Determinants of Education and Mobility among Second- Generation Mexican-Americans

这是一项对纽约市第二代墨西哥裔美国人的教育和工作流动性决定因素的研究。移民子女，即“第二代”的命运，是一个日益重要的学术和公共政策话题。这项研究将有助于我们通过民族志和访谈研究来了解第二代人的命运，该研究考虑了性别、市场定位、种族认同和社会组织对他们的教育和职业流动模式的影响。这项研究基于早先对来自墨西哥蒂库阿尼镇的移民的人种学研究，目前的项目将试图理解几个令人费解的人种学发现，包括：为什么第二代蒂川恩斯女性更有可能在主流经济中向上流动，上大学并获得专业工作，而男性更有可能离开学校，在“移民经济”中向上流动？是什么原因造成了相当大一部分第二代铁川人的向上流动，而其余的人却停滞不前甚至向下流动？为什么一些第二代墨西哥裔美国人认为种族和种族歧视并没有阻碍他们在学校或工作中取得成就，他们更多地认为自己是“第二代种族”，更多地认同“少数民族”移民(如希腊人或意大利人)，而另一些人则认为歧视阻碍了他们的流动性，认为自己是“本土少数族裔”，更认同黑人和波多黎各人。他们对歧视的看法与他们的职业和教育流动性有什么关系？这个项目得到了本科院校研究计划的支持。它实现了RUI的目标，即在本科生积极参与的情况下支持教师进行高质量的研究，加强以本科教学为主要导向的学术部门的研究环境，并促进以本科生为主的院校的研究与教育的融合。这项研究还将有助于我们了解第二代移民以及教育和职业流动

This is a study of the determinants of education and work mobility among second-generation Mexican-Americans in New York City. The fate of the children of immigrants, the "second generation," is an increasingly important scholarly and public policy topic. This research will contribute to our understanding of the fate of the second generation through an ethnographic and interview study that considers the effects of gender, market niche, ethnic identity and social organization on their educational and occupational mobility patterns. This study is based on earlier ethnographic research on immigrants from the Mexican town of Ticuani, and the present project will seek to understand several puzzling ethnographic findings, including: Why would second generation Ticuanense women be more likely to be upwardly mobile in the mainstream economy and to attend college and obtain professional jobs, while the men are more likely to leave school and be upwardly mobile in the "immigrant economy"? What accounts for the upward mobility of a significant minority of second generation Ticuanense men and women, and the stagnation or even downward mobility of the rest? Why do some second generation Mexican-Americans view ethnic and racial discrimination as not stopping them from achieving in school or work, view themselves more as "second generation ethnics" and identify more with "ethnic" immigrants (like Greeks or Italians), while others see discrimination as precluding their mobility, view themselves as "native racial minorities" and identify more with Blacks and Puerto Ricans. What relationship, if any, do their views of discrimination have to their occupational and educational mobility? This project is supported under the Research in Undergraduate Institutions program. It fulfills the RUI aims to support high quality research by faculty with active involvement of undergraduate students, strengthen the research environment in academic departments that are oriented primarily toward undergraduate instructi on, and promote the integration of research and education at predominantly undergraduate institutions. The study will also contribute to our understanding of the second generation of immigrants and of educational and occupational mobility