Over the past two decades, a growing body of research has focused on immigrant selectivity
and its effects on immigrant health, immigrant labor market outcomes, and children of …

The authors review research conducted during the past decade on immigrant families,
focusing primarily on the United States and the sending countries with close connections to …

Migration decisions are made in the context of personal needs and desires, and the
individuals making these decisions face uncertain outcomes. Information about future …

Rationale Despite the well-established link between an immigrant's destination-language
proficiency and psychological well-being, little is known about the relationship between an …

This article examines educational aspirations, expectations and school effort among
adolescents, using the first wave of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in …

Immigrants experience an ambiguous social position: on the one hand, they tend to be
positively selected on resources from the origin country; on the other, they often occupy the …

Since the 1990s sociology has rediscovered a theme already present in the discipline's
foundational theories: the salience of future perceptions for social action. This article …

Migrant selectivity refers to the idea that immigrants differ in certain characteristics from
individuals who stay behind in their country of origin. In this article, we describe the …

This article depicts the selectivity profiles of first-generation immigrants of multiple origins in
18 European destinations and investigates whether educational selectivity is relevant to …

Although children of immigrant origin in many European countries are observed to choose
higher levels of education than native-origin peers at similar levels of academic …