Special Editors: Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Alejandro Portes

A Volume of The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume 620, November, 2008

Introduction
Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Section One: Theory and Facts

No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational Achievement among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants
Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied: Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility in Los Angeles’s New Second Generation
Min Zhou, Jennifer Lee, Jody Agius Vallejo, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, Yang Sao Xiong

The Role of School in the Upward Mobility of Disadvantaged Immigrants’ Children
Lingxin Hao, Suet-ling Pong

Disparities in the Educational Success of Immigrants: An Assessment of the Immigrant Effect for Asians and Latinos
Angel L. Harris, Kenneth M. Jamison, Monica H. Trujillo

Section Two: Social Mechanisms

The Back Pocket Map: Social Class and Cultural Capital as Transferable Assets in the Advancement of Second-Generation Immigrants
Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Ethnic Communities and School Performance among the New Second Generation in the United States: Testing the Theory of Segmented Assimilation
Clemens Kroneberg

Fit to Miss, but Matched to Hatch: Success Factors among the Second Generation’s Disadvantaged in South Florida
Lisa Konczal, William Haller

Educational Hopes, Documented Dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Immigrants’ Legality and Educational Prospects
Cecilia Menjívar

Section Three: Places and Locations

The Coming of the Second Generation: Immigration and Ethnic Mobility in Southern California
Rubén G. Rumbaut

“Here’s Your Diploma, Mom!”: Family Obligation and Multiple Pathways to Success
Tekla Nicholas, Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick

Becoming American, Becoming Minority, Getting Ahead: The Role of Racial and Ethnic Status in the Upward Mobility of the Children of Immigrants
Philip Kasinitz

Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn: Extrafamily Support, Intrafamily Dynamics, and Socially Neutral Operating Identities in Exceptional Mobility among Children of Mexican Immigrants
Robert C. Smith

Section Four: Commentaries

Norms, Values, and Solidarity: A Durkheimian Perspective on Escaping from the Inner City
Steven Elías Alvarado

No Margin for Error and Its Implications for Future Research
G. Cristina Mora

We Are the People Who Love Us and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Alejandro Rivas

Section Five: Book Reviews

Book Review Essay: New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration
Peggy Levitt

Book Review Essay: Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
Charles Hirschman

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