Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility: Does Culture make a Difference?

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: The Role of Culture in Explanations of Social Mobility....Pages 1-21
Introduction: The Persistence of Culture versus Structure in Recent Work. The Case of Modes of Incorporation....Pages 22-33
What Colour ‘Success’? Distorting Value in Studies of Ethnic Entrepreneurship*....Pages 34-60
The Cultural Fallacy in Studies of Racial and Ethnic Mobility....Pages 61-71
Situational and Structural Rationales for the School Performance of Immigrant Youth. Three Cases....Pages 72-102
What the Jews Brought. East-European Jewish Immigration to the United States, c. 1900....Pages 103-123
Peasantry and Trading Diaspora. Differential Social Mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States....Pages 124-149
The Internationalization of Black Culture. A Comparison of Lower-class Youth in Brazil and the Netherlands....Pages 150-183
Creoles and Hindustanis. Patterns of Social Mobility in Two Surinamese Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands....Pages 184-205
Does Culture Explain? Understanding Differences in School Attainment between Iberian and Turkish Youth in the Netherlands....Pages 206-224
Breaking the Circle of Disadvantage. Social Mobility of Second-Generation Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands....Pages 225-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-257