Russel Sage Foundation

RSF author and former visiting scholar Rubén G. Rumbaut (University of California, Irvine) delivered the Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Titled “From Middle School to Middle Adulthood: Education and the Social Mobility of the Immigrant Second Generation in an Age of Inequality,” Rumbaut’s speech discussed the educational attainment and social mobility of a unique panel of 1.5- and second-generation immigrant respondents followed from 1991 to 2015. Following his lecture, Rumbaut was joined by Min Zhou (University of California, Los Angeles), co-author of the RSF book The Asian American Achievement Paradox for a discussion.

Rumbaut is a leading scholar on immigration and the co-author or co-editor of several RSF books including Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (2001), Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (2001), and Immigration Research for a New Century (2003). During his time in residence at RSF, he and Cynthia Feliciano (University of California, Irvine) studied the socioeconomic, cultural, and political incorporation of the immigrant second generation, and how they completed their adult transitions during and after the Great Recession.