Abstract
This is a qualitative study that examines the process through which young adults who were born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States in their formative years have managed to attain a college education, and the uncertainty that besets their future careers. The article focuses on successful college attainment but seeks to add to the debate about resilient migrants along the following lines. The young adult immigrant population (referred to as Generation 1.5) deserves special attention since they experience a different process of socialization and insertion into American society, compared to first-generation adult migrants and to their children born in the United States (the second generation). The outcome of this different socialization process is a group of high achievers in the academic arena, with a heterogeneous prospect in labor, mainly due to their migratory situation. Their professional prospects fall into one of two patterns: upward mobility or glass-ceiling mobility.
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