Children of ImmigrationHarvard University Press, 30 de juny 2009 - 218 pàgines Now in the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, America, mythical land of immigrants, is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role in reworking the fabric of the nation. At the center of this prospect are the children of immigrants, who make up one fifth of America's youth. This book, written by the codirectors of the largest ongoing longitudinal study of immigrant children and their families, offers a clear, broad, interdisciplinary view of who these children are and what their future might hold. For immigrant children, the authors write, it is the best of times and the worst. These children are more likely than any previous generation of immigrants to end up in Ivy League universities--or unschooled, on parole, or in prison. Most arrive as motivated students, respectful of authority and quick to learn English. Yet, at the same time, many face huge obstacles to success, such as poverty, prejudice, the trauma of immigration itself, and exposure to the materialistic, hedonistic world of their native-born peers. The authors vividly describe how forces within and outside the family shape these children's developing sense of identity and their ambivalent relationship with their adopted country. Their book demonstrates how "Americanization," long an immigrant ideal, has, in a nation so diverse and full of contradictions, become ever harder to define, let alone achieve. |
Continguts
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1 The Varieties of Immigrant Experience | 16 |
2 Rethinking Immigration | 36 |
3 The Psychosocial Experience of Immigration | 66 |
4 Remaking Identities | 87 |
5 The Children of Immigration in School | 124 |
Epilogue | 154 |
Notes | 163 |
References | 185 |
Index | 203 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Children of Immigration Carola Suárez-Orozco,Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
Children of Immigration Carola Suárez-Orozco,Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco Visualització de fragments - 2001 |
Children of Immigration Carola Su?rez-Orozco,Marcelo Su'arez-Orozco Visualització de fragments - 2001 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 39 - If the United States is the melting pot, something is wrong with the heating system, for an inconveniently large portion of the new immigration floats around in unsightly indigestible lumps. Of recent years, the contents of the melting pot have stood badly in need of straining in order that the refuse might be removed and deposited in the customary receptacle for such things
Pàgina 40 - That they have suffered and are suffering economic hardship caused by the presence of illegal aliens in this state. That they have suffered and are suffering personal injury and damage caused by the criminal conduct of illegal aliens in this state.
Pàgina 5 - Rumbaut writes: an important finding supporting our earlier reported research is the negative association of length of residence in the United States with both GPA and aspirations. Time in the United States is, as expected, strongly predictive of improved English reading skills; but despite that seeming advantage, longer residence in the United States and...
Pàgina 62 - Instead of a relatively uniform mainstream whose mores and prejudices dictate a common path of integration, we observe today several distinct forms of adaptation. One of them replicates the time-honored portrayal of growing acculturation and parallel integration into the white middle-class; a second leads straight in the opposite direction to permanent poverty and assimilation into the underclass; still a third associates rapid economic advancement with deliberate preservation of the immigrant community's...
Pàgina 153 - ... have just been given far too great an honor, one I neither sought nor solicited. But when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you. Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching, and your example, none of all this would have happened. I don't make too much of this sort of honor. But at least it gives me an opportunity to tell you what you have been and still are for me...
Pàgina 85 - Social companionship also serves to maintain and enhance self-esteem and provides much needed acceptance and approval. A well-functioning social support network, quite predictably, is closely linked to better adjustment to the new environment. Of course, in part, the availability of an effective social support structure will be influenced by the individuals' pre-existing social competence. Individuals with highly developed social skills are likely to be better able to establish and draw upon interpersonal...
Pàgina 40 - November 1994, California voters overwhelmingly approved this proposition, known as the 'Save our State' initiative. This initiative was designed to 'prevent illegal aliens in the United States from receiving benefits or public services in the State of California' (Proposition 187 1994:91) including emergency medical services and education for children.
Pàgina 5 - The researchers pointed out that these finding are "counterintuitive" in light of the racial or ethnic minority status, overall lower socioeconomic status, and higher poverty rates that characterize many immigrant children and families that they studied. They also found that the longer youth were in the United States, the poorer their overall physical and psychological health. Furthermore, the more "Americanized...
Pàgina 83 - Immigrants of middle-class backgrounds often experience significant losses in prestige: they frequently find employment in positions far below their training and qualifications because of language difficulties, lack of connections, or lack of certification in certain professions. In addition middle-class immigrants may suffer for the first time the painful experience of prejudice and discrimination in the new country. The poorest immigrants, who are largely members of the lower classes in their country...
Referències a aquest llibre
City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education Pedro Noguera Previsualització limitada - 2003 |
The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco,Carola Suárez-Orozco,Desirée Qin-Hilliard Previsualització no disponible - 2005 |