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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Immigrant Youth"”.
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Acculturation and Mental Health in Chinese Immigrant Youth
… social support on the mental health of Chinese immigrant adolescents. Study participants included 81 first generation Chinese immigrant adolescents. Mental health was operationalized using the BASC emotional symptoms index and somatization score. As hypothesized, acculturative stress and …
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Racial Identity, Acculturation, and Well-Being among Black Canadian Immigrant Youth
… acculturation looks like for Black Canadian immigrants using a tridimensional model of acculturation (Ferguson, Bornstein, & Pottinger, 2012), as well as how Black Canadian immigrants conceptualize their racial identity. Participants were 120 first and second generation Black Canadians with …
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Identity Perception of Chinese Immigrant Youth at a Mandarin Bilingual School
This study explored identity perception of youth from Chinese backgrounds in the context of a Mandarin/English bilingual education program in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The study was based on the theory proposed by Grosjean (2015) on bilingualism and biculturalism, together with bilingual identity …
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… project centers on the advocacy of undocumented immigrant youth to realize the passage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a narrowly tailored bipartisan legislation that would provide qualifying undocumented youth a pathway to citizenship. Using a Latino/a …
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Making Transnational Adults From Youth: Mexican Immigrant Youth in Pursuit of the Mexican Dream
… examines the lives of recently-arrived Mexican immigrant youth who arrive to New York City from both rural and urban Mexico, and either enter into formal school settings, or remain out of these settings, foregoing formal schooling altogether or entering into non-formal educational institutions. …
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Walking Alongside: Moral Distress and Accompaniment in Social Work Practice with Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth
… are instrumental in supporting unaccompanied youth seeking refuge in the United States. And yet, little scholarly attention has been given to the distress or the endurance of social workers working with unaccompanied youth. Through analysis of 21 participant interviews with social workers who …
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Aspiring to Citizenship: African Immigrant Youth and Civic Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
… addresses the question how do African immigrant youth experience life and live as ‘citizens 'in Cape Town? African immigrant youth straddle multiple positions, localities and identities: insider, outsider, victim, perpetrator, dependent, independent, child, adult. This dissertation …
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Understanding What Matters Most to Immigrant Youth Living with Mental Health Concerns: A Community Priority Setting Activity in Alberta
… concerns affect about one in five Canadian youth. Youth make up 19.2% of the Canadian population and according to Statistics Canada (2016), 37.5% of these Canadian youth belong to immigrant families. With an immigrant identity, the experience of displacement, trauma, stigma, and racism can …
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Balancing Two Worlds: Female Indo-Fijian Immigrant Youth in Their Public and Private Domains and the Emergence of the New Hybridity
… With such an increase it is vital to understand immigrant youth experiences in terms of how they express their national and cultural identity, how they negotiate different expectations of their host and homeland cultures, and how they identify themselves at a personal level. Many immigrant youths …
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I Do Activist Things Even Though I'm Nothing: A Critical Ethnography of Immigrant Youth Identity Formation in an Urban Community-School
<p>This dissertation explores how Latino immigrant youth make sense out of their educational experience, identity, and sense of belonging in an urban, public high school. This critical ethnography examines their social interactions. The youth live in a segregated neighborhood that is largely …
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Immigrants Facing Immigration Policy: State Laws Regulating Eligibility For In-State Tuition And Belonging Among Immigrant Youth In The United States
<p>This dissertation focuses on new paths of immigrant incorporation and on the political mobilization of undocumented youths in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. The goal of this investigation is to assess whether contrasting state laws that either open or restrict eligibility for …
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Analyzing Best Practices in the Schooling of Secondary-Level Latino Newcomer Immigrant Youth: A Comparison Study of Two Yearlong Specialized Programs
… specifically to educate secondary-level newcomer immigrant youth within one large, urban school district in Southern California. The two divergent secondary-level programs that are compared in this study, a self-contained newcomer program and a beginning level English as a Second Language program …
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"These Rights Go Beyond Borders and Pieces of Paper": Urban High School Teachers and Newcomer Immigrant Youth Engaging in Human Rights Education
… and tenth grade teachers and their newcomer immigrant students engaged in HRE using elements of critical pedagogy at an urban pubic high school. Research data included eight months of classroom observations and interviews with two teachers and nineteen of their students across four of their …
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“What is racism in the new EU anyway?” Examining and comparing the perceptions of British ‘minority ethnic’ and Eastern European ‘immigrant’ youth in Buckinghamshire
… European citizens of member states now assume immigrant status and co-exist in countries with pre-existing immigrant communities that have affiliations to the former British Empire. With demographic composition changes of immigrant communities in Europe, difference and discrimination of …
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Education, occupation and family patterns of second generation immigrant youth in the U.S.: the importance of embeddedness in social relationships in the transition to adulthood
… over the next forty years will come from immigrants and their U.S.-born children. While many immigrant youth face similar challenges, they also vary substantially in their access to family and institutional resources which may influence their ability to make a successful transition to …
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From huelga! to undocumented and unafraid! : a comparative study of media strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
… Movement of the 1960s and the contemporary Immigrant Youth Movement, this work examines media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors. With a grounded approach that incorporates participant observation, semi-structured interviews, archival research, and …
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Examining Acculturation Strategies in Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Mixed Methods Approach to Arts-Informed Research
… and mental plight of immigration plagues immigrants and refugees of all ages. Nonetheless, immigrant youth are commonly overlooked in acculturation studies. This mixed methods approach to arts-informed research examined the acculturation strategies adopted by immigrant and refugee youth …
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Exploring the circumstances and experiences of youth immigrants when establishing and running a successful informal micro-business
In the era of rampant youth unemployment, governments are rethinking strategies to respond to this global crisis. At the centre of these strategies is the promotion of youth-owned informal micro-businesses. While literature acknowledges the challenges faced by youth in running their informal …
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From Mainstream to East African Charter: East African Muslim Students’ Experiences in U.S. Schools
It is in schools where immigrant and refugee youth most directly encounter the dominant and competing cultures of their new society. As youth interface with these cultures, schools become central places for youth to explore the meaning of their own identity and who they are in relation to others. …
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Aesthetic Citizenship: Popular Culture, Migrant Youth, and the Making of 'World Class' Delhi
… how recent international and intranational immigrant youth who have come to Delhi to partake in its economic possibilities and, in some cases, to escape political uncertainty, are utilizing globally circulating popular cultural forms to make themselves visible in a moment when the city …
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