Hirschman C
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, Department of Sociology, Box 353340, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3340, USA.
Demography. 2001 Aug;38(3):317-36. doi: 10.1353/dem.2001.0028.
An analysis of 1990 census data on the educational enrollment of 15- to 17-year-old immigrants to the United States provides partial support for predictions from both the segmented-assimilation hypothesis and the immigrant optimism hypothesis. Most immigrant adolescents, especially from Asia, are as likely as their native-born peers to be enrolled in high school, or more so. The "at-risk" immigrant youths with above-average levels of nonenrollment that are not reduced with longer exposure to American society are primarily of Hispanic Caribbean origins (from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba). Recent Mexican immigrants who arrived as teenagers have nonenrollment rates over 40%, but Mexican youths who arrived at younger ages are only somewhat less likely to be enrolled in school than are native-born Americans.
对1990年美国15至17岁移民教育入学情况的人口普查数据分析，为分段同化假说和移民乐观假说的预测提供了部分支持。大多数移民青少年，尤其是来自亚洲的，与本土同龄人一样有可能进入高中就读，甚至更有可能。未入学率高于平均水平且不会因在美国社会停留时间延长而降低的“高危”移民青年主要来自加勒比地区的西班牙裔（来自波多黎各、多米尼加共和国和古巴）。十几岁时抵达美国的近期墨西哥移民未入学率超过40%，但较年幼时抵达的墨西哥青年入学可能性仅略低于本土出生的美国人。
