一无所知。这项提案中描述的项目是对美国最大的移民群体--墨西哥人、中美洲和南美洲人、菲律宾人和中国人--家庭中的青春期向成年期过渡的纵向研究。来自这些群体的土生土长的家庭中的年轻人，以及来自移民和具有欧洲背景的土生土长的家庭的年轻人也将参与这项研究。拟议项目的主要目标有三个：(1)评估这些青年从高中过渡到成年青年的教育和职业成就；(2)审查以前和现在的社会和文化因素在这些成就中发挥的作用，特别是：(A)青年；中学学业成绩；(B)家庭和同龄人的期望和支持；(C)青年自己的态度和行为；(D)他们利用移民社区内的就业网络；以及(E)他们对家庭的责任感；以及(3)探索青年的种族和社会经济背景在多大程度上缓和了社会和文化因素对其成就的影响。

Despite the dramatic rise in immigration in the past 30 years, virtually nothing is known about how well the children of new immigrants adapt to American society. The project described in this proposal is a longitudinal study of the transition to adulthood among adolescence within families from the largest immigrant groups in the United States: Mexican, Central and South Americans, Filipinos, and Chinese. Youths within native-born families from these groups will also participate in the study, as well those from both immigrant and native-born families with European backgrounds. The main goals of the proposed project are threefold: (1) to assess the educational and occupational attainments of these youths as they make the transition from high school to young adulthood; (2) to examine the roles played in these attainments by both prior and current social and cultural factors, particularly: (a) youths; academic achievement in secondary school; (b) the expectations and support of their families and peers; (c) the youths' own attitudes and behaviors; (d) their use of employment networks within their immigrant communities; and (e) their sense of obligation to their families; and (3) to explore the extent to which youth's ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds moderate the influence of the social and cultural factors on their attainments.