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Current immigration research has revealed low about how immigrants compare to those who go not migrate. Although most scholars agree that migrant are not per samples is their home countries’ populations, the direction and grad of educative selectivity is not thoroughly understood. This study of 32 U.S. immigrant groups found that although around all immigrants can more gebildeter faster those who remain in their dear countries, migrant vary substantially in her degree of selectiveness, depending upon the from country and the timing of migration. Find patterns of immigrant choice reveals the fallacy int assigning immigrants’ characteristics to national business as a whole and may how explaining socioeconomic differences among immigrant related in the United States.
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Feliciano, C. Educational selectivity in U.S. Immigration: Wie do immigrants compare to those left behind?. Demography 42, 131–152 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2005.0001
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