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The rights that the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) enumerates include the rights to (1) an adequate standard of living, (2) an education directed toward the development of the child's fullest potential, (3) the highest attainable standard of health, and (4) the child's own cultural identity and use of his or her own language. The CRC states that these rights shall be ensured regardless of various statuses of children, including race, ethnic origin, national origin, and language. This article presents a statistical baseline for assessing the diversity of children in the United States with regard to these statuses, presents results for statistical indicators of well-being for children distinguished by these statuses, and discusses public policies to reduce inequalities relevant to these rights. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

The rights that the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) enumerates include the rights to (1) an adequate standard of living, (2) an education directed toward the development of the child's fullest potential, (3) the highest attainable standard of health, and (4) the child's own cultural identity and use of his or her own language. The CRC states that these rights shall be ensured regardless of various statuses of children, including race, ethnic origin, national origin, and language. This article presents a statistical baseline for assessing the diversity of children in the United States with regard to these statuses, presents results for statistical indicators of well-being for children distinguished by these statuses, and discusses public policies to reduce inequalities relevant to these rights.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Dimensions of Second-Generation: Incorporation An Introduction to the Book -- PART I. Starting Points -- 2. Legalization and Naturalization Trajectories among Mexican Immigrants and Their Implications for the Second Generation -- 3. Early Childhood Education Programs -- PART II. Major Case Studies -- 4. The Mexican American Second Generation in Census 2000 -- 5. Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans -- 6. School Qualifications of Children of Immigrant Descent in Switzerland -- 7. Ethnic Community, Urban Economy, and Second-Generation Attainment -- 8. The Second Generation in the German Labor Market -- 9. Capitals, Ethnic Identity, and Educational Qualifications -- PART III. The Role of Local Context -- 10. National and Urban Contexts for the Integration of the Second Generation in the United States and Canada -- 11. "I Will Never Deliver Chinese Food" -- PART IV. In Closing Comparative Studies -- 12. Black Identities and the Second Generation -- 13. How Do Educational Systems Integrate? -- 14. The Employment of Second Generations in France -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index

On New Shores focuses on immigrant fathers in North America and provides readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach to how researchers, practitioners, and social policymakers can examine immigrant fathering among ethnic minority families. The chapters focus on the various methodological advances used to explicitly investigate immigrant fathers