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The second generation born in a country (i.e. "third generation" in the above definition) In the United States, among demographers and other social scientists, "second generation" refers to the U.S.-born children of foreign-born parents.
From Baby Boomers to Gen Z, explore the complexity of America’s living and lost generations through an interactive multimedia experience.
About a third (34%) of second- and third-generation or higher Latinos agree the United States should allow more immigrants to come to work in the country legally. About four in ten second- (41%) and third-generation or higher (39%) Latinos report the United States should allow the same amount.
First generation immigrants, or those born outside of the U.S., are more likely to work harder than later generation immigrants primarily because they are the foundation in which the trajectory of generations is dictated from their established work.
• Second generation: U.S. native (born in the United States or territories) with at least one foreign-born parent. • Third-and-higher generation: U.S. native (born in the United States or territories) with both parents native born. Also referred to in this report as the third generation.
About one-third (36%) of Hispanics are immigrants, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Another third of Hispanics are second generation (34%) – they are U.S. born with at least one immigrant parent.
Responses to the Census Bureau race question varied by immigrant generation among self-identified Hispanics. About half (49%) of Hispanic immigrants indicated their race is White, a share that rose to about two-thirds among second- and third- or higher-generation Hispanics.
The first generation refers to those who are foreign born. The second generation refers to those with at least one foreign-born parent. The third-and-higher generation includes those with two U.S. native parents.
We compare the household characteristics of post-1965, second-generation Latino and Asian children in 1980 to a “new third-generation” in 2010, a generation later.
For the better part of the last two decades, scholars have debated whether the post-1965 immigrant groups, which come mostly from Latin Ameri-can, Asia, and the Caribbean, are following the assimilation path blazed by earlier waves of immigrants.