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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Children of immigrants"”.
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Educational attainment of Black children of immigrants in Canada: Evidence from the Ethnic Diversity Survey
This thesis examines the educational adaptation of children of black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean. The influence of common shared values on the educational attainment of a segment of the new second generation---Black children of immigrants---is explored. The data are drawn from the 2002 …
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Health, health insurance coverage, health care service utilization and family structure among children of immigrants
… barriers to better health and health care among children of immigrants, whose families tend to be highly interdependent and reliant on family cohesion as a survival strategy to manage challenges associated with immigrant status, such as policy restrictions, legal status issues, and linguistic …
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Immigrant-native educational gaps: A systematic inquiry into the schooling of children of immigrants throughout the Italian education system
… provides an empirical inquiry into the schooling of children of immigrants in Italy. Combining two distinct research strands—i.e., studies on immigrant adaptation and research on social stratification—I regard education as a key factor for the structural integration and the chances of social …
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2+2 Doesn't Always Equal 4: A Mixed Methods Approach to U.S.-Born Children of Immigrants' Cultural Identities and Belonging
… adults born in the United States will be a child of immigrants. Despite this, research on children of immigrants is limited. Specifically, the scholarship on this growing demographic limited their experiences to cultural identity, as it pertains to belonging. Simply put, the literature supposes …
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The Significance of 'Traditional' Clothing To Children of Ghanaian Immigrants in Germany
Scholarship on the lives of children of immigrants in Europe has been flourishing in recent years. Different aspects of their lives have been studied, including on the factors that promote or hinder their integration into the host society (such as their educational achievements and access to the …
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The Effect of Community Context on Intergenerational Spanish Maintenance and English Proficiency Among Latina and Latino Children
This analysis produces a better understanding of the specific elements of household and community context that affect language use. The results imply that children of immigrants are following multiple paths to language adaptation, and that metropolitan context is an important influence on this …
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Asian-named minority groups in a British school system: A study of the education of the children of immigrants of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin from the Indian sub-continent or East Africa in the City of Bradford.
… an -interdisciplinary work, a possible exemplar of 'a peace study' (see Appendix 5). It offers an analysis of the situation of the Asian children of immigrant families, socially and racially disadvantaged in Britain, in the Bradford school system from the mid-1970's to 1980*, and their relative …
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Educational attainment in second generation immigrants : creating context for predicting college graduation.
… commonly used variable when looking at outcomes of immigration in the United States. This paper contributes to educational and immigrant research in three ways. First, this paper will account for several dimensions of influence when predicting educational attainment. Second, while college …
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Case and Copular Sentences in Heritage Speakers of Russian
This thesis investigates the language abilities of heritage speakers of Russian (those who learned Russian at home, but later switched to English as their primary language, such as children of immigrants) regarding predicate case alternation in copular sentences. In Russian, predicates of copular …
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The influence of paternal autonomy-support upon ethnic culture identification among second-generation immigrants
Born and raised in the U.S., children of immigrants often face difficult choices between endorsing their family's country of origin (natal culture) and mainstream U.S. society (host culture). Although second generation immigrants desire to fit into the host society, their parents often demand that …
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Family closeness, parental role fulfillment and immigration stress: a study on Filipino American young adults' satisfaction with parental upbringing
… has enabled many Filipinos to meet the needs of their families. However, findings from several studies suggest that immigration also adversely impacts the well-being of immigrant families. Previous research (e.g., Qin, 2006), for instance, shows that immigrant parents’ demanding work schedule …
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Early care and education services utilization among Mexican immigrants in central Illinois
Mexicans represent more than half (65%) of the Latinos in the United States, and Latinos are the largest racial/ethnic minority group (U.S. Bureau, 2011a). Over the last decade, the number of Latino children has increased faster than those of other racial/ethnic groups, and nearly one quarter (22%) …
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The Maintenance Of Ethnic Culture And Manifestations Of Ethnic Identity In The Life Stories Of Finnish Immigrants
This study examined whether Finnish immigrants show evidence of assimilation or if they have maintained their ethnic culture in the United States. More specifically, the purpose was to examine how the ethnic culture has been maintained and the ways that ethnic identity manifests itself in their …
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"Rethinking ""success"" of second generation immigrants: the role of families and communities in the transition to young adulthood"
"Second generation immigrants currently outnumber foreign-born children by more than six to one, a number that doubled in the past decade (Child Trends, 2010). As this contemporary second generation immigrant cohort transitions into adulthood, it will shape considerably the demographics of the …
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Change in Race and Ethnic Stratification: The Roles of Period, Cohort, Immigrant Generation, Socioeconomic Origins and Gender in Shaping Educational Attainment
Education has been the primary means of advancement for immigrants and native-born Americans throughout the 20th century. Despite the overall expansion of the educational system in the United States, not all immigrant groups and even native-born minority groups have achieved comparable levels of …
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Congolese migrant learners' language, literacy and learning in a primary school in Cape Town
When children whose first or home language is a minority language begin their school careers, they are commonly taught through the medium of a majority language for varying purposes, including the requirement that they be assessed in school through the medium of a recognised national language. For …
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Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
… (1796) tracks the development and education of the protagonist from boyhood to manhood. In 20th and 21st century literature, the Bildungsroman structure expands to reflect the diverse cultures, lifestyles, and identities of its readers. Acevedo’s Bildungsroman/“coming-of-age” novel is …
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An Economic Analysis of Children's Behavior and Academic Experiences in Canadian Schools
Using a confidential Canadian dataset of children and youth (National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth), I have provided empirical evidence of the school performance, bullying behavior, and language immersion of children in four chapters of the Ph.D. thesis. In the first chapter, the …
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Contextualizing immigrant adolescents' high school outcomes by their school environments and friend groups.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in combination with conducting hierarchical linear modeling analyses, this dissertation looks at the effects of school environments and friend groups on immigrant …
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IMMIGRANT OPTIMISM: INVESTIGATING COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (ELLS) AT A FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY
… population (ages 5-17) in U.S. schools today is children of immigrants, half of whom do not speak English and are labeled English language learners (ELLs) by th National Center for Education Statistics (2011). Despite this growing demographic shift, very little is known about their college going …
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