Come join us for a session where Robert Smith will present his book, Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility. Jody Agius Vallejo (Sociology, USC) will provide comments.

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383

Abstract: U.S.-born Mexicans in New York City have achieved perhaps the biggest single jump in mobility in American immigration history. In 2020, 42 percent of second-generation U.S.-born Mexican men and 49 percent of U.S.-born Mexican women in the city had graduated from college–versus a 13-14-percent second-generation college graduation rate for most other places in recent decades. How did this happen? In  Dreams Achieved and Denied, sociologist Robert Courtney Smith (Graduate Center, City University of New York) examines the laws, policies, and individual and family practices that promoted–and inhibited–their social mobility. Please email duranasaydee@ucla.edu for the zoom link if you will be attending virtually. 

Sponsor(s): Center for Study of International Migration