Feliciano Cynthia
Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-5100, USA.
Demography. 2005 Feb;42(1):131-52. doi: 10.1353/dem.2005.0001.
Current immigration research has revealed little about how immigrants compare to those who do not migrate. Although most scholars agree that migrants are not random samples of their home countries' populations, the direction and degree of educational selectivity is not fully understood. This study of 32 U.S. immigrant groups found that although nearly all immigrants are more educated than those who remain in their home countries, immigrants vary substantially in their degree of selectivity, depending upon the origin country and the timing of migration. Uncovering patterns of immigrant selectivity reveals the fallacy in attributing immigrants' characteristics to national groups as a whole and may help explain socioeconomic differences among immigrant groups in the United States.
当前的移民研究很少揭示移民与非移民相比情况如何。尽管大多数学者都认为移民并非其祖国人口的随机样本，但教育选择性的方向和程度尚未完全明了。这项针对32个美国移民群体的研究发现，虽然几乎所有移民都比留在祖国的人受教育程度更高，但移民在其选择程度上差异很大，这取决于原籍国和移民时间。揭示移民选择模式揭示了将移民特征归因于整个民族群体的谬误，并可能有助于解释美国移民群体之间的社会经济差异。
