My family would fall into this, and many of our social circle too. Indian immigrants, parents qualifications not recognised, eduction is the route out of poverty. Parents manual workers, children successful professional careers.
We are not East Asian but I have observed that in that community, yes the astonishing success is recovering the status lost by the forced migration.
In my case, Parents were manual workers, children got assisted places and scholarships to independent schools, Oxbridge and professional careers, The assisted places was luck - a primary school head who told my mother her children would be eaten alive at the local comprehensive secondary and the test dates.
Luck to live near to a highly academic independent school
For me, my parents made it clear that they had made sacrifices for our education and we were to keep up our side of the bargain by working hard. We worked hard. I worked for 2 hours in a shop every day after school, plus all day Saturday to the horror of my teachers who said I needed to focus on my studies. My parents said if my grades ever went below an A then they would consider stopping the paid work but until then I could do both. I knew I would need that money for university.
It was also a dysfunctional and unhappy home and I knew from a young age that university was my ticket out - to leave and never return. There was a lot of trauma.
Parents had experienced racism and drummed it into us we would always have to work twice as hard to get anywhere , no connections or family money to rely on.
I always had a drive for self improvement, my sisters and I were known for being very clever, there was some sibling rivalry but more it pushed the younger ones, who weren’t as academically gifted on as the expectations of what was achievable had been set (which causes other problems)