Intersecting Inequalities: Research to Reduce Inequality for Immigrant-Origin Children and Youth

Autor/inn/en	Suárez-Orozco, Carola; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Tseng, Vivian
Institution	William T. Grant Foundation
Titel	Intersecting Inequalities: Research to Reduce Inequality for Immigrant-Origin Children and Youth
Quelle	(2015), (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Children; Disadvantaged Youth; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Employment; Poverty; Racial Bias; Status; English Language Learners; Undocumented Immigrants; Equal Education; Poverty Programs; Human Capital; Inclusion; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Educational Assessment; Access to Education; Postsecondary Education; Educational Policy; Student Adjustment; Research; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Dienstverhältnis; Armut; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Illegaler Aufenthalt; Armenfürsorge; Humankapital; Inklusion; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Forschung
Abstract	As immigration has reached historic numbers in the United States, immigrant children have become an integral part of the national tapestry. While immigration has grown across all post-industrial nations, inequality has risen at a steep rate on a variety of indicators, including income distribution, child poverty, residential segregation, and numerous academic outcomes. Among the children of immigrants, inequality is manifested against a backdrop of wide disparity in post-migration conditions faced by new immigrants. While many immigrant-origin youth successfully acclimate to their new land, faring as well as or even better than their native same-ethnicity peers, others face significant challenges in their educational and psychosocial adaptation. Most at risk are youth at the intersection of multiple types of disadvantage, namely low parent education and employment, poverty, newcomer status, language barriers, racialization, and undocumented status. This paper reviews what current research tells us about how inequality of opportunities and outcomes plays out along these six dimensions for immigrant-origin children and youth. The paper focuses on two proximal contexts of development that are key to alleviating unequal opportunities and outcomes: education and family. The authors recommend areas of future research that may inform policies, programs, and practices to reduce inequality for immigrant-origin children and youth. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01