Pew Study Tracks Success of Children of Immigrants - NYTimes.com: Americans who were born to immigrant parents, many of them the adult children of an enormous wave of immigrants who began arriving in the 1960s, are doing better than the foreign born on important measures of socioeconomic success, and in at least one area — education — have outperformed the population as a whole.
Those findings were among many details released on Thursday by the Pew Research Center in a 310-page report that is perhaps the most detailed study of adult children of immigrants in the modern era of American immigration. The report relied on data from the Census Bureau and surveys Pew conducted itself over the last several years to produce what it called “A Portrait of the Adult Children of Immigrants.”
Of the 36 million people in this group, some 20 million have reached adulthood, and, according to the report, they are less likely than the foreign born and the general population to be in poverty. Their rates of homeownership are on par with those of the general adult population.
