Collaborative Research: The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Panel Study

这项研究将分析第二代移民在美国成年早期的适应过程。今天，移民子女占所有21岁或以下美国年轻人的近四分之一，是这一人口中增长最快的部分。 第二代移民在经济、社会、文化等方面适应美国社会的成败，将对当今移民人口集中的城市和地区产生重要影响。这项研究将根据专门为此目的收集的数据，审查适应过程对成年人的实际影响。这些数据来自刚刚完成的移民子女纵向研究（CILS）第三次调查，这是迄今为止最大的针对移民第二代的研究项目。 CILS始于1992年，对迈阿密/英尺的5,266名8年级和9年级移民儿童进行了调查。劳德代尔和圣地亚哥，并继续跟踪这些学生在1995-96年高中毕业时，加上他们的移民父母的50%的调查。 最近完成的后续调查将原始样本追溯到成年早期，平均年龄为24岁，并包括关于成年结果的详细数据，如教育，就业，职业地位，配偶/伴侣的种族，目前的家庭状况，监禁，少女母亲，福利依赖，以及向下同化，投票，政治偏好，公民行为，民族和种族身份的其他指标，与美国社会的认同。正是这一广泛的数据集，我们打算分析，作为关键的第二代成果，个人，家庭和学校变量在两个早期的调查测量预测。 使用这些数据，可以基于该数据集以更稳健的方式解决因果顺序和因果效应的非虚假性问题。 与本研究报告以往各阶段一样，将通过学术出版物以及公共讲座、新闻文章和供决策者和公众访问的互联网网站传播研究结果。 该项目的学术价值包括以下几点：这是第一次通过关注其后代的适应来对当代移民的长期后果进行重大研究。它将测试分段同化的新理论，并将其与该领域经典观点的理论进行比较。 该项目的更广泛影响包括：研究结果将提供关于当代第二代的适应及其对城市和地区的影响的第一个权威性结论。因此，这项研究的结果将对移民政策以及以新美国人为重点的教育和语言项目产生直接影响。

The proposed study will analyze the adaptation process of second generation immigrants in early adulthood in the United States. Children of immigrants comprise today close to one-fourth of all young Americans aged 21 or under and represent the fastest growing segment of this population. Success or failure of second generation immigrants' economic, social, and cultural adaptation to American society will have an important effect on the cities and regions where today's immigrant population concentrate. This study will examine actual adult outcomes of the adaptation process on the basis of data collected expressly for this purpose. These data come from the just-completed third-survey of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), the largest research project to date focused on the immigrant second generation. CILS was begun in 1992 with a survey of 5,266 children of immigrants attending 8th and 9th grades in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale and San Diego, and continued with a follow-up of these students at the time of high school graduation in 1995-96 plus a survey of 50 percent of their immigrant parents. The recently completed follow-up survey traces the original sample into early adulthood, average age 24 and includes detailed data on adult outcomes such as education, employment, occupational status, ethnicity of spouses/partners, present family situations, incarceration, teenage motherhood, welfare dependence, and other indicators of downward assimilation, voting, political preferences, civic behavior, ethnic and racial identities, and identification with American society. It is this extensive data set that we intend to analyze, employing as predictors of key second generation outcomes, personal, family, and school variables measured in the two earlier surveys. Using these data, issues of causal order and non-spuriousness of causal effects can be addressed in a more robust manner on the basis of this data set. Findings will be disseminated, as in past phases of this study, through academic publications as well as through public lectures, journalistic articles, and Internet sites accessible to policy-makers and the public. The project's intellectual merit includes the following: This is the first major study on the long-term consequences of contemporary immigration through a focus on the adaptation of its offspring. It will test novel theories of segmented assimilation and compare them with those stemming from classic perspectives in this field. The project's broader impacts include the following: Results of the study will provide the first authoritative conclusion about the adaptation of the contemporary second generation and its impact on the cities and regions where it concentrates. As such, results of the study will have a direct bearing on immigration policy and education and language programs focused on new Americans.