1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001542219707536

Autore

Passavant, Günter

Titolo

Verrocchio : sculptures, paintings and drawings : complete edition / by G. Passavant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Phaidon, 1969

ISBN

0714813702

Descrizione fisica

[7], 223 p. : ill. ; 31 cm

Disciplina

709.24

Soggetti

Verrocchio, Andrea

Verrocchio, Andrea

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785951303321

Autore

Chen Ping <1973->

Titolo

Assimilation of immigrants and their adult children [[electronic resource] ] : college education, cohabitation, and work / / Ping Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-59332-644-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

The new Americans : recent immigration and American society

Disciplina

305.9/06912

Soggetti

Americanization

Adult children of immigrants - United States

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgement; 1 Introduction; 2 Assimilation of College Education: Intergenerational andInter-Class Mobility of the



Second Immigrant Generation; 3 Cohabitation and Marriage among Immigrant Youth DuringTransition to Adulthood; 4 Divergent Paths of Economic Adaptation: Nativity andImmigrant Statuses, Labor Segment Membership andEconomic Well-Being; 5 Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Chen studies recent immigrants and their adult children in three domains: college education, union formation, and work. In education, Chen finds that second-generation youth universally achieve higher in high school graduation than their immigrant parents. However, assimilation in terms of college education is lower among some ethnic groups due to social, cultural and structural factors. In family life, Chen finds that being raised in immigrant families protects youth from assimilating into the alternative life style of cohabitation and encourages marriage. In employment, nativity and immigran