Immigrant Generations - in The United States

In The United States

  1. First generation immigrant : immigrant youth who migrated to the U.S.
  2. Second generation immigrant: U.S.-born children of at least one foreign-born parent.
  3. Third generation immigrant : U.S.-born children of two U.S.-born parents, where at least one grandparent is foreign-born.

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