Does Social Capital Still Matter? Immigrant Minority Disadvantage in School-Specific Social Capital and its Effects on Academic Achievement

Kao, Grace; Rutherford, Lindsay Taggart

doi:10.1525/sop.2007.50.1.27

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“…Parent-school involvement and inter-generational closeness have been found to be positively related to the education outcomes of children of immigrants, benefitting measures such as average grades or tests scores (Kao & Rutherford, 2007) or preventing certain types of behaviour by the second-generation, such as truancy (McNeal, 1999).…”

Section: Family Involvement and Educational Achievementsmentioning

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Behind the scenes: family involvement and educational achievements of second-generation Turks in Austria, France and Sweden

Schnell

2015

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This article explores school-related involvement strategies within Turkish families in Austria, France and Sweden and their linkages with educational achievements of their children. Using data from the TIES survey, results show that the educational attainment of second-generation Turks in Austria is much more dependent on various activities of support provided by their parents when compared to their counterparts in France and Sweden after holding family background characteristics constant. Besides, the educational success of second-generation Turks in Austria is reliant on the extra support they receive from older siblings beyond parental involvement and education background. No such significant effects were observed in either France or Sweden. The paper further reveals that second-generation Turks are more reliant on educational support from their parents than are the children of majority families within Austria. The paper suggests that these different findings across countries have to be read in the light of interaction mechanisms with institutional settings of the given education systems.

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Section: Family Involvement and Educational Achievementsmentioning

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Behind the scenes: family involvement and educational achievements of second-generation Turks in Austria, France and Sweden

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2015

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“…The positive impact of social capital on educational achievement is confirmed by several empirical studies [37,54,55]. Similarly various studies found evidence for the thesis, that immigrants have lower levels of social capital [56][57][58]. Reyneri and Fullin [59, page 35] explicitly state: "The fact that highly educated second generation immigrants still suffer serious labour market disadvantages has been ascribed just to their lack of host country-specific social capital."…”

Section: Macrosocietal Logics Of Educational Stratificationmentioning

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“…This indicates that migration status in these countries is an indicator for lacking social integration (social capital) (cp. [56][57][58][59]). Remarkably, the traditional immigration countries show the lowest degrees of inequality based on migration background.…”

Section: Patterns Of Educational Inequality In 30 Industrialisedmentioning

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Logics of Educational Stratification: A Cross-National Map of Educational Inequality

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Ackermann

2012

ISRN Education

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Equality of education is often seen as the fundament of the overall equality of opportunity in modern societies. However, no reliable and comprehensive cross-national comparison of educational inequality hitherto exists. The aim of the present paper is to provide a cross-national comparative outline of diverse dimensions of educational inequality in the OECD world. We estimate the effects of three highly influential aspects of socioeconomic background on educational achievement in each OECD country in order to create a ranking of educational inequality in 30 capitalist countries. The central finding is that we indeed cannot identify a single cross-national ranking but three dimensions of education inequality: educational inequality based on economic, educational, and migration background at home. Capitalist economies thus do not only differ with regard to the degree of inequality but, first and foremost concerning the predominant patterns of inequality and the main distributive keys.

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“…Researchers have noted the importance of social support and social networks during migration (e.g., Bankston & Zhou, 2002;Kao & Rutherford, 2007;McKether, 2008). Ornelas, Perreira, Beeber, and Maxwell (2009) found that immigrant mothers experiencing stress and other emotional problems used social networks and community resources to promote resilience.…”

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Turning Points and Transitions: The Role of Family in Women’s Immigration Experiences

Vesely

Goodman

Scurlock

2014

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Given the significant number of immigrants in the United States, especially immigrant families with young children, there is a need to better understand the experiences of immigrant women, and especially immigrant mothers. In particular, the factors impacting women's decisions to migrate, migration journeys, and post-migration adjustment should be examined. Framed in family life course theory and using ethnographic, in-depth interviews, we explored these three immigration phases for 40 first-generation Latina and African immigrant women who experienced motherhood in the U.S. Results of the study expand the literature focused on immigration experiences by considering turning points and transitions in women's migration processes, as they are shaped by both micro-(family) and macro-(socio-historical) level factors. The findings illustrate the spontaneous nature of some decisions to migrate, as well as how immigration journeys are influenced by the financial and physical supports of families and the status of their documentation. In addition, study findings point to motherhood as an important turning point for first-generation immigrant women in their adjustment to life in the U.S., and particularly in their planning with respect to staying long term. Implications for programs, policy, and future research are discussed.

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Does Social Capital Still Matter? Immigrant Minority Disadvantage in School-Specific Social Capital and its Effects on Academic Achievement

Cited by 157 publications

References 40 publications

Behind the scenes: family involvement and educational achievements of second-generation Turks in Austria, France and Sweden

Behind the scenes: family involvement and educational achievements of second-generation Turks in Austria, France and Sweden

Logics of Educational Stratification: A Cross-National Map of Educational Inequality

Turning Points and Transitions: The Role of Family in Women’s Immigration Experiences

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