01932nam a22001937a 4500 20240305113823.0 240305b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0195-6744 Liu, Jia-Lin | Cherng, Hua-Yu Sebastian Breaking the Mold : The One Social Class Model and Saving Face among Undocumented and Mixed-Status Chinese Immigrant Families (Journal Article) Chicago : University of Chicago Press , May 2022 89–117p. American Journal of Education , Volume 128: Number 3, May 2022 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract: Recent studies of immigrant families have called for a reconceptualizing of the influence of social class on education, articulated by the one social class model: White middle-class families possess the cultural capital to foster their social mobility. Focusing on three undocumented and mixed-status Chinese immigrant families in New York City for 3.5 years, we found those who arrived in the United States with the most social class resources fared the worst, whereas those who had less in China were able to persist better. We argue the mechanism underlying this reversal of expected social class patterns is the cultural practice of saving face, which reflects the intersection of social class status, documentation status, and intergenerational acculturation. From this article, we demonstrate understandings of social class among immigrants, especially those of precarious legal status, must expand and incorporate social status experiences prior to immigration, notions of belonging in the United States and being undocumented, and changes through acculturation influence practices that can directly affect mobility. Social Class Model| Social Mobility| Social Class patterns https://doi.org/10.1086/727003 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2024-03-05 0 2024-03-05 00:00:00 2024-03-05 PER 45518 45517