Spanish Legacies : The Coming of Age of the Second Generation / Alejandro Portes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portes, Alejandro, Author.

Aparicio, Rosa, author.

Haller, William (William John), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of immigrants--Spain--Social conditions.

Children of immigrants.

Children of immigrants--Cross-cultural studies.

Spain--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Spain.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country's population is foreign-born. Spanish Legacies, written by internationally known experts on immigration, explores how the children of immigrants-the second generation-are coping with the challenges of adaptation to Spanish society, comparing their experiences with those of their peers in the United States. Using a rich data set based on both survey and ethnographic material, Spanish Legacies describes the experiences of growing up by the large population of second-generation youths in Spain and the principal outcomes of the process-from national self-identification and experiences of discrimination to educational attainment and labor-market entry. The study is based on a sample of almost 7,000 second-generation students who were interviewed in Madrid and Barcelona in 2008 and then followed and re-interviewed four years later. A survey of immigrant parents, a replacement sample for lost respondents in the second survey, and a survey of native-parentage students complement this rich data set. Outcomes of the adaptation process in Spain are systematically presented in five chapters, introduced by real-life histories of selected respondents drawn by the study's ethnographic module. Systematic comparisons with results from the United States show a number of surprising similarities in the adaptation of children of immigrants in both countries, as well as differences marked by contrasting experiences of discrimination, self-identities, and ambition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Figures

Tables

1. Twelve Lives

2. Theories of Second-Generation Adaptation

3. The Recent History of Spain-Bound Immigration

4. The Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation

5. Immigrant Parents

6. The Psychosocial Adaptation of the Second Generation

7. The Educational Goals and Achievements of the Second Generation

8. The Entry into the Real World

9. Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520961579

0520961579

OCLC:

945447601