Children of Immigration

Informationen zum Autor Carola Suárez-Orozco is Professor of Human Development and Psychology and Co-Director of the Institute for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families at the University of California, Los Angeles. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Distinguished Professor of Education, and Co-Director of the Institute for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 the immigrant children are and what their future might hold. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Varieties of Immigrant Experience 2. Rethinking Immigration 3. The Psychosocial Experience of Immigration 4. Remaking Identities 5. The Children of Immigration in School Epilogue Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: C. Suarez-orozco, CAROLA SUAREZ-OROZCO, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Carola Surez-Orozco
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2002
• EAN: 9780674008380
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00838-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The Developing Child; Developing Child (Paperback); Developing Child
• Subject: Non-fiction book