Much like the US, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration over the years. Spain, in particular, has been receiving thousands of new immigrants. This study is based on a sample of almost 7,000 second-generation students who were interviewed in Madrid and Barcelona in 2008 and then re-interviewed four years later.

Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables 1 Twelve Lives 2 Theories of Second-Generation Adaptation 3 The Recent History of Spain-Bound Immigration 4 The Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation 5 Immigrant Parents: Spain and the United States 6 The Psychosocial Adaptation of the Second Generation: Self-Identities, Self-Esteem, and Related Variables 7 The Educational Goals and Achievements of the Second Generation 8 The Entry into the Real World: Labor Market Participation and Downward Assimilation 9 Conclusion: Integration Policies and Their Results Notes References Index Plate gallery located between pages 84 and 85

“Spanish Legacies offers a thorough analysis based on rich, original data on the characteristics, status, and yearnings of the second generation of immigrant children in Spain. This book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of immigration in Spain and in Europe.”—Mauro F. Guillén, author of Global Turning Points “A major contribution to our understanding of the significance of context in the social integration of immigrants’ children. The patterns of ‘segmented assimilation’ brilliantly exposed in Legacies are contrasted with the experience of the children of immigrants in Spain. The unique comparison of the challenges faced by the second-generation immigrants in the US and Spain makes this contribution a must-read for scholars and practitioners in the field.”—Lorenzo Cachón, author of Inmigración y Conflictos en Europa “Spanish Legacies provides a fascinating window into the trajectories of the children of immigrants in Spain, now a major migrant-receiving society. Based on an ambitious and unique research project in Spain that replicated an earlier study in the United States, the book reveals striking parallels as well as differences in the two national contexts. It will be of great interest to anyone wanting to understand the fates of the second generation on both sides of the Atlantic.”—Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe“Spanish Legacies is itself a legacy: a fascinating and faithful replication of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study—but now in Spain, which in the span of a decade became a sudden nation of immigrants. The study this time followed thousands of immigrant-origin youth, not in Miami and San Diego but in Madrid and Barcelona, with results that are as enlightening as they are riveting. Another superb contribution to the international-migration literature.”—Rubén G. Rumbaut, coauthor of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and Immigrant America: A Portrait