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Second-generation immigrants in the United States are individuals born and raised in the United States who have at least one foreign-born parent. [1] Although the term is an oxymoron which is often used ambiguously, this definition is cited by major research centers including the United States Census Bureau and the Pew Research Center. [1] [2]
Like "first-generation immigrant", the term "second-generation" can refer to a member of either: The second generation of a family to inhabit, but the first natively born in, a country, or The second generation born in a country (i.e. "third generation" in the above definition)
Second-generation immigrants are born in the United States but have parents who are born abroad. The immigrant-origin child population has grown to nearly 20 million and now make up approximately 27% of the U.S. child population.
Second-generation immigrants often wish their parents had been different. You may long for parents who share your intellectual level, values, and political or spiritual beliefs....
Second-generation Americans—the 20 million adult U.S.-born children of immigrants—are substantially better off than immigrants themselves on key measures of socioeconomic attainment, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
The U.S.-born children of immigrants (second-generation Americans) make up 12% of the nation’s population. By 2050, immigrants and their children could account for 19% and 18% of the population, respectively, according to Pew Research Center projections .
The second generation tend to be very young. The median age of the second generation is 21 years, compared with 38 years among the foreign born, and 37 years among the third-and-later generation. The young age of the second generation reflects the large, recent wave of immigrants to the United States. Back to the top
Second-generation-immigrant success stories have long been a part of America’s history. Looking at census records from 1880, the researchers found that men whose fathers were low-income...
This Special Issue, which includes a look back at the children of the last great wave of immigrants, examines trends among the new second generation, models of assimilation, and methods for learning more about adult children of immigrants to the U.S.
U.S.-born adult children of immigrants–the second generation–are better off than immigrants on key measures of socio-economic well-being, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of census data.