Abstract
Global migration has profoundly changed the face of receiving nations, as growing ethnic, racial, and religious diversity is absorbed by domestic populations. Concerns about the successful integration of newcomers places the generation of native-born immigrant children at the forefront of the debate. As this growing population comes of age in Europe and North America, policy makers and researchers view the fate of the second generation as a barometer for the longterm well-being of their ethnic communities in the broader societies in which they have settled.