Past research demonstrates that familial and community support can aid the academic
success of Latino/a students. However, few studies explore how older siblings influence …

Immigrant college students often encounter daunting tasks and obstacles when exploring
career paths, seeking employment and experiential learning opportunities aligned with their …

High aspirations can be an important factor for educational attainment, especially for youth
in disadvantaged schools who are otherwise more likely to leave school early. In this article …

In this article, we study whether social capital contributes to ethnic inequality in education or
whether there is evidence of counter-stratification. We use data from three surveys of …

The article examines the role of social networks in migrants' labour market outcomes
addressing both horizontal and vertical occupational mobility using data from the survey (N …

Historically, a scarcity of comprehensive longitudinal microdata has affected comparative
research on the interplay between self‐identified race, immigrant status, and educational …

The research presented here was completed in partial fulfillment for the doctorate in
education degree for the University of Dayton school of Education and Health Sciences. This …

This study acknowledges the potential contribution of Mexican highly-skilled immigrants
settled in the United States. Then, to better understand how the brain waste phenomenon …

Bangladesh's history of overseas migration is long. The colonial history of Bangladesh is
closely linked to its migration to industrialized nations, notably the West. Before 1971 small …

Abstract Scholars Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou (2015) argue that the upward mobility of one
racial group---Asian Americans---in the US can be explained by its “hyper-selectivity”: the …