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Alba, Richard; Silberman, Roxane – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: The educational fate of the children of low-wage immigrants is a salient issue in all the economically developed societies that have received major immigration flows since the 1950s. The article considers the way in which educational systems in the two countries structure the educational experiences and shape the opportunities…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Mexican Americans, Residential Patterns, Educational Attainment
Blanc, Maurice – 1988
In European cities, ethnic minorities concentrate in physically and socially dilapidated areas, according to two different patterns. In the traditional pattern, ethnic minorities (who are among the lowest socioeconomic status groups) concentrate in the old and dilapidated buildings in inner city areas. Because inner city areas are becoming…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity