The results are in

And they look good for the children of immigrants to New York City and its environs, a group whom CUNY Professor Philip Kasinitz and his colleagues call "the second generation." Their new book Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age, co-published with the Russell Sage Foundation, 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. Sewell Chan has just published an article in the New York Times detailing the results of the $2 million study, which focused on five immigrant groups in the New York Area: "Dominicans, Chinese, Russian Jews, South Americans (consisting of Colombians, Ecuadoreans and Peruvians) and West Indians, defined as immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean, including Belize and Guyana."