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The Half-way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne. By J. H. Taylor. Windsor, England: NFER Publishing Co., 1976. 267 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $13.25 (paper). (Dist. by Humanities Press)

Taylor's study of school-age (fourteen to twenty-one years old) Indian and Pakistani youth in the Newcastle area of England is a commendable effort to discover what occupational and educational achievements have been made by the "half-way" generation, his term for children born abroad but raised in England. Basically, it is an updated presentation of a 1968 study of differential educational and employment achievement, utilizing a 67-person sample of South Asian males (26 Sikhs, 26 Muslims, 15 Hindus). Three-quarters of the group came from the Punjab region. A matched group of English boys were selected for comparative purposes. Taylor's major conclusion is that "Asians do better in school," as evidenced by the fact that 24% of the South Asians in his sample were continuing in higher education after leaving secondary school, whereas only 14% of the British boys had done so. Whatever the implications of this educational achievement, the real value of the study lies in the wealth of material on cultural views and normative values that came to light in the course of Taylor's interviews. Several South Asian migration patterns emerge from the data; chainmigration, economic cooperation, self-employment in small-scale mercantile businesses, employment reference networks, strong family-centered kin groups and intergenerational tension over conflicting values are noted. Such patterns seem quite similar to behavioral clusters observed in other overseas South Asian communities in Canada, the United States, Fiji, and many other areas. In one sense, this community is a microcosm generally reflective of many South Asian passenger migration situations.