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I literally addressed this when the discussion started: Yes, there were isolated communities like china towns. But the china towns were very few. With mexican immigrants we have a wide spread, but still concentrated settling pattern that stems from the mexican border across the South and western parts of the state.
No, you've only addressed half of what I said. I said they were either in ghettos *or* lived together in work camps. IOW, your claim that they were isolated from each other has no substantiation.
Do you even read or think about what you are responding to? Your paper is talking about successive generations from higher educated immigrant groups. Recent immagrant groups, as is outlined in the dat I provided, are less educated now, and they are failing to perform better than past populations, like the parents of the groups your paper is talking about. This means the current group of immigrants will have successive generations that perform below that threshold. Since economic assimilation is directly tied to the education and earning potential of their parents
As the paper I posted shows, the gaps decreases with succeeding generations. Your claim that "he current group of immigrants will have successive generations that perform below that threshold" is completely contradicted by my link.