Immigrant Education: Variations by Generation, Age-at-Immigration, and Country of Origin
March 2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-59332-072-0 / Hardcover
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 / xiv, 190 pages
"a valuable addition to the literature...can help immigration and school policies...can serve as the basis for valuable future research." -- Education Review
DebBurman studies the differences in education among immigrants: compared by generation, age-at-immigration, and country-of-origin. Educational attainment of adults and school enrollment among high school and pre-school children are evaluated using Becker's theories of human capital investment and demand for schooling. Second-generation adult immigrants have the highest level of schooling, exceeding that of both first-generation and U.S. born, while the first-generation possess the highest level of pre- and high school enrollment. Teenage immigrants complete fewer school years and are less likely enroll in high school. Hispanics and Blacks lag non-Hispanic Whites. This gap narrows with higher order immigrant generations among Hispanics, but widens among blacks. However, schooling differences by country-of-origin are more complex.