Protective ethnicity: how Armenian immigrants' extracurricular youth organisations redistribute cultural capital to the second-generation in Los Angeles.
Research shows the children of educationally-select immigrant groups benefit from a cultural advantage that allows them to realise higher educational outcomes than scholars would predict based on their parental education level alone. Among native-born families, childrearing practices, such as partic...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 45; no. 13; pp. 2366 - 2387 |
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