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Immigrant Children - Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation (Paperback)
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Immigrant Children - Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation (Paperback)
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Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many
countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly
transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant
families into North America. As children lead the way for a "new"
North America, this group of children and youth is not a singular
homogenous group but rather, a mosaic and diverse ethnic, racial,
and cultural group. Thus, our current understanding of "normative
development" (covering social, psychological, cognitive, language,
academic, and behavioral development), which has been generally
based on middle-class Euro-American children, may not necessarily
be "optimal" development for all children. Researchers are widely
recognizing that the theoretical frameworks and models of child
development lack the sociocultural and ethnic sensitivities to the
ways in which developmental processes operate in an ecological
context. As researchers progress and develop promising forms of
methodological innovation to further our understanding of immigrant
children, little effort has been placed to collectively organize a
group of scholarly work in a coherent manner. Some researchers who
examine ethnic minority children tended to have ethnocentric
notions of normative development. Thus, some ethnic minority groups
are understood within a "deficit model" with a limited scope of
topics of interest. Moreover, few researchers have specifically
investigated the acculturation process for children and the
implications for cultural socialization of children by ethnic
group. This book represents a group of leading scholars'
cutting-edge research which will not only move our understanding
forward but also to open up new possibilities for research,
providing innovative methodologies in examining this complex and
dynamic group. Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural
Transformation will also take the research lead in guiding our
current knowledge of how development is influenced by a variety of
sociocultural factors, placing future research in a better position
to probe inherent principles of child development. In sum, this
book will provide readers with a richer and more comprehensive
approach of how researchers, social service providers, and social
policymakers can examine children and immigration.
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