作者: Bindi Shah
DOI: 10.1080/01419870601006520
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摘要: Scholarship on the children of post-1965 immigrants to USA posits that ways in which this new second generation relates family and co-ethnic community has important effects their educational achievement socio-economic mobility. These linkages have been explained through concept ethnicity as social capital. Utilizing qualitative data Laotian girls participating an ethnic specific youth project focused justice issues, article evaluates conceptualization capital from a critical feminist perspective. I argue singular focus relations occludes complex life experiences immigrants. examine gender generational power within communities, extra-familial influence, impact contexts structural constraints, role generators complicates adaptation outcomes.