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Citation (ASA Style):

Hirschman, Charles. 2001. "The Educational Enrollment of Immigrant Youth: A
Test of the Segmented-Assimilation Hypothesis." Demography 38:317-336.
     

This article is based solely around immigrants and their enrollment rates in secondary
school. It goes into the main “types” of immigrants that America gets and how each one has
a different trend when it come to enrolling in school.     

The group studies kids from 15-17 from the Public Use Microdata Sample as well as the
1990 Census information. This filtered down to about 40,000 foreign born adolescents in the
specified age range. Hirschman actually breaks down many of his finding by place of birth,
race, and nationality.

Like all good sociologists Hirschman is able to take raw data and turn it in a beautiful array of
statistics. Since it would be impossible to go around to every state in every area and find out all
the pertinent information required to conduct this experiment, his use of public information to
formulate his observations was masterful. He uses country of origin as well as age and parental
involvement in order to organize his findings which he got from public information.
     
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he also found some other interesting factoids in regards to
“placement.” Certain migrants tend to settle in certain places. More specifically Latinos, Africans,
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in these places the families tend to fall on the soup of the socioeconomic ladder where the
tendency is not completing or pursuing school much after adolescence. But for others like the
Asians they grow up with a rich value system perfect for success no matter where they are located.
To sum up there are a myriad of issues that affect one’s enrollment in school. And any one of those
factors can be magnetized or numbed by the assimilation into American society. But on a positive
note the majority of high school age immigrants are nearly just as likely to attend and graduate
high school as their national classmates.      
2.What is the primary research question or thesis of this
article?

3.What are the characteristics of the population studied? How many people, ages,
genders, race/ethnicity/nationality, professions, etc.? How were these people
selected?
6.Critique this article, discuss method, findings, analysis, writing style, or other
elements of the research project.

Thankfully this type of research has been around for a while. We all know the tendencies of
certain nationalities to trump our own efforts in schools especially other migrant nations. But
it was interesting to read an article that addressed more than one group and how their
assimilation or lack there of is understood. One thing I saw as a problem in article is the
references to Asian households and the effect of parenting and values. It leads one to
consider that other parents of other households don hold the same or similar values. As rue
as that may or may not be I would reason with Hirschman on the point economic status,
personal
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the research question? Were there limitations to this method?