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Final Phase
The last phase of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) has been completed. It consisted of 50 interviews with respondents who were identified as growing up in situations of great disadvantage, but who had managed, by age 24, to graduate from a 4-year college or university and enter graduate school or begin a professional career. Spouses and parents of these remarkable young men and women were also interviewed in the course of the study. The interviews yielded a series of "constants" or common themes in the lives of these respondents that seemed to influence in decisive ways their orientation toward educational and career achievement. These themes are summarized in the final project report, written by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly with the assistance of Ana Garcia, William Haller, and Lisa Konczal.
The report, entitled, "No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational Achievement among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants," served as the centerpiece for a seminar on the same topic at Princeton on May 11-12, 2007. CILS researchers and other academic specialists participated. Several of the young men and women interviewed in the course of this last phase of the study attended and served as discussants of various planned sessions.
This phase of the project was supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Data from the CILS project is available here. |
