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1. Multi-dimensional hyper-selectivity and divergent mobilities: second-generation Filipinos and Chinese.

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Gambol, Brenda

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*ACADEMIC achievement, *IMMIGRANTS, *SCHOLARS, *CHINESE people, *ACADEMIC ability
Abstract

Asian Americans are generally understood as a success story: scholars point out the incredible educational leaps in the second-generation. As a result, research on Asians is often devoted to explaining why mobility occurs. A recent explanation points to immigrant hyper-selectivity: post-1965 Asian immigrants come to the U.S. highly educated. Yet, research has shown divergent patterns among two of the largest hyper-selected Asian groups, Chinese and Filipinos: while the former achieves tremendous educational gains in the second-generation, the latter experiences stagnation. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the following study examines why current hyper-selectivity literature fails to explain the two groups' disparate outcomes. Findings point to unequal levels of hyper-selectivity between Chinese and Filipinos, largely due to their opposing gendered migrations. In addition, the study illustrates a Filipino penalty in education vis-à-vis their Chinese counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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3. Re-evaluating hyper-selectivity: occupational niches as ethnic capital.

Author

Gambol, Brenda

Subjects
FILIPINO Americans, ASIAN Americans, OCCUPATIONAL achievement, OCCUPATIONAL segregation, CAPITAL, SOCIAL networks
Abstract

This paper re-evaluates the concept "hyper-selectivity". Hyper-selectivity, that immigrants are more highly educated than nonmigrants and the average American, is thought to explain the exceptional academic and occupational achievements of Asian Americans, yet hyper-selectivity seems to be limited for one very large Asian American group: Filipino Americans. Unlike their counterparts who display incredible levels of upward mobility, Filipino Americans demonstrate a decline; they report lower levels of B.A. attainment compared to the first generation. Drawing on a five-year ethnographic study of middle-class Filipino Americans in the New York City metro area, I contend that one reason that hyper-selectivity is limited for Filipino Americans is their ethnic capital. Specifically, occupational niches in nursing and the U.S. Navy, have significantly impacted the ideas about success and social networks among Filipino Americans such that second-generation youth desire jobs in health care and enlisting in the military. Findings pose important implications to the study of second-generation mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019

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