Journal article
Aspiration squeeze: The struggle of children to positively selected immigrants
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Why is it that children of immigrants often outdo their ethnic majority peers in educational aspirations yet struggle to keep pace with their achievements? This article advances the explanation that many immigrant communities, while positively selected on education, still have moderate absolute levels of schooling. Therefore, parents' education may imbue children with high expectations but not always the means to fulfill them. Swedish data on children of immigrants from over 100 countries of ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1177/0038040718822573
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Sociology of Education Journal website
- Volume:
- 92
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 83-103
- Publication date:
- 2018-12-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-15
- DOI:
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1939-8573
- ISSN:
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0038-0407
- Source identifiers:
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957252
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- pubs:957252
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- 2019-01-09
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- American Sociological Association
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © American Sociological Association 2018. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE Publishing Group at: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038040718822573
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