These short story scrutinize the fate of the immigrant generations.

Is there an American allegory here, immigrant generations rising to prosperity only to fall into violence and despair?

That seems to be the norm among her immigrant generation.

According to studies, there is a great upward jump in economic mobility from the first to the second immigrant generation because of education.

Does the immigrant generation really understand their dilemma?

But this is the first immigrant generation that can connect back home instantaneously by cell phone, videophone and the Internet.

It is an open question, he said, whether baseball will continue to remain central to the Americanizing experience of immigrant generations.

This theory predicts that each succeeding immigrant generation exhibits greater assimilation into mainstream society.

It was possible for that immigrant generation to live an entire life in America with little connection to the people and country of their emigration.