Behind the contentious politics of immigration lies the question of how well new immigrants are becoming part of American society. To address this question, this book draws on the results of a ground-breaking study of young adults of immigrant parents in metropolitan New York to provide a comprehensive look at their social, economic, cultural, and political lives. The authors conclude, "We began this study worried about downward mobility of some of the children of immigrants. We now feel that, in some ways, it is the opposite problem that is actually a greater cause for concern. It has become clear that the relative success of the children of immigrants is now obscuring the depth of continuing poverty and discrimination, limited opportunities, staggering rates of incarceration and the general social excluision of large segments of the native minority youth population."
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