Uprooting children: mobility, social capital, and Mexican American underachievement

Ch. 1. Introduction

Ch. 2. The achievement gap, social capital and mobility : an overview

Ch. 3. Mixed-methods research design

Ch. 4. Test-score performance and rates of mobility by socioeconomic and nativity status

Ch. 5. Group-level differences in the Availability of social capital by socioeconomic and nativity status

Ch. 6. Informal social networks and the Mobility Social Capital Dynamic

Ch. 7. Formal social networks : the Mobility Social Capital Dynamic and the "downside" of social capital

Ch. 8. Summary of findings and recommendations

App. A. NELS:88 variables considered in the development of composite and latent measures of social capital.