TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD: YOUTH FROM IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

尽管过去30年来移民人数急剧增加，但人们对新移民的子女如何适应美国社会几乎一无所知。本提案中描述的项目是对美国最大的移民群体（墨西哥人、中南美洲人、菲律宾人和中国人）家庭中青少年向成年过渡的纵向研究。来自这些群体的本土出生家庭的年轻人，以及来自移民和欧洲背景的本土出生家庭的年轻人也将参与这项研究。该项目的主要目标有三个：(1)评估这些青年从高中过渡到青年时期的教育和职业成就；(2)研究过去和现在的社会和文化因素在这些成就中所起的作用，特别是：(a)年轻人；中学学业成绩；(b)家人和同辈的期望和支持；(c)青少年自身的态度和行为；(d)利用其移民社区内的就业网络；(e)他们对家庭的责任感；(3)探讨民族背景和社会经济背景在多大程度上调节了社会文化因素对青少年学业成就的影响。

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.