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The idea of doing a study of the second generation of immigrants in New York originally emerged from the discussions of the Russell Sage Foundation ’s committee on immigration. As is the way of such things, the project that produced this book, as well as its companion volume, Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (Russell Sage Press 2004), turned out to be much bigger and more complicated, and to take much longer, than we or anyone in that initial meeting could have foreseen . But throughout it all, Russell Sage was a partner in our efforts, and its president, Eric Wanner, was our biggest supporter. A worthy, occasionally stern, and always astute advisor and task master, Eric made this study possible. In addition to providing the funding for the project, Russell Sage also hosted Philip Kasinitz and John H. Mollenkopf for a wonderful year as visiting scholars in 2000–2001. We should particularly thank former Russell Sage Foundation vice president Reynolds Farley and program officers Stephanie Platz and Aixa Cintron for their invaluable help. We began the project as novices in the field of survey research. We could never have pulled off a survey of this size without our friends. Garth Taylor was a huge help in the early stages of the first proposal. The telephone survey that is the basis of most of the quantitative analysis was conducted by the firm of Schulman, Ronca and Bucuvalas Incorporated (SRBI), and we worked closely with the staff of SRBI, particularly Al Ronca and Michael Bucuvalas, throughout the early stages of the project. One of the first things we learned is that surveys are expensive. We spent much of the early years of our collaboration raising money. Fortunately , as the project grew, generous support was provided by a variety of sources. We owe thanks to the National Institute for Child Health and Development (for NIH Grants 5R03HD044598–02 and 990–0173), particularly our program officer, Rebecca Clark; the Ford Foundation, Acknowledgments vii particularly Taryn Higashi; the Rockefeller Foundation, particularly Katherine McFate; the Mellon Foundation, particularly Harriet Zuckerman ; and the UJA-Federation of Greater New York, particularly Caroline Katz and the late Gary Rubin. The final data-gathering phase of the project, re-interviewing our in-depth respondents in 2002 and 2003, was supported by the MacArthur Foundation and its research network on transitions to adulthood, led by Frank Furstenberg and wonderfully administered by Patricia Miller. Thanks to them both. In addition, Mary Waters was supported by a year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which provided valuable time to write as we brought the project to completion during the academic year 2005–2006. The study was based at the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Thanks are due the Graduate Center business office and the CUNY Research Foundation for helping us to manage many aspects of a complex enterprise. Over the years, many people worked on this project at both CUNY and Harvard University . They often made substantial contributions, not only to getting the project done but also to the ideas that emerged from it. We had two crack, multilingual teams of in-depth interviewers, one at work from 1998 to 2001 and another who did the re-interviews in 2002–2003. We also had an outstanding team of ethnographers, whose work is presented in Becoming New Yorkers but who also contributed to the analysis in the present volume. We also relied on our data analysts, administrators, and research and editorial assistants—and some people filled multiple roles over the years. Our heartfelt thanks go to Robert Lee Adams, Linda Allegro, Merih Anil, Katsch Belash, Claudio Benzecry, Emily Bolton, Sherri-Ann Butterfield, Alice Cepeda, Karen Chai, Tracy Chu, Randol Contreras, Lauren Dye, Arianna Farinelli, Amy Foerster, Dorothy Friendly, Emily Gan, Alwyn Gilkes, Corina Graif, Christian Grov, Martine Hackett, Luisa Heredia, Diana Hernandez, Joshua Howard, Yvonne Hung, Miriam Jimenez, Yvanne Joseph, Rose Kakoza, Alison Khaskelis, Hosu Kim, Niels Kohlrausch, Sara Lee, Jacob Chong Li Lin, Laura Liu, Vivian Shuh-Ming Louie, Victoria Malkin, Nicole Marwell, Noriko Matsumoto, Monica McDermott , Tracy McFarlane, Tamara Mose Brown, Richard Ocejo, Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky, Jackie Piracini, Giorgio Pirre, Binh Pok, Andrew Reynolds, Michelle Ronda, Wendy Roth, Zoya Simakhodskaya, Ingrid Skadberg, Sarah Song, Audrey Thomas, Rafael Perez Torruela, Alex Trillo, James Trimarco, Debora Upequi, Susannah Vance, Linta Varghese, Natasha Warikoo, Suzanne Washington, and Henry A. Welcome, Jr. viii | Acknowledgments [18.118.1.232] Project MUSE (2024...

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