Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States.

ABSTRACT: The impact of immigrant parents' premigration family background on their second-generation children residing in destination countries remains underexplored in the literature on historical social mobility. Using multigenerational historical survey records from the Japanese American Research Project, this study investigates the influence of premigration socioeconomic and cultural background of Japan-born grandparents and parents on the social mobility of second-generation Japanese Americans born in the continental United States in the early twentieth century. The analysis reveals the enduring effects of family premigration socioeconomic status, as indicated by occupation and education, and culture conducive to upward mobility, proxied by samurai ancestry, on second-generation Japanese Americ

SUBMITTER: Kihara T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11405130 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature