In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or
transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and
native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the
twenty-first century. This book is about this new generation in the world�s
largest host country of international migration � the United States.
Recognizing that immigration is an intergenerational phenomenon � and one that
is always evolving � the authors begin by asking "Do members of the new second
generation follow the same pathways taken by the 'old' second generation?" They
consider the relevance of assimilation approaches to understanding