First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

At the turn of the millennium, the United States has the largest number of immigrants in its history. As a consequence, immigration has emerged once again as a subject of scholarly inquiry and policy debate. This volume brings together the dominant conceptual and theoretical work on the "New Immigration" from such disparate disciplines as anthropology, demography, psychology, and sociology. Immigration today is a global and transnational phenomenon that affects every region of the world with unprecedented force. Although this volume is devoted to scholarly work on the new immigration in the U.S. setting, any of the broader conceptual issues covered here also apply to other post-industrial countries such as France, Germany, and Japan.

During the second half of the Twentieth Century the U.S. experienced a profound demographic transformation. Immigration has become one of the most significant influences on American society. This set will explore the major features of the new immigration, bringing together the major scholarly contributions published in the last decade. and will focus on Latin American, Caribbean and Asian Immigration.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:
Suárez-Orozco, C. and Suárez-Orozco, M. 'Schooling Experiences of the Children of Immigration.' Chapter 5 in Children of Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

Ogbu, J. and Simons, H. 'Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities: A Cultural-ecological Theory of School Performance with Some Implications for Education.' Anthropology and Education Quarterly 29 (1998).

Gibson, M.A. 'Complicating the Immigrant/Involuntary Minority Typology.' Anthropology and Education Quarterly 28 (1997).

Portes, A and Macleod, D. 'Educational Progress of Children of Immigrants: The Roles of Class, Ethnicity and School Context.' Sociology of Education 69 (1996).

Kao, G and Tienda, M. 'Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of Immigrant Youth.' Social Science Quarterly 76 (1995).

Brandon, P. 'Gender Differences in Young Asian American's Educational Attainments.' Sex Roles 25 (1991).

Orfield, G., Bechmeier, M.D., James, D.R. and Eitle, T. 'Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools: A Special Report from the Harvard Project on School Desegregation.' Equity and Excellence in Education (1997).

Donato, R., Menchaca, M. and Valencia, R. 'Segregation, Desegregation and Integration of Chicano Students: Problems and Prospects.' In Richard Valencia, Ed., Chicano School Failure and Success: Research and Policy for the 1990s (London, UK: Falmer, 1991).

Gandara, P. 'The Impact of the Educational Reform Movement on Limited English Proficient Students.' In B. McLeod, Ed., Language and Learning: Educating Linguistically Diverse Students (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994).

Lopez, N. 'The Structural Origins of High School Drop Out Among Second Generation Dominicans in New York City.' Latino Studies Journal 9 (1998).

Waters, Mary. 'Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-generation Black Immigrants in New York City.' International Migration Review 4 (1994).

Matute-Bianchi, M.E. 'Situational Ethnicity and Patterns of School Performance Among Immigrant and Non-immigrant Students.' In M.A. Gibson and J.U. Ogbu, Eds., Minority Status and Schooling (New York, NY: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1991).

Sue, S and Okazaki, S. 'Asian-American Educational Achievements: A Phenomenon in Search of an Explanation.' American Psychologist 45 (1990).

Reese, L., Balzano, S., Gallimore, R. and Goldenberg, C. 'The Concept of Education: Latino Family Values and American Schooling.' International Journal of Education Research 23 (1995).

List of Recommended Readings

During the second half of the Twentieth Century the U.S. experienced a profound demographic transformation. Immigration has become one of the most significant influences on American society. This set will explore the major features of the new immigration, bringing together the major scholarly contributions published in the last decade. and will focus on Latin American, Caribbean and Asian Immigration.

Contents:
Massey, D. 'The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States.' Population and Development Review 21 (1995).

Portes, A. 'Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities.' International Migration Review 31 (1997).

Suárez-Orozco, M. 'Latin American Immigration to the United States.' In V. Bulmer-Thomas and Dunkerly, J. Eds., The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda. (Cambridge, MA: DRCFLAS, Harvard University Press, 1999).

