Very young immigrant children are analytically collapsed into the second generation

Evidence

Ruben Rumbaut offers the designation “1.75 generation” to highlight the “different development stages and social contexts of children who immigrate at ages 0-5” (1997, p. 950). Nonetheless, in the literature on immigrant generations, children like Javad, who were born in their respective countries of origin but moved to the United States as very young children, are more often collapsed into the “second generation” alongside American-born children of immigrants. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 681

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the ‘1.75 generation’ micro-category and its collapse in literature — a useful precision on generational cohort labels.
• XREF: Relevant to The Namesake and Home Boy, both about immigrant generation identity formation.