Thursday, March 31 / 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM   •   Wilson B

Session 48:
Immigrant Integration and Assimilation

Chair: Ilana Redstone Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Erin R. Hamilton, University of California, Davis

  1. Teachers’ Perceptions of Immigrant Students and Students’ AchievementSarah Blanchard, University of Texas at Austin

  2. The Multiple Dimensions of Immigrant Acculturation and Obesity among Mexican-AmericansMathew J. Creighton, Universitat Pompeu Fabra ; Anne Pebley, University of California, Los Angeles

  3. Race/Ethnicity, Educational–Occupational Mismatch, and Immigrant Wealth AccumulationMatthew A. Painter, University of Wyoming

  4. Birthweight among Children of Immigrants by Duration in the U.S.Julien O. Teitler, Columbia University ; Nancy E. Reichman, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School ; Nathan Hutto, Columbia University

Other sessions on Migration, Neighborhoods, and Urbanization