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Article: Choice and circumstance: social capital and planful competence in the attainments of immigrant youth *.
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Abstract: Although research finds that foreign-born youth often enjoy greater educational attainments than domestic-horn youth, we do not have a coherent theoretical explanation of why this happens. We operationalize individual and structural factors with measures of planful competence and social capital; both of these independently predict educational attainment, and measures of occupational attainment further indicate that these educational histories may have lifetime effects. Although the data do not provide blanket evidence for a positive effect of youthful immigration on educational attainment, bilingual foreign born students do enjoy a greater likelihood of ...