Mexicans as Model Minorities in the New Latino Diaspora

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2280425
AutoresWortham (0000-0003-0482-1191, California University of Pennsylvania), Stanton Wortham, Katherine Mortimer (0000-0003-1357-2502), Katherine S Mortimer (0000-0003-2011-9933, California University of Pennsylvania), E Allard (0000-0001-6960-1398, California University of Pennsylvania)
Ano2009
Volume40
Fascículo4
Páginas388-404
Data de publicação2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01058.x
OpenAlexW1828718090
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42
Referências citadas11

Rapid Mexican immigration has challenged host communities to make sense of immigrants' place in New Latino Diaspora towns. We describe one town in which residents often characterize Mexican immigrants as model minorities with respect to work and civic life but not with respect to education. We trace how this stereotype is deployed, accepted, and rejected both by long-standing residents and by Mexican newcomers themselves. [Mexican immigration, social identification, ethnic contrasts, minority students

Acculturation · Asian americans · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Immigration · Mexican americans · Model minority · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology