This Special Issue presents original results from the third wave of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study [CILS], a decade-old panelthat followed a large sample of second-generation youths from earlyadolescence to early adulthood. The issue contains results of the thirdsurvey, conducted in 2001/2003 as members of the panel had reached anaverage age of 24. This introduction provides evidence of the importanceof the topic, describes the methodology of the study, and summarizes thecontents of the issue. The following articles examine different aspects ofthe second-generation adaptation process in early adulthood and testsalternative hypotheses on the forms of the process and its determinants. (Description from source)