Hing, B. 'Social Forces Unleashed after 1965,' Chapter 3 of Making and Remaking Asian America through Immigration Policy 1850-1990 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993).

Garcia, J.A. 'Caribbean Migration to the Mainland: A Review of Adaptive Experiences.' ANNALS, AAPSS 487 (1986).

Chiswick, B.R. 'Is the New Immigration Less Skilled Than the Old?' Journal of Labor Economics 4 (1986).

Borjas, G.J. 'Reframing the Immigration Debate.' Chapter 1 of Heaven's Door: Immigrant Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).

Cornelius, W. 'The Structural Embeddedness of Demand for Mexican Immigrant Labor.' In Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Ed., Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge, MA: DRCFLAS, Harvard University Press, 1998).

Rumbaut, R.G. 'Ties That Bind: Immigration and Immigration Families in the United States.' In A. Booth, Crouter, A.C. and Landale, N. Eds., Immigration and the Family: Research and Policy on US Immigrants (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1997).

Passel, J.S., Bean, F.D. and Edmonston, B. 'Undocumented Migration Since IRCA: An Overall Assessment.' Chapter 9 in Bean, F.D., B. Edmonston and J.S. Passel, Eds., Undocumented Migration to the United States: IRCA and the Experiences of the 1980s (Washington, Dc: The Urban Institute Press, 1990).

Dominguez, J.I. 'Immigration as Foreign Policy in US-Latin American Relations.' In R.W. Tucker, C.B. Keely and L. Wrigley, Eds., Immigration and US Foreign Policy (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1990).

Rumbaut, R.G. 'Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian Americans.' In P.G. Min, Ed., Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995).

List of Recommended Readings

During the second half of the Twentieth Century the U.S. experienced a profound demographic transformation. Immigration has become one of the most significant influences on American society. This set will explore the major features of the new immigration, bringing together the major scholarly contributions published in the last decade. and will focus on Latin American, Caribbean and Asian Immigration.

Contents:
August, D. and Hakuta, K. 'Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning.' Chapter 2 in Improving Schooling for Language-minority Children: A Research Agenda (Washinton, DC: National Academy Press, 1997).

Snow, C. 'Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition.' In J.B. Gleason and N.B. Ratner, Eds., Psycholinguistics (Fort Worth, TX: Hartcourt Brace, 1993).

Collier, V.P. 'How Long? A Synthesis of the Research on Academic Achievement in a Second Language.' TESOL Quarterly 23 (1989).

Commins, J. 'Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children.' Review of Educational Research 49 (1979).

Willig, A. 'A Meta-analysis of Selected Studies on the Effectivness of Bilingual Education.' Review of Educational Research 55 (1985).

Valdes, G. 'The World Outside and Inside Schools: Language and Immigrant Children.' Educational Research 27 (1998).

Bankston, C.L. and Zhou, M. 'Effects of Minority-language Literacy on the Academic Achievement of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans.' Sociology of Education 68 (1995).

Wong Fillmore, L. 'When Learning a Language Means Losing the First.' Early Childhood Research Quarterly 6 (1991).

Portes, A. and Hao, L. 'English First or English Only? Bilingualism and Loss of Language in the Second Generation.' Sociology of Education 71 (1998).

Pease-Alvarez, L. and Hakuta, K. 'Perspectives on Language Maintenance and Shift in Mexican-origin Students.' In P. Phelan and A.L. Davidson, Eds., Renegotiating Cultural Diversity in American Schools (New York, NY: Teacher's College, Columbia University, 1993).

Tse, L. 'Language Brokering Among Latino Adolescents: Prevalence, Attitudes and School Performance.' Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 17 (1995).

Padilla, A., Lindholm, K., Chen, A., Duran, R., Hakuta, K., Lambert, W. and Tucker, G.R. 'The English-only Movement: Myth, Reality and Implications for Psychology.' American Psychologist 46 (1991).

