Overview Of The Immigrant Second Generation In Metropolitan New York

The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York study looked into 428 variables, ranging from language preferences, citizenship, income, and family life, ultimately looking at differences of lifestyles growing up in a second generation immigrant family. This report will further investigate into how parent’s background in education and occupation might later on impact the wellbeing and development of the respondent. Variables like mother and father’s occupation, race, household income, well fare received previously and currently, respondent’s education, respondent’s occupation, and gross personal income. This sparked an interest for me because I am curious to see if parents’ education level impacted their children’s general wellbeing,

The study looked at 18 to 32 year old second generation immigrants, which is defined as “Young adults aged 18-32 who were born in the United States to parents who immigrated after 1965 or who were born abroad but arrived the United States by age 12 and grew up in the United States (the "1.5 generation") from five different immigrant origins, or who were born in the United States to parents born in the United States or Puerto Rico, who identify themselves as White, Black, or Puerto Rican” (Mollenkopf, Kasinitz, Waters, 2011) for purposes of this study. The researchers conducted telephone interviews using random samples of 3,415 men and women who live in New York City, or the inner suburban areas of Nassau and Westchester Counties, New York, and northeastern New Jersey. Two phases of this survey were conducted. In the first phase, 91,331 phone calls were made, and of those phone calls, of all the respondents who answered, and spoke English, it was determined that 32,401 respondents were eligible to be screened, and ultimately 4,405 were found eligible after phase 1 screening. From the initial 196,063 Phase 2 phone calls, 2,399 were found eligible after the phase 2 screening concluded. The total number of eligible respondents came to 6,804, and in the end 53.2% of their completed interviews were eligible, leaving the study with 3,415 respondents. (Mollenkopf et al.,