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France and the Unknown Second Generation: Preliminary Results on Social Mobility:

Patrick Simon
- 01 Dec 2003 - 
- Vol. 37, Iss: 4, pp 1091-1119
TLDR
The second generation question as discussed by the authors has been a hot topic in the last few years, with growing concern about the future of the offspring of immigrants in France, which has led to the rise of a second-generation question.
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The growing concern about the future of the offspring of immigrants in France has prompted the rise of a “second generation question.” Access of “new second generations” {i.e., those born from the ...

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The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants

TL;DR: This article introduced the concept of segmented assimilation to describe the diverse possible outcomes of this process of adaptation and used modes of incorporation for developing a typology of vulnerability and resources affecting such outcomes.
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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

TL;DR: The institution of Citizenship in France and Germany is discussed in this article, where Citizenship as Social Closure is defined as social closure and Citizenship as Community of Descent as community of origin.
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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

TL;DR: The institution of Citizenship in France and Germany has been studied extensively in the literature as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on Citizenship as Social Closure and Citizenship as Community of Descent, and Citizenship and Naturalization in Wilhelmine Germany.
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Second-Generation Decline: Scenarios for the Economic and Ethnic Futures of the Post-1965 American Immigrants

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss economic scenarios, positive and negative, for the future of the children of the post-1965 immigrants, and propose the possibility that a significant number of children of poor immigrants, especially dark-skinned ones, might not obtain jobs in the mainstream economy, neither will they be willing or able to take low-wage-long-hour "immigrant" jobs like their parents.
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