List of Recommended Readings

In an age of catastrophes-unchecked climate change, extreme poverty, forced migrations, war, and terror, all compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic-how can schooling be reengineered and education reimagined? This book calls for a new global approach to education that responds to these overlapping crises in order to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco convene scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines-including anthropology, neuroscience, demography, psychology, child development, sociology, and economics-who offer incisive essays on the global state of education. Contributors consider how educational policy and practice can foster social inclusion and improve outcomes for all children. They emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education and its centrality to human flourishing, personal dignity, and sustainable development. Chapters examine topics such as the neuroscience of education; the uses of technology to engage children who are not reached by traditional schooling; education for climate change; the education of immigrants, refugees, and the forcibly displaced; and how to address and mitigate the effects of inequality and xenophobia in the classroom. Global and interdisciplinary, Education speaks directly to urgent contemporary challenges. Contributors include Stefania Giannini, the director of education for UNESCO; development economist Jeffrey Sachs; cognitive psychologist Howard Gardner; Carla Rinaldi, president of the Reggio Children Foundation; and academics from leading global universities. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.

Winner Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence Immigration to the United States has reached historic numbers- 25 percent of children under the age of 18 have an immigrant parent, and this number is projected to grow to one in three by 2050. These children have become a significant part of our national tapestry, and how they fare is deeply intertwined with the future of our nation. Immigrant children and the children of immigrants face unique developmental challenges. Navigating two distinct cultures at once, immigrant-origin children have no expert guides to lead them through the process. Instead, they find themselves acting as guides for their parents. How are immigrant children like all other children, and how are they unique? What challenges as well as what opportunities do their circumstances present for their development? What characteristics are they likely to share because they have immigrant parents, and what characteristics are unique to specific groups of origin? How are children of first-generation immigrants different from those of second-generation immigrants? Transitions offers comprehensive coverage of the field's best scholarship on the development of immigrant children, providing an overview of what the field needs to know-or at least systematically begin to ask-about the immigrant child and adolescent from a developmental perspective. This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective to consider how personal, social, and structural factors interact to determine a variety of trajectories of development. The editors have curated contributions from experts across a carefully selected variety of topics covering ecologies, processes, and outcomes of development pertinent to immigrant origin children.

In an age of catastrophes-unchecked climate change, extreme poverty, forced migrations, war, and terror, all compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic-how can schooling be reengineered and education reimagined? This book calls for a new global approach to education that responds to these overlapping crises in order to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco convene scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines-including anthropology, neuroscience, demography, psychology, child development, sociology, and economics-who offer incisive essays on the global state of education. Contributors consider how educational policy and practice can foster social inclusion and improve outcomes for all children. They emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education and its centrality to human flourishing, personal dignity, and sustainable development. Chapters examine topics such as the neuroscience of education; the uses of technology to engage children who are not reached by traditional schooling; education for climate change; the education of immigrants, refugees, and the forcibly displaced; and how to address and mitigate the effects of inequality and xenophobia in the classroom. Global and interdisciplinary, Education speaks directly to urgent contemporary challenges. Contributors include Stefania Giannini, the director of education for UNESCO; development economist Jeffrey Sachs; cognitive psychologist Howard Gardner; Carla Rinaldi, president of the Reggio Children Foundation; and academics from leading global universities. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.

One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Very few will return to the country they barely remember. Who are they, and what America do they know?

Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants. Richly told portraits of high and low achievers are packed with unexpected ironies. When they arrive, most children are full of optimism and a respect for education. But poor neighborhoods and dull--often dangerous--schools can corrode hopes. The vast majority learn English--but it is the English of video games and the neighborhood, not that of standardized tests.

For some of these children, those heading off to college, America promises to be a land of dreams. These lucky ones have often benefited from caring mentors, supportive teachers, or savvy parents. For others, the first five years are marked by disappointments, frustrations, and disenchantment. How can we explain their varied academic journeys?

The children of immigrants, here to stay, are the future--and how they adapt will determine the nature of America in the twenty-first century.

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.