SOCI 440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 175-221: The New York Times, Human Capital, Vanlandingham
11 Sep 2018
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How do immigrants make it in america: great deal of diversity in immigrant educational attainment. British and nigerians appear as the most educated immigrants: educational differences: distance from home country- further away more educated. They want people that are going to create more jobs. Dollars and dreams: west africans in new york (2007) video: media projections of america, provide so much information. A lot of people from west africa want to come and assume it is so easy to settle in and earn money when they come to the us. However, if you have not accumulated any money, you cannot afford to live there. This makes clerical jobs such as cleaning, being a taxi driver and scrubbing toilets more worthwhile: post-katrina, vietnamese success (new york times), m. Vanlandingham vietnamese-american experienced a more robust recovery than any other social group, because of cultural attributes some of them are already predisposed to success.
